Re: [TCML] DANGER Ground wire Continued

[cbroring@xxxxxxx]

I learned early in my ham radio days that ground rods are a poor and 
unreliable ground especially for RF.  One test that I used to do for a 
ground rod was connect a 100 watt light bulb between the hot side of 
the house mains and the ground rod to see how bright it glowed.  Not 
very scientific but I was often dismayed at how dimly it lit.

I always tied all grounds together in in order to keep everything at 
the same relative potential.  I understand that here in the Tesla world 
there are other priorities that dictate a separate RF return to ground 
for the coil, but it doesn't seem very safe to me.

Charlie
K3YA


-----Original Message-----
From: Chris <carielles@xxxxxxx>
To: Tesla Coil Mailing List <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sat, Feb 13, 2010 7:09 pm
Subject: [TCML] DANGER Ground wire Continued


Thank you for your response, but thats a target. Im wondering about the 
dangers of touching the ground wire thats attached to the bottom of the 
secondary. I live in an apartment on the second floor. I want to run my 
ground wire out over my porch down to a ground rod outside, but im 
worried for the neighbors below me. I dont want them to go outside and 
see the wire, and think, "What the heck is that?" Then walk up and grab 
it. Have no choice if i want to run my little coil inside. All plastic 
plumbing in the building and I obviously dont want to use the outlet 
ground. Thanks 
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