Re: [TCML] Safely Grounding a Tesla Coil

[jimlux <jimlux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tim Wenzel wrote:
> I would take all of the counterpoise info with a grain of salt, however. 
> Designing a Tesla coil as one would design an antenna might not be the 
> correct method.  We do not want our coil to radiate (transmit), we want 
> to shunt the RF energy to ground.  Making a solid connection to mother 
> Earth is what we are after, providing a current path back to the 
> source.  Right?

Wrong... you want the current to return to the "bottom" of the 
secondary, not mother earth.  Running the currents through mother earth, 
especially if it takes a long wire to get there, just makes for troubles.

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