Re: quick trial...no luck terry

["Luc" <ludev-at-videotron.ca> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)]

Hi Danny

For testing ground I measure the voltage between the house ground and the live
and compare it with the voltage between the new ground and the live after I
plug
a 250 watt lamp again between my ground and the live and cheek the brightness.

May be a trick for you when  I built a coil and I want to tune it I ALWAYS
start
with a 100 Watt  in Seri with the transfo tune the system put a 250 Watt in
parallel  with the 100W make correction  ( gap spacing, fine tuning, etc. ) put
a 1000W quartz ... and finely put all the juice. I don't know why but it
seem to
be easier than with a variarc. With that procedure you have less chance to
broke
something.

I hope I  help.

Luc Benard(Montreal)

Tesla list wrote:

> Original poster: Hollmike-at-aol-dot-com
>
> In a message dated 7/28/2000 10:45:23 PM Mountain Daylight Time,
> tesla-at-pupman-dot-com writes:
>
> > is there a way to test out how good that grounding rod is
> >  working?     -danny
> >
> There are devices made for testing grounds.  I think they are called
> "meggers" and apply a voltage to your ground and using metal stakes placed
> several feet away a voltage difference can be read and the ground's
> resistance can be estimated.  Being that they are not something you would see
> every day, you might get a better idea from others on the list.
> Mike