Re: Weather/coil performance

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Original poster: <davep@xxxxxxxx>

 May or may not apply:

Beware the Frozen Ground.

If an outdoor 'ground' be used, once the dirt at the
ground level freezes the ground gets worse.
Documented in notes here, past.  Also well documented in
professional (power line, RF) ground studies.

Most significant on 'hi power coils', typically.
Sometimes goes away after 'some' operation, as the
current melts the ice.

If dirt 'ground' be deep enough: not an issue.

Physics:
 Once the water is no longer liquid, the ions that
allow current flow are trapped, more or less immobile.
If natural warming, or warming from current from coil
melts water around 'ground electrode', thing simprove.

best
 dwp