The Tesla Project

[wattsup]

@am1ll3r

Great job indeed and I am happy to see someone else trying this. You are on your way and it's fun. It's just crazy. My first trials and many after gave those results but with a little higher voltage, but that is without a load. As soon as I would put a small 12vdc light on the working circuit, the voltage would drop to around 1.5 - 2.5 vdc. I tried with many choke types and caps, switched transformers, etc., etc., but the results with a load were always in that range.

@all

Now that I "think" my cap is in the "right place", it is true you can build around it and I am putting up a circuit diagram of my current EC Trial #2 so it can be recorded here as a progression. I'm only using one relay on the primary side, and of this, I'm now only using one side but both N/O and N/C terminals.

I realized that my caps could be bigger since the uf is what is important here, so I plugged my large capacitor bank that I usually use for RVing a 460 volts motor. Started switching caps in and out while checking the secondary voltage starting to increase even with the load. Once I got the best match, I am producing 14.3 volts range with the load. So I decided to take out my biggest capacitor on hand which is a massive (see photo lol) 88uf 1200 volts. The voltage went up to 16.8 volts and holding.

My relay is purring like a nice running motor. Not to fast, not too slow. No I have not done any amperage tests, etc., as at this point this is not my main concern. I can say this is so much fun.

I still have to integrate the other half of this relay, plus another relay on the secondary side.

Sorry if the photo is a miss mash of wires. If anyone else is trying this, the values are not important. Just stay under the 100uf on the primary side because it is true, the relay will take a beating. I tried.

This is so f*&?in great. Now I can pulse my relay at different speeds just by changing the capacitor value. I tried a 0.5uf 1200 volts cap and you should here the relay whizzing along, but no power production in this set-up. But still, this will open a whole new realm of testing for this non EEer. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. I can now really pulse into my TPU, ECD and every thing that is pulsable and finally check mag fields in real time.

@EM or @Plengo

If you have any time, try taking this diagram and adapt it in a mini-TPU setup as I am very curious to see if there is any potential.

[armagdn03]

A while back I whipped one of these together just to show effect...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9g2AGs9_JU&feature=related

Same principles, home made solenoid relay (decently fast as you can see) but what I wanted to point out was the size of the capacitor on it, while optimum will be different for every setup, mine here is only a 500 volt 5pf ceramic disk one that I point to about 7 seconds in (but dont mention it in the video) turns out this was not optimal, but still shows that you dont need huge values here. With this condenser, and the primary of the transformer, my output arcs were oscillating in the millions of cycles per second, After adding a bit more capacitance later, I got sparks up to 1 inch.

Also read carefully patent 462,418 http://www.rastko.org.yu/cms/files/books/46c5badf76cd6.pdf
notice what changing condenser size does to the strength of current. Perhaps a giant cap on the output is not best, perhaps it is,
but you should understand what changing the size does.

Keep up the good work guys!!!!

One more thing. I tend to talk to a  few people over instant messenger and I noticed something interesting, People tend to find an interesting site, speculate over it, and leave it at that. Why not take a more proactive stance and contact the creator of the site! Or if you see someone who might be good to share info with send them a personal message! The point is, dont be shy my friends, we are in this together, contact each other, talk to each other, pick the brains of people who know more than you, (you only know something when you realize you know nothing) but all in all, you guys are great, thanks for the smile.

[wattsup]

I changed my smaller relay for my original one and my largest cap was not enough for peak performance at this stage so I put my large capacitor bank back on the system to do some other fine tuning. Here's a picture of the bank. I still have one set of reeds available for connecting and have tried some locations and the results are mainly higher sparks, sometimes green sparks, sometimes blue sparks, sometimes ozone smell. I think I better get a few more relays as spares cause these will not last the whole testing phase. I also tried some feeding back the secondary into the primary side with some freaky results. Can't wait to really get to that point.

[am1ll3r]

WOW   nice looking cap bank. I haven't had a chance to do any further testing but I do have some question that I will be posting soon.


Cheers
am1ll3r

[allcanadian]

I don't want to confuse the issue too much but here is something to consider, the energy flow in an inductor never reverses it only charges polarity. As well using "electron flow" notation we start to see that the electrons on the negative (-) terminal is the initial "cause" for any flow in a circuit. The positive terminal is not a source of anything, it is an absence of electrons which produces a potential difference between the (+) and (-) terminals. In the diagram attached we see the electron flow and the "conventional flow" ie.  "current" would flow in the opposite direction to this electron flow but it should be remembered the current is not "cause" it is an effect. What happens when there is no current flow ? An area of compressed electrons or tension is the cause, could we charge a capacitor with electrons with no current flow?
Many of you may have noticed a bit of a paradox in your circuits, if you place a diode between the high self-inductance and circuit controller  the diode will not work to keep current flow limited to the primary and capacitance circuit because the infernal voltage keeps changing polarity, it acts "exactly" as a fluid would ---- an electrical fluid if you use "electron" flow.
Very interesting 
Even more interesting is the fact that when we speak of electrostatic induction, electric fields and charged bodies we are refering to charged bodies with a preponderance of electrons relative to another body with a lack of electrons(a potential difference) ---- there is no conventional current to be found. The conventional current usually appears when a charged body is discharged to ground  ----- or to a body of a lesser charge.