Re: Ground rod Connection Point

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Original poster: Tesla729-at-cs-dot-com 

In a message dated 11/2/03 9:52:35 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
tesla-at-pupman-dot-com writes:

Hi Dan, Jeremy,

I would have to agree with Dan as well about the size of the ground
cable not being that big of an issue. What's more important is the
length of the ground cable as there is a notable voltage drop per
linear foot of conductor at > 100 kHz. I would think that it would be
a good idea to keep the ground cable runs to < 20 ft from the base
of the secondary coil to the ground rod(s) whenever possible.

David Rieben


>Original poster: dhmccauley-at-spacecatlighting-dot-com
>
>You'll find that you really don't need the kind of ground that you think you
>need.
>Even for my 3.5kW portable coil, i typically usually just tie a knot around
>a single 3ft ground rod in the ground in my patio of my townhouse when i run
>it.  I've run the 3.5kW coil with
>both large ground strap and also with 14 AWG stranded wire with no
>concernible differences in performance.