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RE: [TCML] Is my 10" Tesla Coil Illegal ?
Hi Gary,
I use a double 6 foot rod spaced 8 feet (maybe the platting is corroded?),
have a recess holes, and soak the rods before hand. Richard Quick used to
recommend 3 rods. Salt is good. There is a center tap of 3/4" copper pipe
adjoining the rods. I use 3 inch flat copper rolled and soldered to the
copper pipe center and run directly to the coil base near by. This is a lot
of "surface area" of connection conductor. I can run 7500Va close to the
house with a bigger top load and my garage door is cool and I can run a PC
on an EMI filter and see no interference of a cable and formerly satellite
TV as a test.
Speaking of EMI, are you using an overkill EMI filter, say three phase, on
the power feed? Are you close to phone or power cables? Something is
seemingly amiss.
Perhaps the Hamm style counterpoise of spoke wire would help?
Jim Mora
I would like to know the perceived problem here as it potentially affects us
all and I am about to run a 12" @ 10KVA with a 70' wide back yard in an old
neighborhood with one cranky neighbor.
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Of gary350@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 1:45 PM
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Subject: Re: [TCML] Is my 10" Tesla Coil Illegal ?
Here is a photo I took about 6 years ago shooting sparks to a target on both
left and right side of the coil. Target is a 1/2" diameter steel rod.
Ground rod in in the yard to the left about 6 ft it is a 6 foot long copper
coated rod with a #6 copper wire running from it to the bottom end of the
secondary coil.
http://home.earthlink.net/~gary350/tc10-4.jpg
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>From: jhowson4@xxxxxxxxxxx
>Sent: Jan 19, 2010 1:45 PM
>To: Tesla Coil Mailing List <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re: [TCML] Is my 10" Tesla Coil Illegal ?
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>lol, my small one that can throw 3' sparks turns on the electic blanket
makes the computer monitors flicker and screws my neighbors cable up. I
installed a 4' ground pipe and my neighbors stopped complaining...but the
electric blanket still comes on...
>
>well any way my first thought goes to what frequency are you operating at,
and could these systems that are effected be operating near that frequency.
>
>got any pictures this coil sounds sweet!
>
>Thanks,
>John "Jay" Howson IV
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Jim Mora" <wavetuner@xxxxxxxxx>
>To: "Tesla Coil Mailing List" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 1:59:54 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
>Subject: RE: [TCML] Is my 10" Tesla Coil Illegal ?
>
>Hi Gary,
>
>How good is your RF ground and RF cabling? That is an awesome coil; but, it
>is a bit surprising the range of the hash. Clearly you can run at lower
>power levels if your ground(s) is good enough.
>
>Jim Mora
>
>
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>Of gary350@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 9:57 AM
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>Subject: [TCML] Is my 10" Tesla Coil Illegal ?
>
>This time of the year when the air is cold and the humidity is extremely
low
>static electricity is very high I get shocked every time I get IN or OUT of
>my SUV, take off my jacket or put on my jacket. If I move the blankets in
>bed at night I see all kinds of sparks. It is perfect for firing up my
>Tesla Coil and getting some very long sparks. But I worry that this might
>be illegal. My 10" TC makes 12 foot arcs I can make a 27 ft circle of arcs
>and sparks in the back yard with the 3 ft top load. It makes every motion
>detector light and every security alarm system go off in a 4 block radius
>around my house. After dark I can see motion detectors lights going on/off,
>on/off, on/off, on/off, on/off, in all directions as far as I can see. My
>automatic garage door and all the neighbors garage doors are freaked out
>going up/down, up/down, up/down, up/down, up/down, up/down, over and over.
>I can hear security alarms in all directions. I road my bicycle through the
>neighbor hood and I can find alarm systems going off 4 blocks away in
>several directions from my house. It totally distroys TV and it makes no
>difference if you have cable, satallite, or antenna TV is totally wiped out
>all reception for several blocks. I don't fire up my 10" TC very often
>anymore I worry it might be illegal.
>
>
>
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