RE: lake ground?

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Original poster: "Mccauley, Daniel H by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <daniel.h.mccauley-at-lmco-dot-com>



Also, how do you plan on running this???  If you are planning on powering
the coil from a gasoline powered generator or inverter attached to a
vehicle, you need to realize most of these do NOT put out a sine wave.  They
are basically square wave outputs unless they are very expensive inverters.
I don't believe a tesla coil will work well with a square wave input.

The Captain



 >  > I will be taking my tesla coil up to a scout camp for 7
 > weeks, and i am
 >  > wondering what i should do about a ground. I haven't been
 > able to go up
 >  > there yet to see what the ground is like around the
 > campfire circle. But, i
 >  > am going to assume thats its very rocky (like most of the ground in
 >  > arkansas). Could i buy some of that metal fence/mesh
 > stuff, strap the
 >  > bottom of my secondary to that, and throw it out in the
 > lake? How good of a
 >  > groun would this be?
 >  > Thanks
 >  > Adam
 >
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 > Jerry Chamkis
 > jchamkis-at-bga-dot-com
 >
 >