Re: Newbie with a few questions...

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Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <A123X-at-aol-dot-com>

I'm pretty new at coiling myself  so I can't really answer your questions, 
but I wanted to point out that you could try running it as a bipolar coil. 
You could also try running it as a twin coil, I ran my first small ignition 
coil powered coil as a bipolar coil some but just using each end seperate, 
rather than arcing to each other. The performance wasn't any better than 
using a cheap ground like you use, but it wasn't run from a very good power 
supply. Perhaps a twin coil could be ran far enough away so  it doesn't arc 
to each other. 

In a message dated 4/8/01 7:49:49 PM Eastern Daylight Time, tesla-at-pupman-dot-com 
writes: 


>
> Last night I finally tested it and was only getting about 1" sparks, with 
> or without various toploads. :(  My problem is I'm in a second story 
> apartment and can't ground the darn thing anywhere. Don't want to use 
> the line ground, and don't want to use a cold water pipe, ( and I believe 
> it goes to plastic downstairs anyway ) so all I was using for a "pseudo" 
> ground was about 80' of 10 gauge wire strewn out about the floor in my 
> place. 
> The coil is very low power (1) 10kV 23ma OBIT, would it be safe 
> to try to ground the secondary to the ground in my wall?  Or does anyone 
> else have any ideas on how I could ground this sucker? (short of dropping 
> wire down outside my window to a ground rod in the flower garden where 
> my manager sees and comes knocking on me door)