Here is a short abstract of the presentation TESLA'S WORLD WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM to be made at the upcoming Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe...
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Greg Leyh
lod@...
Jul 9, 2011 2:17 am
Neat... is there a webpage with more info?...
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Gary Peterson
garylpeterson
Jul 9, 2011 2:58 pm
CONFERENCE ON WIRELESS ENERGY When: November 5, 2011 Where: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Long Island, NY Topic: Wireless Energy The Tesla Science Center at...
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Thuan Yi Goh
ketaraenergy
Jul 25, 2011 2:18 am
Hi Gary, Nice to have 'met' you. My name is Goh and i'm writing you from malaysia. i have interest in the tesla technology as part of my fascination and ...
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Gary Peterson
garylpeterson
Jul 26, 2011 2:30 pm
Goh, ... was the ... The smale-scale Tesla wireless system demo apparatus and circuit diagram are from Konstantine Meyl. Additional images are posted at ...
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Charles Van Neste
cwvanneste
Jul 26, 2011 3:51 pm
Hi Gary and everyone else, I have a quick question for you Gary. In your setup, what are you using as ground? How deep does it go, etc. Also, I believe...
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Gary Peterson
garylpeterson
Jul 26, 2011 8:06 pm
I use two independennt ground terminals, one at the transmitter, the other at the receiver. At the transmitter I have two copper bonded steel rod (5/8" x 8')...
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Thuan Yi Goh
ketaraenergy
Jul 28, 2011 4:10 am
and also, i'm very interested in the research you've shared by Strebkov regarding more efficient ways of transmitting power - its published in 2001 - what are...
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Gary Peterson
garylpeterson
Aug 3, 2011 12:30 pm
Thuan Yi Goh wrote: ". . . in Tesla's Wardenclyffe attempt . . . I believe there is one more component missing - would you know anything about that?" Can you...
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Thuan Yi Goh
ketaraenergy
Aug 3, 2011 2:38 pm
Hello, i cannot be sure about this, for there are many unofficial leads on the internet, but i read that what Tesla did was to also sink metal rods into the ...
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Gary Peterson
garylpeterson
Aug 4, 2011 4:13 am
Do you know anything about this? A. Yes. You see the underground work is one of the most expensive parts of the tower. In this system that I have invented it...
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Rick
r.saunders1706
Aug 5, 2011 4:38 pm
We know in theory that the overall resistance of the earth is small compared with that of a metal such as copper. To obtain a pair of low-resistance ground...
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Charles Van Neste
cwvanneste
Aug 6, 2011 1:35 am
Well said Rick. This is why in transmission sub stations they will take a wire mess and bury it under the ground, then hammer rods deeper into the ground all...
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Rick
r.saunders1706
Aug 6, 2011 2:52 pm
The two ground terminals are to be installed at the bottom of 120-foot deep shafts excavated or drilled directly below the elevated terminal support...
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Gary Peterson
garylpeterson
Aug 7, 2011 6:23 pm
Charles, Why would 30 shallow ground rods work better than a single deep one of equivalent contact surface area? It seems to me the use of multiple shallow...
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Charles Van Neste
cwvanneste
Aug 8, 2011 6:49 pm
I was just talking about the surface area of the ground. More surface area would be better than a deeper ground. Ideally though I would think you would...
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Gary Peterson
garylpeterson
Aug 9, 2011 5:37 pm
Charles wrote: "More surface area would be better than a deeper ground." This would only be true if the structure were intended to launch radio waves, that is...
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infinitegoldenbraid
infinitegold...
Aug 10, 2011 8:39 pm
What Rick and Gary have shared on the subject of grounding is insightful and theoretically correct, and is pointing in the right direction for the practical...
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Gary Peterson
garylpeterson
Aug 25, 2011 6:54 pm
Is there a webpage with more info? Yes, at http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=qi4icbhab&oeidk\ =a07e4l3ala05b707f08 ...
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Charles Van Neste
cwvanneste
Sep 3, 2011 6:22 am
Hello everyone, I have a question about the secondary of a Tesla coil. I keep seeing in many places that the secondary has an aspect ratio that is very long...
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Bert Hickman
bert_hickman
Sep 3, 2011 1:49 pm
Hi Charles, The peak output voltage is proportional to sqrt(Lsec/Lpri), so there is some advantage to using a high secondary inductance. However, "candlestick"...
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Gary Peterson
garylpeterson
Sep 3, 2011 3:39 pm
Bert, You wrote, ""candlestick"; coils tend to be inefficient" and of "a balancing act [being required] to arrive at optimal performance." How do you gauge...
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Bert Hickman
bert_hickman
Sep 3, 2011 4:10 pm
Hi Gary, ... Yes. However, the lower Q of candlestick coils will introduce higher system losses than larger diameter, shorter length coils. So, I suspect that ...
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Charles Van Neste
cwvanneste
Sep 3, 2011 5:05 pm
Hi Bert, So basically the longer coils are to keep the high voltage top away from the base and to reduce coupling with the primary at the expense of some lost...
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Gary Peterson
garylpeterson
Sep 3, 2011 5:47 pm
Bert, You wrote, "I suspect [candlestick coils] would also be less efficient even for non-sparking, intentionally radiating systems." Once again, how do you...
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Charles Van Neste
cwvanneste
Sep 3, 2011 6:00 pm
Hi Gary, I was taking Bert's comments as the voltage magnification efficiency (not power input). So if you input 10 Volts, a secondary that generates 10,000...
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Bert Hickman
bert_hickman
Sep 3, 2011 8:20 pm
Higher Efficiency simply means lower loss. All other things being the same, a higher Q coil in a resonant circuit with the same inductance will lose less...
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Gary Peterson
garylpeterson
Sep 3, 2011 9:37 pm
Bert, Charles' original question was, "I keep seeing in many places that the secondary has an aspect ratio that is very long compared to its diameter. What is...
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Bert Hickman
bert_hickman
Sep 3, 2011 10:28 pm
Hi Charles, The difference is whether you are exciting the secondary from a continuous or quasi-continuous source of RF (such as a solid state or vacuum tube...
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Charles Van Neste
cwvanneste
Sep 3, 2011 11:07 pm
Thanks Bert. All the system's I've used were CW so that makes sense. Charles ________________________________ From: Bert Hickman <bert.hickman@...> ...
