Re: Tesla motor receiver

[Hollmike-at-aol-dot-com (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)]

In a message dated 8/29/2000 7:07:55 PM Mountain Daylight Time, 
tesla-at-pupman-dot-com writes:

> But how do we lower the frequency back down to a rate
>  that a diode can handle ?
>               ~Richard Barton.
>  
   Are all diodes that slow responding that they couldn't rectify a sub-AM 
radio frequency?   Never looked into this, so I cannot say. 
    One option might be to build a sender and receiver with very fine wire 
and use several thousand turns to get a really low frequency(plus use a 
really large topload).   For this to work, you probably want to prevent 
sparks from coming off the topload(by having that really large one)  to avoid 
loading down the sender with the arcs and losing the ability to transmit a 
signal.  
   On the other hand, I seem to remember that Tesla made an induction motor 
from a simple disk placed in proximity to an induction coil.  Perhaps this 
might be an avenue to explore.   Maybe you could use a coil wound to the 
frequency of the sender and place a disk of something like aluminum or 
copper(ie a non ferromagnetic metal) in fairly close proximity to the 
reciever coil.  You wouldn't even need a primary coil for the receiver if 
that worked.
Mike