Re: GroundvrsSprnkler

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Original poster: "rheidlebaugh by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <rheidlebaugh-at-zialink-dot-com>

CD: MY FATHER SAID NEVER  SAY CANT. DOOR KNOBS CAN TALK IF GIVEM THE RIGHT
CIRCUMSTANCES. The probability that your coil cased a problem is very small.
We could speculate and ask questions like is plastic pipe used etc, but it
is not likely you caused the problem. Valve failure in sprinkler systems is
an annual problem.
   Robert  H

> From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 14:14:58 -0600
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> Subject: GroundvrsSprnkler
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> Resent-Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 14:15:40 -0600
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> Original poster: "cd by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
> <vbprg1-at-hotmail-dot-com>
> 
> Ok I have a question I have been wondering for about a week or 2. I probably
> should address this before I run again..
> 
> My parents have an inground sprinkler system. The primary control boxes are
> located near my tesla coil testing area and I have been unpluging them when
> I run.
> Except about a day or so after my last run one of the sprinklers #5 on the
> second box refused to shut off until I shut down the valve allowing water
> into the sytem. I was at first bumming thinking I had downed the system with
> some stray EM energy, but after some later consideration thought maybe it
> was something else, since I had unpluged them. When the sprinkler guy
> arrived he confirmed my supspicions at first, and stated that it was a valve
> in the system. Ok so I was curios I stuck around, and much to my suprise the
> guy took a EM detection device out. A black plastic egg on a long cord
> attached to a Multimeter type readout. He then setup a pulsing current
> running though the sprinkler system, and proceeded to trapse back and forth
> across my yard while swinging the egg back and forth. When the thing made
> the right type of clicks he grabed a shovel and dug down to a small box.
> The box was an electricaly controled valve switching device. Burried under
> ground about 30 feet from my TC ground. My ground is about 5 or 6 feet of
> copper pipe driven into the ground, I got lucky it was like hammering the
> thing into butter and the top of the pipe is barely deformed. It is located
> about 30 feet from the box that malfuctioned and an unknown distance from
> any number of other wierd sprinkler boxes I was untill recently un aware
> of...
> 
> Could my coil have downed this mysterious burried electrical box?
> Is it safe for me drop current into ground near one of these things?
> 
> 
> Thanks
> Chris Dowdy
> "Originally getting it effiently down into the ground was my only concern"
> 
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