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Re: Tesla Coil RF Transmitter



Original poster: "Gary Peterson" <gary@xxxxxxxxxxxx>


Original poster: Ed Phillips <evp@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Original poster: "Gary Peterson" <gary@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Of course, the current flowing through the loss resistance of an inefficient "antenna" is, to a Tesla-coil transmitter, the current [energy] that is not radiated but trapped within the entire resonating system, including the earth and the distant receiving transformer.

ONLY if the "transmitter" is coupled to "the distant receiving transformer, which it isn't.

According to theory, the transmitter IS coupled to the distant receiving transformer. The propagation of electrical energy between a Tesla-coil transmitter and a Tesla receiving transformer is by electrical conduction between the ground terminals, and direct and indirect electrostatic induction between their respective elevated terminals. For an ultra-high-power type-one system the coupling between the two elevated terminals is by electrical conduction through plasma.


. . . The current just flows to the ground within the immediate vicinity of the transmitter, "longitudinal waves"
etc. notwithstanding.

In operation the elevated terminal of a Tesla-coil transmitter functions as one plate of a capacitor. In opposition to this terminal is every other electrically conducting body to which it is electrically connected, including the earth and the receiver's elevated terminal. The transmitter's elevated terminal serves two purposes. First, it acts as a charge reservoir in opposition to the earth's surface in the immediate vicinity of the transmitter. Second, it is one of two capacitor plates, the other plate being the elevated terminal of the receiving facility. In an ultra-high-power Tesla-coil RF transmission-reception system these two capacitor plates act as high voltage discharge terminals for the formation of capacitively coupled discharge plasma with interconnection taking place through the upper level atmosphere.


Nothing flows in the distant receiving transformer.

Even if the transfer of energy is due 100% to "radio waves," which it isn't, current flows in the receiving transformer.


Ed

Gary