Ernst says he has the "goods" on Tesla and has filed a patent

[TinselKoala]

That's right Bill. You hardly ever seen the Wardenclyffe tower's below-ground-level construction, and people working with Tesla coils know that the bottom of the secondary should be connected to a solid Earth ground, but they seldom seem to know why. The Ionosphere is just one of the "plates" of the Schumann resonant cavity, the other is the Earth itself, a boundless source/sink of electrical charge.

[ramset]

Number 6

Part 6: response to reactions from the i-net community.

It would seem Ernst intends to open the mind to some other possibilities.

I suppose a few good measurements for PIN and POUT would suffice to enforce his position.


Chet

[Pirate88179]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrIf29PDXJc


I believe this is the Coast show that has a good segment on Tesla.  That topic starts after the 1st hour so you can skip ahead if desired.

Bill

[TinselKoala]

Number 6

Part 6: response to reactions from the i-net community.

It would seem Ernst intends to open the mind to some other possibilities.

I suppose a few good measurements for PIN and POUT would suffice to enforce his position.


Chet

In the last part of that video he quotes the various parameters, including his max voltage (but doesn't show how he determined it, no actual measurements) that he gets with his complex apparatus involving all those parts and two MOTS and the rest of it. Then he says, "I know, what I say can not be true". What is he referring to here, his output measurement? His ability to light a little fluorescent bulb?
Then he says, "So please...Prove me wrong!"

So I guess he hasn't watched my videos then. Because I show that an _efficient_ design can apparently outperform his, with an actual measurement that can be justified, of over a megavolt discharge, at much less input than he is using and for a far lower parts count, and no rotary break. I don't even have a 230 volt mains!

So I'm not exactly "proving him wrong"... there is nothing particularly remarkable about getting a megavolt out from 10 kV in, you don't even need VRSWR to do that, you can do it on turns count alone. But if you do take advantage of VRSWR and high Q you can do it with much less input.

But the important part came earlier in the video, where he said he's having fun! That's the main thing. Keep having fun, and look at the Wardenclyffe and Colorado Springs _underground_ parts, if you can find information on them.

Of course he implies at the beginning that he's interested in other things besides making big sparks. That's good, because a good Tesla power transmission system isn't going to be wasting its power in spark or corona display.

[TinselKoala]

All right, I'll share a little secret about why my MOT-DC coil works at all, much less as well as it does. The key is the blown spark gap.

All parts of a Tesla Coil are far more sophisticated than they appear at first glance. You can slap together just about any coil set and get some voltage amplification out of it. Once coilers start understanding VRSWR and how to attain it their coils get better, and with a rotary break they think their coils are working pretty well. But almost all rotary breaks that I see in small coils are not doing their job properly and are power-arcing to some extent instead, reducing the coil's effectiveness from the outset.

The key to rotary break performance is not so much in having the proper break rate, but in attaining proper spark _quenching_ between the breaks. I think a great way to make a rotary break perform well is to use the same kind of blown gap quenching that I used in the MOT-DC, not only for blowing out the spark but also for spinning the rotor! You would then use a "brake" on your break... he he... a brake on the axle to control the speed of the break while you spun and blasted the heck out of the gap with compressed air. The combination of proper BPS and genuine spark quenching will make your coil really rip!