Re: School demo

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Original poster: "Jim Lux by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <jimlux-at-earthlink-dot-net>

The chicken wire thing works great for an RF ground. It's close to the
coil, low impedance connection, etc.  You should ALSO ground it to the
green wire ground for safety (in case, for instance, you get a short to the
RF ground from the HV secondary or the line voltage.  That ground
connection could be fairly high impedance (like, it could go through a
choke, if you are worried about feeding RF back into the building wiring).


Tesla list wrote:
> 
> Original poster: "Shaun Epp by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<scepp-at-mts-dot-net>
> 
> Neet idea, I wanted to do the same soon when I get my almost ready coil
> finished.  What do we coilers do about the secondary RF ground?  can we
> use
> a 4 x 4 piece of chicken wire under the coil and connected to RF ground,
> should we also connect it to building ground via the green wire?
> 
> I know the thing I'd do is to stress safty and how dangerous it can be if
> touched or approached and stress to everyone watching that you, to
> operator( and maybe a trusted assistant)  is the only one to operate the
> switch and approach to coil while operating and after.
> 
> All the Best,
> 
> Shaun Epp