Re: Capacitor Help

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Original poster: "MalcolmTesla" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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> Original poster: "Lau, Gary" <Gary.Lau@xxxxxx>
>
> Bear in mind that the stuff going through your RF ground connection is
> RF.  Running that through 150 feet of anything is almost as bad as no
> connection at all.  Most of the current will go to ground through
> capacitance to the floor.  If the only ground connection is that far
> distant, a nearby counterpoise is better.

Ahh good to know.

> But as others have said, if you will be running your coil in a chicken
> wire cage, using the cage itself as RF ground is perfectly acceptable.
> Just tie a green-wire ground to it for safety.
>
> One more thing - the quality of your RF ground will have NO perceptible
> impact on spark performance.  It's counterintuitive, but folks have
> reported forgetting to make ANY connection to the base of their
> secondary coil and it still ran.

Pretty neat.

>  The consequence of a poor or
> non-existant RF ground connection is how much RF travels back through
> your mains.  I've always wanted to try to measure this, but again, it's
> still down on my to-do list.

So poor RF grounding causes lots of noise on the mains.... yet connecting RF
ground to mains ground fixes everything?  It seems to me like joining the RF
ground to mains ground would cause lots of noise on the mains?

Thanks
Malcolm - KC