... To clarify: ask yourself what happens if you put a spark gap on the output of a Tesla Coil? Don't connect the secondary coil to a metal sphere. Instead...
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Fred Huff
fmhuff
Oct 11, 2008 11:13 pm
When dealing with anything Tesla you must sift through all the urban legend to find fact. Some speculation is de rigueur concerning Tesla's research. He was...
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Andy Holcomb
wvengineer
Oct 17, 2008 2:16 am
Hello All! I am a new member looking forward to what is to come throught this forum. I hope it grow into everything all of us want, Tesla's inventions and...
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Bill Beaty
bjbeaty
Nov 9, 2008 3:27 am
... Hi Fred! Yep, put a rotary gap on the *output* of a Tesla Coil. Note that if you short out a TC secondary through a spark gap, it's nearly the same thing...
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Bill Beaty
bjbeaty
Nov 9, 2008 3:33 am
DOH! Hi Andy! I missed your message earlier. Here's my latest weird thing based on Tesla's hyper-improved Coherer devices: A Tesla coil with DC output....
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Bill Beaty
bjbeaty
Nov 9, 2008 4:31 am
I was thinking about the Branly Coherer the other day, and I stumbled into a new/old idea. This idea let me understand lots of what Tesla was doing throughout...
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Fred Huff
fmhuff
Nov 9, 2008 10:08 pm
Bill, Somebody once described the Strong Nuclear Force as similar to a rubber band that instead of exponentially less as the electrons are pulled outward it's...
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Bill Beaty
bjbeaty
Nov 12, 2008 12:12 am
... You rediscovered the "capacitive voltage multiplier" which is the central basis for the entire science of Static Electricity! Keep on the lookout, since...
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enqrypzion
Nov 24, 2008 9:19 pm
Hi all! Today I joined the mailing list, which I found in the new stuff on amasci.com. For years I've been checking the site and appreciating the approach it...
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William Beaty
bjbeaty
Dec 8, 2008 8:53 am
Hi Ramon! Not a large subscribership here as yet. ... No doubt the visible discharge effects would become very unusual. Note that risetime is inv...
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enqrypzion
Dec 11, 2008 9:51 pm
To make things more accessible to everyone on the list, I split the reply up into separate threads (probably inducing an exponential increase in threads)....
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enqrypzion
Dec 11, 2008 10:03 pm
... Certainly at nanoseconds-UHF the conductor's resistance increases greatly. I'm wondering what happens at the micro level when surface electrons are less...
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enqrypzion
Dec 11, 2008 10:12 pm
... in ... frequency ... don't ... layers ... and ... I forgot to challenge everyone to calculate what leading edge of a pulse is necessary, using a dynamic...
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enqrypzion
Dec 11, 2008 10:25 pm
Latest response at the bottom ... effect ... magnetic ... pulse ... field ... In other words, if the wavelength of the signal traversing the coil is about the...
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enqrypzion
Dec 11, 2008 10:34 pm
One more subject.. Static spark gaps are triggered by some cosmic ray, radioactive particle, UV radiation or random ion floating by.. thus being slightly ...
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enqrypzion
Dec 11, 2008 10:44 pm
It was noted in the suggested forum topics that a 100 kHz rotating spark gap is interesting to discuss. Building one of these seems to me to be fairly easy, so...
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Bill Beaty
bjbeaty
Dec 21, 2008 5:55 am
... First our list would need more than two users! ... A pair of wires is always a waveguide; no metal tubes needed. (Or in Tesla's case, a single wire is a...
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Bill Beaty
bjbeaty
Dec 21, 2008 7:41 am
... I think Jeff B. has been planning on building one. Jeff? These are the same "spark gap" techniques used in desktop coils actually sold by Tesla's...
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maddoggsi
Jan 14, 2009 2:18 pm
Has anyone here seen this outfits work on 7(and more)-phase motor technology (among other things): http://www.borealis.gi/ They have locked in Delta Airlines...
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William Beaty
bjbeaty
Jan 14, 2009 9:06 pm
This one's a first! If blankets do it, why not VDGs or Tesla coils? ... Last night I was in my son's bedroom pulling apart two polartec blankets. The...
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R.P. van der Hilst
enqrypzion
Jan 15, 2009 11:31 pm
Wow that is superexciting news! This will leave's us a chance to create a reliable experimental setup in which to study the phenomenon. In terms of theory, I...
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Chris Swinson
exxos_uk
Mar 4, 2009 1:27 pm
Hello all, Its taken me a while to get around to introducing myself to the list. I wish to thank BillB for inviting me to join here some time ago! My interests...
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rlmarsh7
Mar 31, 2009 10:35 pm
If anyone has done a workup on what it would take (equipment, time, $, etc) to outfit a reasonable lab for recreating Tesla's experiments, I'd love to hear...
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ne.x_us
Apr 4, 2009 7:59 am
Occasionally i run across tidbits about teslas logic gating technology to create secure radio technology and high frequency circuits but i fail to find any...
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William Beaty
bjbeaty
Apr 17, 2009 6:18 pm
... Actually this gets into the central Tesla conumdrum ...WHICH experiment's the critical one to replicate? If you choose the wrong one, you become just...
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William Beaty
bjbeaty
Apr 17, 2009 6:52 pm
... I'm pretty sure it's his patent for the radio controlled boat. It has the boat circuitry in detail, and I've heard that the boat used logic gates so that...
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Chris Swinson
exxos_uk
Jun 1, 2009 3:50 pm
I can build a Tesla Coil no problem, however I am trying to build one without resonance. Now I can understand for example, 10% coupling will take 10 cycles to...
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Bert Hickman
bert_hickman
Jun 1, 2009 5:32 pm
Hi Chris, Let me preface this by saying that time does nor permit me to engage in a long dialog on this. I'll briefly try to address some potential conceptual...
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Chris Swinson
exxos_uk
Jun 1, 2009 6:55 pm
Hi Bert, Thanks for your reply. I will print out also read later. All the guy really said was discharge as many joules as fast as possible. Loose couple to...
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Fred Huff
fmhuff
Jun 1, 2009 7:58 pm
OK Chris, If I get this right you are simply trying to create a very short pulse of high voltage output from a low voltage source. I will dispense with why...
