RE: [TCML] RE: musing on lists ( Wireless Transmission Theory)

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Jeff:

The unique cone shaped discharges between hot Tesla terminal and ground
--- any idea what frequency they were operating at when these drawings
were produced?  Perhaps 600-800 kHz?

Dr. Resonance



>
> Bill -
>
> Exactly!  It takes a lot of rereading and even more experimentation to try
> and get it right.
>
> When you go back, way back, to the 1890s, to the few people that witnessed
> Tesla firsthand - and then went off to write their own Tesla articles -
> [for example, Hugo Gersback] -
> "By further increasing the amperage, and by separating the discharging
> rods but little, we obtain a peculiar spark discharge composed of
> extremely thin, blinding, white threads enclosed in a large flame or spray
> (Fig 6).  This discharge is the most beautiful; it can be further
> intensified by using a strong air current trained against the spray.
> Sparks can be made to fly off similar to those produced by sharpening a
> metal tool on a
> grindstone..."http://www.electrotherapymuseum.com/TeslaArchive/ExperimentsWithTheTeslaCoil/index.htm
>
> The whole grinding stone sparks concept has really got me going.  I HAVE
> to try it!  I've used compressed air against a real hot discharge once
> with some odd success, but never got the "grinding stone sparks"...?
> http://www.electrotherapymuseum.com/2007/250WT/index.htm
>
> Some people will have no interest in such lecture experiments, and then
> are some of us will burn the house down at 3am trying to reproduce it
> before we have to wake up at 5am to feed the cat, only to pass out at 4:47
> still trying.  I know that routine a little too well!
>
> One thing I've noticed recently:  These experiments work better with
> potential transformers that aren't current limited.  The resistance or
> reactance coils in series with these transformers (combined with an
> adjustable cap in small increments) seem to make the output of the coil
> change to more marked degree than using a neon transformer and trying to
> simply manipulate the gap and primary tap...the hard part is finding the
> reactance coils and potential transformers.
>
> Jeff
>
>
>> Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:11:37 -0800> From: billb@xxxxxxxxxx> To:
>> tesla@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: RE: [TCML] RE: musing on lists ( Wireless
>> Transmission Theory)> CC: > > On Sun, 10 Feb 2008, Jeff Behary wrote:> >
>> > How many people have read through Tesla's lectures, and wondered
>> "What's> > the point?". He described so many variations of coils and
>> circuits and> > electrical discharge effects which are for most people
>> completely> > meaningless and trivial.> > As I learn more and more about
>> Tesla's obscure history, and then later> return to his writings, I
>> occasionally see astounding things which earlier> escaped my notice.> >
>> If I'd been looking right at a Tesla coil variation which later turned
>> out> to be important, but I'd missed the interesting part because I
>> didn't know> what it was... it leads me to wonder how much of Tesla's
>> other work still> seems trivial to me because I cannot yet understand
>> the interesting parts.> > I wouldn't be very shocked to learn that each
>> of those apparently trivial> variations was actually hiding something
>> amazing.> > Here's a test. Go look at the diagrams alone for Tesla's
>> 1892 lectures.> Many seem like like obscure and useless variation. Then
>> read the> lectures to discover that each diagram was illustrating a
>> particular> point. With the descriptive text available, the diagrams
>> look very> different. The "informed eye" sees a different world.> > > >
>> > > (((((((((((((((((( ( ( ( ( (O) ) ) ) ) )))))))))))))))))))> William
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