Tesla's Magnifying Transmitter (amplify electricity)

[angryScientist]

So the drum of insulation only increases the self capacitance of the extra coil slightly at low frequencies. At high frequencies, "if the points of maximum pressure should be shifted below the terminal D" then dielectric effects differ and the self capacitance of the coil increases dramatically. The coil could effectively be change from a coil to a capacitor.

The coil B is wound on a frame of drum D1 of insulating material, with its turns close together. I have discovered that when so wound the effect of the small radius of curvature of the wire itself is overcome and the coil behaves as a conductor of large radius of curvature, corresponding to the at of the drum. This feature is of considerable  practical importance and is  applicable not only in this special instance but generally.

With the ability to change the phase a high power signal I could imagine all sorts of possibilities. With two frequencies the beat freq. could be completely changed. Maybe even some DC pumping action.

[angryScientist]

Sorry, I almost forgot.

I watch the second half of this short video. It changed my way of thinking a little bit.

MIT Physics Demo -- Dissectible Capacitor (2:55)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ckpQW9sdUg

[sparks]

  I believe what Tesla is saying is that even though the wiregauge is real small the whole coil itself resistance wise acts as a conductor whose wire gauge would be that of the diameter of the drum.  The skin effect.  The longitudinal wave doesnt have to deal with the resistance of the wire it just skips from turn to turn like the whole coil is a hollow core transmission line of very very very large wire gauge.  Ac losses due to selfinduction on transmission lines pisses off the power companies.  Maybe they should add some capacitors down at the end to exploit resonance instead of pushing voltages against resistance.  Then hook the transmission lines to transformers once the nodes and antinodes are estabished on the wire. That was Teslas idea.  They didnt buy it and so now they rectify the ac coming out of the plants and send it out as hv dc.  The heating losses of the semiconductors barely out weighs the the impedance losses of the transmission lines.  They got nothing better to do than waste money so what the hell.

[angryScientist]

  I believe what Tesla is saying is that even though the wiregauge is real small the whole coil itself resistance wise acts as a conductor whose wire gauge would be that of the diameter of the drum.  The skin effect.  The longitudinal wave doesnt have to deal with the resistance of the wire it just skips from turn to turn like the whole coil is a hollow core transmission line of very very very large wire gauge.

Right, just skips from turn to turn. But can the degree of that effect be changed? I want to change the timing and position of nodes and maximal. It would be of enormous benefit.

Ac losses due to selfinduction on transmission lines pisses off the power companies.  Maybe they should add some capacitors down at the end to exploit resonance instead of pushing voltages against resistance.  Then hook the transmission lines to transformers once the nodes and antinodes are estabished on the wire. That was Teslas idea.  They didnt buy it and so now they rectify the ac coming out of the plants and send it out as hv dc.  The heating losses of the semiconductors barely out weighs the the impedance losses of the transmission lines.  They got nothing better to do than waste money so what the hell.


They do pay some attention to that fact. We as consumers don't and we could save some money if we did.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_factor

Because of the costs of larger equipment and wasted energy, electrical utilities will usually charge a higher cost to industrial or commercial customers where there is a low power factor.

Linear loads with low power factor (such as induction motors) can be corrected with a passive network of capacitors or inductors. Non-linear loads, such as rectifiers, distort the current drawn from the system. In such cases, active or passive power factor correction may be used to counteract the distortion and raise power factor. The devices for correction of power factor may be at a central substation, or spread out over a distribution system, or built into power-consuming equipment.

[jadaro2600]

Bearing in mind the mess that humanity is in, it is hard to see how anybody
who had the key could justify not getting it out to as many people as possible
as soon as possible.

I think radioactivity is proof of over unity.  I wouldn't want to spread this.

I think I see what you mean though.  I think we'll learn, in the end, that this or any other key, will unlock something beautiful, but completely destructive.

Tesla's spark gap machine, reminds me of the way an aging atom throws an alpha or beta particle ..in beta cells, such as a radium tipped electrode in a hollow silvered sphere, this is essentially what is happening.  I think it notable that the rate at which something decays relative to the amount of material decaying creates the apparition of current pulses ( in radioactive decay - as mentioned, this is voltage differentials ) a similar thing is happening.

Tesla is just scaling the atom up to the size of a transmitter and using stable materials to replicate this effect.  The receiver is thus shaped as the transmitter ( and as a result ) ..this makes one machine tend to the other as if one decaying atom tends to the environment around it.