Bipolar Tesla Coil Radiant Energy Collector

[eugene.alternative.energy]

Here is a picture of an alternative setup, without the villard quadrupler full-wave cascade.

This was just a note I made on my android phone, and the capacitor the top of the secondary was just to signify a capacitance of the air-gap between the spark gap. There is no bifilar coil on this diagram. This picture doesn't superceed my original picture, it is merely a side-note to help illustrate what exactly is going on here. I made this as a brief reference, so if it doesn't work as good as the original circuit I posted, there is the reason why.

Perhaps an adjustable capacitor might be useful though instead of a sparkgap. The power supply in the picture I am attaching is just to illustrate that power is flowing in from 'somewhere'...

I have tested this setup (minus the capacitor and power supply on the secondary; with loose coupling 5 turns of copper coming off the secondary instead of a 4:1 step-up transformer...) and it does indeed charge capacitors at a relatively fast rate. It depends on the capacitors used, although as a standard, I am just now starting to use 1KV 4.7 NF capacitors for all my radiant energy circuits...

The attached picture is just a side note/reference...

Also see::
http://amasci.com/tesla/tmistk.html
http://www.free-energy-info.co.uk/Chapt7.html

[eugene.alternative.energy]

I just figured I would get another schematic out on the web to help those who are technically inclined to draw a bit of inspiration for their designs!

I understand this is not the ideal setup (Due to the minimal amounts of power production involved), but it is a start!

Might be useful for a radiant energy collector from a tesla coil for a school experiment or something...

[e2matrix]

Thanks for the additional info.   Nice work.   I do believe Tesla's patent 685957 can be expanded on and real usable power can be obtained by that basis.  Good luck with the project. 

[eugene.alternative.energy]

Here is a working one I just made that puts out around 0.7-0.8vdc on my multimeter.

Yet another example of bipolar tesla collector config. This is my demo for the front room to show it off to people!

Germanium rectifier bridge.
5KV ceramic caps; the caps for the collector uses a number of caps tied in parallel, I used ten.

I found that different value caps across the primary and across the "bridge" boosted the circuit in different ways. Remember that caps pass ac while maintaining dc polarity! I think it is a nifty device. It utilizes potential difference between the two tesla coils and ground. Also works great "floating", or, not connected to ground. The flat sheet is aluminium electret. The round sphere is aluminum tesla coil ball.

Another one to try is pyrite cat whisker rectifier and mica caps! Just a thought!