Re: RF Ground, House Ground, Ground....

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

Tesla list wrote:

> Original poster: "Steven Ward by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<srward16-at-hotmail-dot-com>

>>From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
>>To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
>>Subject: RF Ground, House Ground, Ground....
>>Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2002 08:12:53 -0600

>>Original poster: "Matt Woody Meyer by way of Terry Fritz 
>><twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <meyerml-at-stolaf.edu>

>>Just for clarification sake, I'm curious if there's any major difference
>>between the RF ground that you're all using and mine.

>>My ground is simply a long copper tube driven a good 6-8"


	'long' and 'good' seem to indicate 6 FEET rather than
	6" (inches....).  Possible typo?

>> in very moist soil.  My protection filter and my secondary are

>>grounded to seperate tubes,


>>and then a discharge rod (long wooden stick with a nail in the

>>end of it wired to ground) is grounded to a third (Discharge

>> rod used for discharging coil after operation and also for

>>measurement purposes (never manually held near coil while in
>>operation)).

>>Is this an appropriate RF ground, or should I be doing something else?


>>Thanks,

>>><>Matt

> I dont think that 6-8" is nearly enough.


	Concur.  Suspect '6"' ('inches') may be typo?

> I'm cutting it short with 2 feet with my RF gnd, and i

> have 4 rods in the ground.


	Concur that multipoint, or 'radials' are good.
	more area is more important, arguably, than more
	depth.

> My secondary never arcs to my primary at the base, so that

> is a good sign. I always thought that people put them in

> about 5feet or so into the ground.  I hope that you are not 
> running a large coil off of this small RF ground.

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