----- Original Message ----- From: "jimlux" <jimlux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Tesla Coil Mailing List" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, February 07, 2010 4:45 PM
Subject: Re: [TCML] Safely Grounding a Tesla Coil
Tim Wenzel wrote:
I would take all of the counterpoise info with a grain of salt,
however. Designing a Tesla coil as one would design an antenna might
not be the correct method. We do not want our coil to radiate
(transmit), we want to shunt the RF energy to ground. Making a solid
connection to mother Earth is what we are after, providing a current
path back to the source. Right?
Wrong... you want the current to return to the "bottom" of the
secondary, not mother earth. Running the currents through mother
earth, especially if it takes a long wire to get there, just makes for
troubles.