RE: My Basement ground system: Your opinions

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Original poster: "C.L. Mayeux by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <poohbear1961-at-cox-dot-net>


Hot water pipes are NEVER a good source of ground.
The "continuity" you detect is picking up ground
after passing through a lot of other things.

For a better ground, either find a COLD water pipe,
or drive a ground rod outside, and bring it in via
a contiguous length of #6 or #4 solid copper wire.

My preference is the ground rod.

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> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 12:06 AM
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> Subject: My Basement ground system: Your opinions
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> Original poster: "Dave Hartwick by way of Terry Fritz
> <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <ddhartwick-at-earthlink-dot-net>
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> Our basement incorporates as its heating system a series of
> hot-water pipes
> that are imbedded in the concrete slab. Constructed some 40 years ago, I
> have the blueprints to this system and the piping within the concrete slab
> is extensive.
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> My thinking is that this constitutes a rather fine main RF ground
> system for
> Tesla Coils. There is continuity between this system and the rest of the
> cold and hot water plumbing.
>
> What is your assessment of this RF ground?
> Dave Hartwick
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