Re: Top-load-less TC

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Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>

Hi Al,

The posts to the Tesla list are at:

www.pupman-dot-com

in the archives.  I can also resend you a ton of posts if you want since I
keep them here too.

Cheers,

	Terry


At 07:02 PM 6/6/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi John, All on the Tesla list.  I am still trying to find out what kind
>of anomaly, if any is cause for my coil to give equidistant sparks
>regardless of topload.  However, John, I have suffered a really bad PC
>crash (well I guess there are really no good PC crashes),  and Juno
>dumped all of my mail files. (Juno does not save any mail files if your
>system crashes).   Is it possible that you could reiterate your helpful
>suggestions and experiments, I am most anxious to try your ideas John.
>Hopefully you have been able to open my .aim file that Bart B. was kind
>enough to post.  I hope you can help figure why the scheme of this
>particular toriodless and exchangeable coil is functional regardless of
>size or pattern of topload.      Then again, here I go again voicing my
>opinion based patially on my own findings.    Here we go!        
>        
>        Perhaps Tesla coils are really supposed to be able to adapt to
>any and all configurations of topload (meaning the coil would be variably
>adjustable to compensate for variations in drift of tuning).  Can you
>just imagine a working Tesla coil delivering electricity over the
>airwaves with a continually roaming and computer controlled hysterisis
>null zero circuit basis constant with variable positive and negative
>waves controlled by a 'zero' marked reference carrier that is consistent
>with a constant power cycle derived from a earth null zero + natural
>earth capacitance reference point.  A power broadcasting system that
>would adapt to any atmospheric or earth condition or upheaval simply by
>computer control adjustment that would be capable of fine tuning itself 
>to the null zero point plus earths natural capacitance and variations in
>capacitance dependant upon the exact placement of said terra firma and
>configured and then boosted in power and amplitude and continuously
>variable to adapt to any remote receiver when applied directly to the
>output signal,  just like we use for radio reception, just on a larger
>scale. Figure a group of towers with massive earth sinks similar to
>Wardenclyff upon each continent.  The individual personal receiving
>stations could be equally controlled by a homing digital or analog signal
>that would automatically compensate for atmospheric conditions and earth
>capacitance and self adjust as needed to attain optimum power signal from
>the main transmission stations and strive to lock itself into the zero or
>null part of the carrier.   You must admit that it is indeed plausible. 
>One simply needs to place the present system of things aside and realize
>that the Tesla Broadcasting System as envisioned by Tesla way back in
>1900 was indeed workable and any and all radio/video/fax/ancillary
>broadcasting systems signals could easily be placed upon the appropriate
>carrier wave for downloading from any source that Tesla had already
>figured out in his mind and he had workable ideas to pull all of this
>'wireless power broadcasting'  together. As it is we now must utilize
>land wires to satisfy our electrical needs. Almost all communications,
>radio, pager, palm pilot, laptop computers,video, telephone, satellite
>and everything seems to be  via the airwaves.  You know what, just look
>around. EVERYTHING  is turning to wireless technology .     I look
>forward to your opinion!     Sincerely, Al.  
>On Wed, 06 Jun 2001 10:59:57 -0600 "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
>writes:
>> Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" 
>> <FutureT-at-aol-dot-com>
>> 
>> In a message dated 6/6/01 9:45:34 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
>> tesla-at-pupman-dot-com 
>> writes:
>> 
>> >  Toploads are optional for this coil, which is why I am puzzled
>> >  by list members saying that a extreme toroid is conducive to 
>> maximum
>> >  output.  I have found that this is not the case at all.  Now 
>> either my
>> >  coil is an anomaly, or all coils can be tuned to give equal spark 
>> output
>> >  regardless of the topload.  Maybe a lot of list members just go 
>> by the
>> >  computer designed topload and never really experiment to see what 
>> a Tesla
>> >  can actually do with any given topload or no topload at all. 
>> 
>> Al,
>> 
>> I can't speak for others, but I have tested my coils with and 
>> without
>> toploads and I have reported this to you previously.  My coils 
>> definitely
>> give about 40% longer sparks using a proper topload.  So I can
>> say without doubt that not all coils can be tuned to give equal 
>> spark
>> length with or without topload.  My guess is that your coil is an
>> anomaly.  I made some comments about your coil about a week
>> ago, those comments suggest certain experiments you could do
>> to try to find the cause of the anomalous behaviour of your coil.
>> 
>> John Freau
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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