Original poster: otmaskin5@xxxxxxx
Here's my first dumb question...
I just build my 1st coil powered by a 15/60 franceformer. First,
I'm amazed that it actually works. I gotta say I had my doubts
during the long research & construction construction phase. I
appreciate the great info from pupman & from several of you via some
of your the great websites.
I've been running it with just a safety gap and a conversvative
(0.12) primary gap setting until I can build an NST protection
filter. This has produced 26" arcs to ground so far...and that's
about as much as I can go in my basement space before streamers
would start hitting walls & ceilings.
My question is this, as I tinker with the coil & hopefully start
getting longer streamers, could strikes to the walls & ceiling cause
any problems with equipment connected to the house AC wiring? My
concern is the possibility of a streamer finding it's way through
the drywall into the wiring, or maybe more likely, striking an AC
outlet or light fixture & putting a lot of HV & RF directly into the wiring.
My wife's not real big on this whole Tesla thing & frying the house
wiring or our electronic stuff wouldn't help things.
Like I said, this may be a dumb quesion. I'd appreciate any advice. Thanks.
Dennis, Hopkinton MA