Tesla's Magnifying Transmitter (amplify electricity)

[bboj]

Can you explain how can it self adjust?
Thanks

[AbbaRue]

I have a quick question about Tesla Coils:
Does twisted wire like you have in lamp cord or speaker wire work well for a Tesla Coil, or flat Tesla Transformer? 
All the diagrams I see always use solid magnet wire, but I have lots of twisted wire on hand. 
Speaker wire is readily available in all electronic stores, but single strand magnet wire is usually only available
if you order it online from somewhere. 
It would be nice to see a link to a Tesla Coil that is working well and uses twisted wire for the secondary. 
I do know people like to avoid using it because it is harder to fit stranded wire into inductance formulas. 

[Pete_r_pan]

Hey guys. I am new to this board and this very long thread, and must admit I am only on page 24 so far, so if this has already been addressed, my apologies.

Anyone hear have a music background? Think in Octaves ;-)

The extra coil that Tesla talks about provides an induced feedback loop (rather than adding power he is adding potential) to the primary coil which in turn drives harder into the secondary coil. Resonance and exponential amplification can only occur in a system with a feedback loop. The bifilar of the secondary provides feedback to to the secondary which boosts that coils output potential as more and more load is added the coil drives the feedback loop (extra coil) back into the primary which amplifies the flow into the secondary. The only limitations in this system are hardware (should be cold, so I question this one) and the electrical potential of the vacuum.

IMO the magnets perpendicular to the spark gap provide 3 functions:
1. to entrain the spark to travel a straight path (shortest path) across the gap
2. to cause the spark to collapse faster
3. to square the waveform.

I have a quick question for any of you who may know... His early coils, and even some of his secondary coils on tesla coils were not pancakes but were cones (as seen by figure 2 in the attached pdf). Has anyone worked with nested cones at all?

Cheers!
PP

[Pete_r_pan]

If any of that made sense. <hangs head>

[Pete_r_pan]

There is WAY too much in my head.

Also, pay attention to the lengths of wire and number of turns that Tesla uses. In harmonics this is incredibly important, although from what I can tell his system should be self correcting. I am sure the golden ratio is all over his work, though. :-D

PP