Tesla IMPEDANCE PHENOMENA - FIG 183C

[darkspeed]

Testing gap materials..

[Grumpy]

Why the copper straps?  Looks like they make a "box".

Lay a 4ft flourescent bulb in there if you have one.

Notice the copper tubing - large surface area - uninsulated.

Lots of bad stuff coming out of the gap - don't look at it - I lay safetly sunglasses over mine when it is that bright.

Any difference which side of center the gap is placed?

No diodes?  AC?

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EDIT:  I wonder what Tesla meant by the term "conversion"...

[the_big_m_in_ok]

Grumpy said:

EDIT:  I wonder what Tesla meant by the term "conversion"...

Tesla has a "condenser"(capacitor) in his drawings.  But without at least one diode on a rail, he wouldn't get DC.  "D" are spark gaps.  "G" is probably the load.  They're in the correct place to be the load in the drawings.
Is he *converting* AC somehow with the capacitor?  The patent should be read for more details.
Re-edit:

Here's the patent...

http://www.google.com/patents?id=66VeAAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4#v=onepage&q=&f=false

Between Lines 89-95 of the second column, Tesla is converting the electrical impulses from a high tension and small volume, to a low tension and large volume.
I would only assume he was trying to use the invention as a coil-less transformer?

--Lee

[darkspeed]

Why the copper straps?  Looks like they make a "box".

Lay a 4ft flourescent bulb in there if you have one.

Notice the copper tubing - large surface area - uninsulated.

Lots of bad stuff coming out of the gap - don't look at it - I lay safetly sunglasses over mine when it is that bright.

Any difference which side of center the gap is placed?

No diodes?  AC?

==========================================

EDIT:  I wonder what Tesla meant by the term "conversion"...

The copper straps slide up and down to tune the load.

What looks like a mirror is actually a gold coated welding shield insert.

There is quite a large electromagnet that sits over the gap and holds the viewer insert.. not shown..

Here is the full bridge diode I use when i need it 7.5k @ 1a but seems to work fine with the 15k NTS

With the carbon rods and the gap way off center, the spark is different...

[Grumpy]

Oops.   Wrong circuit.

What Darkspeed shows is more similar to this "Magician circuit" to produce damped pulses:

Counsel

Did you find that that was the best condition for transmitting energy without the use of wire?

Tesla

No, I did not use that method when I was transmitting energy.  I used it only in the production of those freaks for which I have been called a magician.  If I had used merely undamped waves, I would have been an ordinary electrician like everybody else.