Re: frozen ground ground

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

Water main is better, probably because the water main goes a long, long
distance, and actually serves as the ground plane, itself.


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Sent: Sunday, December 08, 2002 10:11 AM
Subject: Re: frozen ground ground


 > Original poster: "Ed Phillips by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<evp-at-pacbell-dot-net>
 >
 > Tesla list wrote:
 >  >
 >  > Original poster: "kent by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
 > <toyhatsu-at-pcisys-dot-net>
 >  >
 >  > Matt,
 >  >
 >  > I can't remember who I got this from (maybe a Richard Quick post) and I
 >  > appologise to that person.  Use a 6-8 foot piece of 1/2 or 3/4 inch
copper
 >  > water pipe and lead solder a standard copper faucet connection on the
end.
 >  > Attach a garden hose to the connection  and the other end to a hot
water tap
 >  > (for winter).  If I remember right it is very easy to push the copper
pipe
 >  > in the ground as the water displaces the dirt on the way down.
 >  >
 >  > Hope this helps,
 >  > Kent
 >
 > That does indeed work fine, and I've used it here.  The problem comes
 > when you encounter a rock which won't dissolve in water!  We have lots
 > of those too, unfortunately.  I'll report my sad tale of ground rods for
 > my 160 meter tower.  I have four 8' rods driven into the ground with
 > great effort.  The resistance between them measures about 600 ohms
 > according to an ohmmeter, and when I hook a 100 w bulb between the hot
 > side of the AC line and one of these rods it glows visibly, but dimly.
 > Wasn't anywhere near as satisfactory as connecting to the water main.
 >
 > Ed
 >
 >