Grounding Rod

The grounding rod is an essential piece of the tesla coil yet it is very simple to make and use. All you need to do is shove a metal pole as deep into the ground as you can. This is needed for your tesla coil to work safely and if you have a safety gap like me you need somewhere to vent the feedback. 

To make it work, just make a wire coming from the neon sign transformer ground terminal, the bottom wire of the secondary coil and the grounding terminal of the safety gap to the grounding rod when you run the transformer. This will make everything work properly!

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