RE: grounding - this doesn't make sense - wire size

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Subject: RE: grounding - this doesn't make sense - wire size
From: Tesla List <tesla-at-stic-dot-net>
Date: Fri, 09 May 1997 23:43:56 -0500
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Subject:  RE: grounding - this doesn't make sense - wire size
  Date:   Fri, 9 May 1997 09:23:09 -0400 (EDT)
  From:   Charles Brush <cfbrush-at-interport-dot-net>
    To:   Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>


>ok, now this is interesting, if correct - I can see the need to keep the
>ground "solid" at RF freq driving the need for short wire and thick wire
>although it seems to me that putting a large steel plate on the floor
>might
>work better at RF freq (does anyone do this - like run the coil
>connected to a
>drip pan or something?).  Anyway, I don't see how the current, once in
>the
>wire, could build up somewhere in the ground, after all, Kirkov's law
>still
>applies.


Yeah, now that I think about it more, you are probably right.  it just
seemed to me that the more resistance there was in the groundpath, the
more
it became part of the 1/4 wave path.  Perhaps not.


Charles Brush
http://www,foundrygroup-dot-com/cbrush