Re: NST Grounding

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Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>

Hi Eric,

"I" would ground the NST case to the ground rod and connect the variac and such
to the AC ground.  I would not run a ground wire between the variac and NST. 
There are different opinions on this but this is mine.

Strike rails and such should go to the ground rod.  The ground rod can easily
handle the high frequency RF.  The AC ground is very poor at RF but good for
60Hz safety.

Cheers,

        Terry


At 12:12 PM 11/21/2001 -0800, you wrote: 
>
> I building a coil with an NST 12kv/30ma and I'm wondering if I should ground
> the NST to my 6ft grounding rod that my 2ndary is gonna be grounded to or if
> I should ground it to the AC ground, also should I use safety gaps on the NST
> and spark gap and if so how do I know how big (space in gap) to make those
> Can a strike rail and farday cage be grounded to the same rod as the
> secondary?
> Thanx
> Erik