Re: TCBOR TC Video Primer

To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: Re: TCBOR TC Video Primer
From: Richard Wayne Wall <rwall-at-ix-dot-netcom-dot-com>
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 1996 19:07:12 -0700

You wrote: 

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>
>Welcome to the alternate lifestyle of living with a working Tesla 
>coil.  Oh, yeah, if you've got a computer in the same room as you 
>fire in, unplug it!  An RF line filter between the wall socket and 
>your neon is a really good idea.  Grab one of those surplus units 
>salvaged from computer equipment made probably by Corcom, and connect 
>its ground to the same good ground (water pipe entry to the house, 
>etc.) that the bottom of your secondary should be tied into, with 
>heavy wire.  For this power level #10 or #12 AWG would be OK probably 
>up to 20 feet.
>
>Happy Coiling!, rwstephens
>

I use a 20 Amp 120 Volt EMI/RFI filter and a 7 foot x 3/4 in copper 
clad steel ground connected to the coil with 15 feet of #8 AWG copper.  
I recently bought two 100 Amp EMI/RFI filters real cheap at a Navy 
surplus auction that I plan to use later in a 220 Volt coil. 

Thanks for the suggestions.

RWW