Big coils in/near house : was - Warning on DRSSTC's

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Original poster: DRIEBEN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 

Steve, all,

I had problems with my pig powered coil, which can be
seen at: www.dawntreader.net/hvgroup/david/gm -
when even only powering it up enough to where the
RSG just started to "spit". Even with the RF ground
firmly established, the first litle spits would
cause the home alarm system to go absolutley haywire
and I once had to call the alarm company to send a
technician to come and fix the glitch in the system.
Thankfully, it was something that he was able to reset
without replacing any parts. However, on another occa-
sion, I was firing it outside house but close enough
that the streamers could still strike the house and
especially the garage door ;^O So, guess what happened?
Yep, it fried the garage door opener assembly to the
tune of about $300 to repair it ;^( Talking about an
unhappy wife!

I finally removed my RF ground system to some 40 ft away
from the house down the driveway and since firing my coil
at this "remote" distance from the house, I have had no
more problems ;^)

David
David Rieben

----- Original Message -----
From: Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 1:49 pm
Subject: Re: FW: Warning on DRSSTC's

> Original poster: Steve Ward <steve.ward@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> On 11/29/05, Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Original poster: Steve Conner <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> >  > DRSSTC's are nasty machines
> >
> > Mine isn't, as far as I can tell.
>
> My coils are just fine until they strike the house (or any of its
> conduit).  This causes the cable internet to reset.  Once my large
> coil threw out a 7 foot power arc to the house, it wiped out the
> network card on a computer that was at the opposite end of the house.
> That is the extent of the damage, not a big deal because we had some
> spare cards, just dont let it happen again.
>
> Steve Ward
>
>
>