Re: I think Im in love with sparks!

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

In a message dated 11/16/02 9:40:52 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
tesla-at-pupman-dot-com writes:


>I signed up with the tesla forum a couple of months ago after building a
>few lifters and having a taste for MORE POWER (btw if tesla's interest you
>then Lifter technology will keep you up til 3 in the morning too)
>
>I had first light about a 2 weeks ago I felt like god for a few seconds
>then my wife came pounding on my office door to stop that racket, now im
>hooked!
>
>Thanks to all of you for your input and especially jim for guiding me
>through this!
>
>BTW does anyone know why all the copper pipes in my house rattle when I fir
>eup my coil?
>Danny L. Ray II


Danny,

Rattling copper pipes sounds like a water valve (solenoid) getting turned 
on and off rapidly.  Possibly on your dishwasher or maybe automatic lawn 
sprinklers.  Try unplugging suspect devices to locate the 
problem.  Sometimes when I run my coil in the basement, the dishwasher 
upstairs is started.  This happened frequently when I had discharges 
directly to a cold water pipe.  I added a grounded wire a couple of inches 
below the pipe to resolve the problem.

I have also had a problem with the coil in the basement screwing up my air 
pressure settings in my air mattress bed two floors above the coil.  This 
turned out to be a conducted emissions problem (even though I have an RFI 
filter on the AC supply to the coil).  I finally found one of those AC 
power strips for computers to plug the bed controller into that provides 
enough filtering to solve the problem.

Ed Sonderman