Re: Secondary groundig to earth

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

Hi Chris, 
   Welcome to the fun!   What you have will work.   your copper plate is acting
as a 'counterpoise'.   A counterpoise is an alternative to grounding the
secondary because it acts and  plate of a the secondary capacitance. The
topload is the other plate - ignoring the coil's self capacitance for the
moment. 
Mike 


>
> I am a new coiler and i was wondering.....When ground my secondary to the 
> earth, is it necessary to put conductive stakes actually into the ground. 
> Because right now I have a copper plate underneath the enclosure i made that
> my 
> coil is, and that lies flat on the groun.  Is this enough? 
>