ENERGY AMPLIFICATION

[jbignes5]

 I Agree. The air gap does present a connection to the environment. If I am right and we condense plasma across the gap then the plasma has to come from around us and is still connected to the environment. The impedance is the rate of condensing across the gap of the excited plasma with the potential difference between the two electrodes driving the condensing rate as well. The source of the plasma is the Sun we take advantage of 24/7.
Layers upon layers of plasma density surround our planet each layer having a certain conductivity of the Ionospheres potential (+365kv).
In effect we have a plasma TV going on around our planet. With the ionosphere being the back light at night and day. This explains the no stars seen by humans around our planet. The light being merely electromagnetic in nature. Our eyes are not designed to see light in that way.

So yes the Gap is important but not entirely necessary as per Tesla. The design changes a bit using 3 caps across a coil or 2 caps and an extra coil through a primary coil. I have to link to the Colorado notes for that design.

So the break here is a rotary break and to the left of the main cap and primary coil.

Second picture is with the extra coil

Third picture is an original exciter circuit with spark gap as interrupter.

The big difference is the wording BREAK or BR. Device

Coincidentally does the 3 cap design look familiar? Reminds me of the Turkey demo...

Now although these used caps Tesla was working on one terminal bifilar coils as inductive caps that he could scoop off energy through. Inductively. In the Colorado notes he shows this, picture 4 shown below.

The 5th picture below is the coil or extra coil he talks about in the Notes on entry July 16, 1899.

Reference: http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/tesla/coloradonotes/coloradonotes04.htm

[Magluvin]

I wonder what dc voltage system was used around the time of the patent, like what level of input voltage was available for city lighting back then?

Just thinking about the primary as shown and what size cap and voltage the cap would generally charge to. Seems like some high voltage to start with and then higher in the cap before switch closing, then higher voltage out of the secondary to produce ozone.

Or is it even necessary to go HV to start messing with this?  Just wondering if a heavy pri of 5 or so turns with a cap might oscillate longer than expected. I have some high strand number 4awg, or would we be looking at litz preferably? Then a cap. Probably go for some hv caps online of a few diff values.

Dunno. Just thinkin on it some

Mags

[Magluvin]

I did a sim of an LRC made up of 100uh, 1uf and a 10uohm resistance. Charging up the inductor for 1ms with 5v, the oscillation started at 5.8v, 16khz.
It took 39sec to ring down to 1v.  Just an experiment in resistive loss in this case. The LC would have to have very low resistance to ring like that. The cap, the pri, the connections.  So to get a setup to ring for hours would mean what? Something there assisting that longevity?

Mags

[sm0ky2]

You need to qualify that by stating that to "YOU",,

it does not matter at all to me.

And you are discussing this topic for what?

[sm0ky2]

@jb


Yes exactly
Coils have a capacitance and therefore can replace capacitors
But their inductance makes them twice as powerful as a
capacitor of the same value.


@ mags
"Hv" is a matter of perspective
Tesla could just as easily convert 10 V into 1 million
As he could 20v into 50


It's all a matter of the # of turns in the transformer


What is important is the range of distance the primary
voltage will spark, and the range of frequencies that
allows us to adjust through with the variable spark gap
within this range.


The higher the voltage of the primary, the wider the bandwidth
of frequencies we can access.


The reason Tesla pushed the limits of voltage, was to push the
Limits of Frequency.