Kicks explained

[sparks]

   I think that if you have a coil of high self-inductance and wrap it around a secondary coil.  Just a couple of turns the magnetic field moves axially across the primary coil at high speed. Especially if the primary coils interior is magnetically saturated by the secondary winding.  This results in alot more transfer of energy than using an iron core and wasting time and energy screwing around with magnetic domains of the iron.  The magnetic field of each turn acts as the primary for the next turn and the induced voltage of the secondary turn generates a magnetic response and becomes the primary for the next unenergized turn. This results in an axial flow of magnetism that I would suspect is pretty damn quick. Your secondary turns are experiencing a fast moving magnetic field and respond according to ampere's law. 

[Grumpy]

That patent was in 1886.  It was by no means the "final word" regarding Tesla's work.  Tesla went beyond the two-coil - loosely coupled - resonant-rise type of system.

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To quote Richard Hull in his article on his work with the Tesla Magnifier:
http://www.stargazing.net/Astroman/Magnifier.html

"There is much in his (Tesla's colorado Springs Notes) notes that becomes manifest only upon experimentation."

[wattsup]

@Erfinder

Let me just vulgarize this subject to my grade 1 level.

So perfect resonance is perfect balance.

As an analogy, if I took a 10 pound steel ball and balanced it on the tip of a nail so it will stand still, this could also be considered perfect resonance even though it is perfectly still. If the ball tips more to one side, that side will have to exert counter force to hold it unbalanced wasting energy. At the same time from the other side of this unbalanced condition, you will have to pull back somewhat to not unbalance the ball even further, so again from the other side there is an ineffecient use of energy. When the ball is in balance, it requires minimal energy to keep it balanced.

So under resonance, the energy feeding the circuit is equal to the energy leaving the circuit making the medium of transformation as transparent as possible to other adverse conditions. So resonance = maximum effeciency = perfect balance.

According to my observations and trials, I have come to the conclusion that to achieve resonance is like when we do water treatment. We let the water analysis decide the treatment. What I mean is when you make a circuit with a predetermined anticipated end result, you will struggle indefinitely because the end results will most likeley not be what you hoped for. So you push more power, but something gets hot, or you increase the pulsation, but amperage goes down. The fact is, any circuit that runs at resonance is at its maximum performance. If this maximum performance is not what is required, then changes to the circuit should be considered and not only changes to its operational parameters.

Teslas devices in the material sense are well balanced. Copper weight ratios. Wire length ratios, induction to capacitance ratios, etc. If the physical components are well matched, then the resonance performance will produce the results you had anticipated. So the components themselves will decide the resonance they need to be in balance.

[aleks]

One thing you are seemingly forgetting about Tesla is that he was a venture capitalist. His capital were his patents. Why the hell in the world he would work on Niagara power plant if he had a source of free abundant electricity? Why not just manufacture and sell power devices that do the job? The answer is far simpler: Tesla had no convenient free energy source like SM TPU, for example. Tesla dreamed of power transmissions over distance, there is even no certainity about Wardenclyffe being a generator. It could have been just a transmitter without power generation. Probably there is little sense in using Tesla's terminology and approaches in this TPU area. Well, while TPU devices and Tesla's patents are similar and probably produced some similar performance, I do not see a motivation to produce free energy behind Tesla's work. He had good designs, but they were used to bounce potential-kinetic EM energies around in a most efficient way. Well, he did find some anomalous things, but his own reports on that are not publicly available.

On the resonance thing. When several objects or particles are at kinetic resonance, they share energy and thus they become a whole meaning every single object you add multiplies the overall effect (the capacity and thus the potential energy storage represented by the system).

[sparks]

   
      I look at resonance as something happening that will cause it to happen again in the future.
Time travel without a whole bunch of energy input.
      If you look at Tesla's energy transmitter he uses a similar pancake coil but I believe it is configured differently.  He doesn't want to store any energy he wants to transmit it.  The pancake coil is wrapped with one or two coils around it's outer circumference making the primary.  This he pulses at the frequency he wants for the carrier which is also the signal.  But this primary  coil is just to get the magnetic field to flow across the first few outer turns.  This is a coil of high selfinductance.  The magnetic field compressing as it travels towards the inside of the coil.  This results in more and more amplitude in each successive turn the increasing magnetic flux crosses.  By the time you get to the turn that is in the center the voltage could be in the 100's of thousands.  Same frequency at higher amplitude by the time it reaches the last coil which is attached to the ballon.  This defies no laws of energy conservation.  It appears to be a method of grabbing energy and bringing it forward in time.