Original poster: Terry Fritz <teslalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Hi Jim,
At 10:14 PM 6/28/2005, you wrote:
At 07:47 PM 6/28/2005, you wrote:
Original poster: Terry Fritz <teslalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
At 07:07 PM 6/28/2005, you wrote:
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Or, for that matter, the soil. For a TC or an antenna, in both cases
one would want to minimize the losses in the soil.
I would just go get two lengths of 1 inch dia. copper pipe from the
hardware store. Bury it in an "X" pattern under where you want to run
the coil a few inches deep so it won't bother the grass or
anything. This would be better than the ground 90% of us have!!
Keep the primary coil a few feet above the ground or you can induce
currents in the soil that can kill the grass. Guess how I know this :o))
Did it burn a mysterious X in the grass? or a spiral?
Sort of a donut shaped area were the grass looked real sick. I think the
primary got some currents going in the soil that hurt the grass since that
was the mark it made. It was like that for the rest of the summer but cam
back fine the next year.