Re: Tesla Coil RF Transmitter

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


> Original poster: Ed Phillips <evp@xxxxxxxxxxx>

> > "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."

> You omit the enormous capacitance of the "conducting plasma", which is
> connected to the transmitter.  It is measured in FARADS, not nano FARADS
> or pico FARADS.  The Tesla coil transmitter must supply the current and
> power to elevate that plasma to the operating voltage.  Published data
> says that capacitance is of the order of 0.25 FARAD.
> Ed

Can you cite this published data?