RE: [TCML] RF GROUND EXPERIMENTS

["Lau, Gary" <Gary.Lau@xxxxxx>]

> Also: how do you know your RF ground is good enough? By measuring
> resistance between the RF ground and the house ground? What should it
> read?

I wish I had an answer to this very simple-sounding, reasonable, and important question, but I don't believe that anyone on this List does.

I don't think that a resistance measurement would be useful, as the capacitive measurement to earth would not be captured.

Regards, Gary Lau
MA, USA

> -----Original Message-----
> From: tesla-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:tesla-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Ryckmans, Thomas
> Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 11:57 AM
> To: Tesla Coil Mailing List
> Subject: RE: [TCML] RF GROUND EXPERIMENTS
>
> Fritz, Chip,
>
> I wrote a scheme some time back, based on Gary Lau's, Terry and others'
> designs. It had the endorsement of BartB so I guess it should be okay...
>
> http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/Thomas.Ryckmans/TeslaStuff/photo#518513748
> 8997203250
>
> Feedback welcome, I had to stop building my coil for a while (it's
> summer in UK, and it only lasts 3 weeks...)
>
> Also: how do you know your RF ground is good enough? By measuring
> resistance between the RF ground and the house ground? What should it
> read?
>
> cheers
>
> Thomas

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