Old Popular Electronic Magazine

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Original poster: gary350@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 


I remember an old magazine artical from about 30 years ago.  The 
power company put a megawatt power line across this guys 
property.  The guy built some type device to capture power from the 
power line.  The power line being the primary coil and the guys 
device being the secondary coil sorta speak.   The power company took 
the guy to court claiming he was stealing power.  Testimony from the 
power company said, power lines loose power out into the air all the 
time and there is no way to stop it and no way to know how much is 
being lost.  The guys testified that if the power company is loosing 
power all the time he should have a right to recover as much of it as 
he can.  Since the power company could not prove the guy was actually 
stealing power the court ruled the guy was not guilty of stealing anything.

The power line being 0 turns of a transformer how could anyone steal 
power from it?

I know Tesla claimed or thought he could transmit power long 
distances with no wires so how is that possible?

My Tesla Coil will light up a floriscent light bulb from across the 
room, it will set off motion detector lights for a block away, it 
will set off security alarm systems for 4 blocks, it will screw up 
every TV set in the neighbor hood but thats about all it does.  I 
saved all the bad floriscent light bulbs that were replaced in the 
light fixtures at work and my TC will still light them all up.   I 
stuck about 100 used floriscent light bulbs in the yard in a circle 
around my TC and they all light up.  It was cool.