Re: Ground - where should it stop?

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

In a message dated 4/26/01 6:54:58 PM Eastern Daylight Time, tesla-at-pupman-dot-com 
writes: 




>
> Original poster: "Matt S. by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" < 
> matt777777-at-hotmail-dot-com> 
>
> I have another question that I was hoping for some help with... (thanks to 
> all who responded to my lest one). 
> I have seen conflicting (to me) information on where to stop the house 
> ground. 
> I am planning on running it (the house ground) up to my variac/controller 
> cabinet, and then I am unsure of whether to run it through the (relatively 
> long) cord to my NST(s) or not.  I will be grounding my secondary and the 
> center of my safety gap (and strike rail) to a (separate) RF ground (buried 
> Cu pipes) 
> ---------so, my question is.... should the house ground be run to the NST 
> ground terminal on the input side or should it stop at the controller cab. 
> with the RF ground hooked up to the NST ground terminal? 
> (I am hoping to have my NSTs right under the primary  - i.e. in harm's way 
> sort of). 
> Thanks in advance - I have no doubt that this has been asked before, but 
> there are so many occurances of "ground" in the archives, it could take 
> days 
> to find..(!) 
> Matt 
>


Hi Matt (Heimat?) 

I would do as you suggested. Keep the house ground away from the coil. The 
fewer wires going to the coil, the fewer to act as unwanted antennas for the 
RF. 

My dos centavos 
Matt D.