Re: multiple resonators

To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: Re: multiple resonators
From: Richard Hull <hullr-at-whitlock-dot-com>
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 09:49:44 -0700
Tesla List wrote:
> 
> >From 100624.504-at-CompuServe.COMTue Oct 15 22:09:49 1996
> Date: 15 Oct 96 06:03:16 EDT
> From: Alan Sharp <100624.504-at-CompuServe.COM>
> To: Tesla List <tesla-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com>
> Subject: Re: multiple resonators
> 
> Richard
> 
> > I have put a section on one
> >of our old tapes where Duane Bylund runs 6 resonators simultaneously from
> >his magnifier like solid state drive.  It was a real hoot!!
> 
> Was this the set up that he describes at the end of his book? (He hadn't built
> it
> at that point.) How did it go? It's something I want to try myself.
> I'ld get the tape but UK video is not compatible.
> 
> Alan Sharp (UK)


Alan,

Duane and I correspondended over a long period of time and traded a few 
tapes back and forth.  He sent a number of interesting segments on his 
tapes to us.  The most advanced and bizarre episode was where he was 
running 6 resonators with 3 standard "Bylund" drivers!!!

He had an EPROM which was burned to allow the drivers to be phased 
according to a number of schemes which were dip switch selectable.  Each 
driver was powering two resonators 180 degrees apart in a circle of 
resonators.  In one amazing senario, he out-phased all of them so the sum 
would cancel all the action of the RF fields.  With sparks blazing from 
each resonator, he lowered a plasma lamp into the center of the coil 
group.  sparks actually hit the bulb, but not gas illumination occured 
within the lamp globe.  His power level was a kilowatt total.  Next he 
added all voltages through phasing and the bulb lit from many feet away! 
With the precise control of the electronic switches he had infinite 
control over the fields.  I was very impressed with Duane and his work.  
It is only due to his supplement to his book that I still hold out hope 
of considering the Tesla coil as a lumped circuit!

I got into the coilin' business for the sparks originally, but have seen 
a lot of wonderful things along the way over the last 10 years.  Bylunds 
work was a high point.  Even though I really don't consider the 
electronic system a real competitor for spark records it stands as a 
uniquely controlable device where many research opportunities exist.  It 
is the very raggedness and imprecision of the air arc which attracts my 
efforts.  However, I can appreciate all efforts to understand science.

Richard Hull, TCBOR