Re: Proper sheathing of the HV power lines/ was: How many STSG's in service?

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Original poster: "Steve White by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <slwhite-at-zeus.ia-dot-net>

I was contemplating a similar arrangement. Did you run both HV leads through
the same conduit or did you pass each HV lead through its own conduit? This
would would yield 3 cables, 2 for the HV and 1 for the 120 v leads.

Steve in Iowa

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Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2001 9:24 AM
Subject: Proper sheathing of the HV power lines/ was: How many STSG's in
service?


> Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<Tesla729-at-cs-dot-com>
>
> In a message dated 11/24/01 10:29:30 PM Central Standard Time,
tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> writes:
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> > Hi Barton
> >
> > I really like the way you take power from the pole pig through plastic
> > plumbing pipes. It keep the lethal cables from just lying around. I'm
ging
> > to use this approach myself. Thanks.
> >
> > Godfrey Loudner
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>
> Godfrey, Bart, all,
>
> Yes, this is definitely a good idea to protect the HV lines and
> the operator during Tesla coil operation. Another way that I
> came up with is taking standard insulated #10 or #12 stand-
> ed bldg. wire and running it through some 1/2" ID vinyl tubing
> w/ 1/8" walls (you can purchase this at your local
> hardware                                          store). Then, I took the
> vinyl sheathed wire and ran
> it through some 1" dia. flexible aluminum Romex conduit.
> The Romex conduit is RF grounded. This umbilical connect-
> ion from my control panel to the coil assembly is about 16 ft
> long. The thing that I particularlly like about this setup is that
> the streamers cannot hit the HV power line since it is com-
> pletely Faraday shielded by the grounded sheath. I'm running
> a 10 kVA, 14400 volt pole pig as the power supply and the
> vinyl insulation has never failed yet. I know this setup does
> add parasitic capacitances to the input power line that may be
> undesired, but I have never had any problems with it and it is
> a nice flexible, non-rigid power supply line.
>
> BTW, I also encased the standard 120 volt supply line for the
> RSG motor in an RF grounded flexible Romex conduit, so I have
> two Romex conduits leading from my control panel to the coil as-
> sembly.
>
> Sparkin' in Memphis,
> David Rieben
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