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Re: Tesla Coil on the News

Subject:  Re: Tesla Coil on the News
  Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 05:13:49 -0700 (PDT)
  From: gweaver <gweaver-at-earthlink-dot-net>
    To: Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>


At 10:36 PM 5/26/97 -0500, you wrote:
>Subject:  Tesla Coil on the News
>  Date:   Mon, 26 May 1997 02:10:14 -0400 (EDT)
>  From:   Jeremy Bair <pwac-at-flinet-dot-com>
>    To:  Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>, Tesla-2 <tesla-2-at-emachine-dot-com>
>
>
>Two days ago a friend woke me up at around 11:30 to tell me that he saw
>some sort of Tesla Coil coming up on the news. So I got up and stuck a
>blank tape in the VCR :)
>
>When I woke up the next day and played the story, it started out
>informing
>us of power company struggles with customers, one customer in
>particular,
>his name was Phillip Cambell of Tallahassee Florida (I don't expect any
>other coilers here have seen the report, it was probably only run in
>Florida, but I would like to be aware of anyone who saw it in or out of
>Florida *please reply*).
>
>Basically what happened was FP&L (Florida Power And Light) cut this guys
>power off because he wasn't paying his bills, so he decided to live
>without consumer electricity. They never mentioned how he was currently
>giving his house juice, but I take it he had some sort gas powered of
>generator. 
>
>The whole news report was stupid (in my opinion of course), they were
>hinting (Although not directly implying) that he was trying to develop a
>way to transport electricity wireless to move the power from land lines
>to
>the air. 


About 10 years ago there was an artical in Popular Science about a guy
getting power from power lines that crossed his property.  He was using
some
type of large coil system to pick up the radiated power from the power
lines.  The power company took the guy to court and tied to make him pay
for
the power of stop him from do it.  The judge ruled in the guys favor
because
the power companies own engineer testified that all power lines loose
power.
So the judge said its like recycling something that was lost. The guy is
not
stealing power he is recovering power that the power company lost. 
Sence he
has no direct wire connection to the power lines he is not stealing
power.
And the power company can not prove he is drawing power from there wires
with his system or prove how much power he is getting he is not stealing
power.

Gary Weaver 



Using what they called "Age old methods". This report was a
>crock, they never even mentioned the name Nikola Tesla throughout the
>whole report.  After recently reading the biography of Nikola Tesla
>(Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla - Marc J. Seifer *very good
>book*) I became very pissed off at this report.
>
>I called up the station and they told me it was from an affiliate
>station
>and they thought it looked "cool" so they decided to take up the rest of
>the time with it.
>
>It looks like this guy *may* be trying to take credit to reinvent Nikola
>Tesla's system of wireless transmission, all I got to say to him is good
>luck. But I doubt he will get anything accomplished. He looked so poor I
>doubt he is going to get any support from anyone concerning this, and I
>bet he is going to have some REAL fun with the FCC if he tries something
>like transmitting electricity.
>
>On Tuesday I'm going to try to get in touch with the news channel that
>did the report in Tallahassee and see if I can get anymore info about
>who
>this guy is and if they know how he was powering his house.
>
>Oh, and by the way. The coil he was demonstrating with was REAL poor,
>you
>sound have seen it, the secondary was rapped on a piece of PVC pipe that
>looks like he cut it from some construction site, it wasn't coated or
>sanded (You could read the writing on it), and he was using ALLOT of
>black
>electrical tape to hold his coil together.
>
>The primary was even worse, it was about 4-5 turns of copper way below
>the
>secondary, and his connections were maxed out at the end of copper (I
>guess thats all he could rip out of his old frig). 
>
>Guess how he was tuning his coil? By placing items like tools and spark
>plugs on top of his secondary! I'm sure that looked real nice to display
>in front of a camera, a corona covered spark plug... 
>
>Anyhow, thats enough from me, let me conclude that the lady I talked to
>at
>the news channel (the program director) could not even understand what
>the
>story was about. I think she ran it because of the pretty blue sparks :) 
>
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