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

[William Beaty <billb@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Lau, Gary wrote:

> Are you asking if Tesla described the function of the extra spark gap
> and spiral supports?  I'm not at all as well versed in his writings as
> you, but in the diagram labeled Fig 5, the extra gap is identified as
> "rectifier corona plasma".  The device is clearly a high voltage DC
> generator, rectifying the TC output using coronal rectification to
> charge the top load capacitance.

If I'm right, then don't trust the labels, since this is a
"earth-resonance pulser" and not an electrostatic power supply.  It more
resembles the Corum's replication of Tesla's ball-lightning experiment:
allowing a spark to leap from an operating TC, but when the spark connects
with a second electrode, it shorts out the system, producing a DC impulse
of very short pulsewidth and "inconceivable violence."

> The spiral supports seem to be a precursor to the beehive insulators in
> use today, as a means of extending the surface arc distance.  I wonder
> if such a machine and insulators were ever built.  No mysteries at all.

Ah, but what if Tesla-written text DOES exist, and says that those spirals
are actually conductors?   If so, then the whole thing fairly reeks of
mystery and unexplained concepts hidden in Tesla's head.   As I said in an
earlier message, once you learn a new fact about one of Tesla's diagrams,
your view of the diagram changes completely.  The rug gets pulled out from
under your unexamined assumptions, and you wake up in a different world.

On the other hand, my intuition could be totally wrong, I could be totally
off base in attempting to "read Tesla's mind," and I could be wasting my
time following a dead end path.




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