Re: NST Grounding

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Original poster: "Erik Kettenburg by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <missyrat-at-pacbell-dot-net>

Can I run it to the SAME ground rod as my secondary though?
Erik
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Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 5:23 PM
Subject: Re: NST Grounding


> 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
>
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>
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