Scalar Wave - Energy

[sparks]

   I think there is a little doppler effect going on when we excite electrons into conduction bands.  If an electron is a standing wave it must have an associated frequency of oscillation.  So as an electron moves towards you you get  blueshifts and you SEE ultraviolet.  Wheras when it moves away from you you get red shifts.  The mass itself doesnt have to get all the way to your receiver it is preceded by the emwaves it is transmitting continously as it stands there.
like a train whistle.  The oscillator never gets to you but you hear it change frequency depending on relative motion.

[xee2]

@ Loner

I did/do understand that part

Good. So all it takes to light the tube is at least 500 volts AC.

Now the next step is to see that the AC goes through a capacitor. I am assuming that you already know this. What you may not know, because it really is more an RF thing, is that the amount of energy that gets through the capacitor depends on the frequency of the AC. The higher the frequency is the smaller the capacitance has to be for the energy to go through it.

So if 500 volt AC is connected to each side of the tube it will light. And, if a capacitor with a large enough capacitance is then put in series with the tube, the tube will still light. If you have not done this, it is something you should try.

Note that the capacitor is just two metal plates separated by an air gap. So if the capacitor is replaces with two conductors that are not directly connected they will be a small capacitor. So the tube will still light with just two capacitively coupled pieces of metal which could be wires. BUT, only if the capacitance is large enough for the AC frequency to get through.

The capacitor is not an all or nothing thing. The amount of energy getting through depends on the frequency. So, if the frequency is not high enough to allow all of the power to get through the capacitor there will still be a small amount getting through. If not all of the energy is getting through the capacitor then the voltage across the tube will be reduced. But this can be compensated for by increasing the supply voltage.

In the one wire tube. There is capacitance between the tube and HV power supply. If the AC frequency is high enough and the HV supply voltage is high enough then the tube will light. I think this is an important experiment to understand.

[xee2]

@ Loner

You can also capacitively couple into both ends of the tube like this.

A neon bulb does the same thing but only needs 100 volts instead of 500 volts.

[sparks]

   I was going to expand my experiment by increasing the size of the wire by replacing the wire with a piece of copper tubing about two inches in diameter.  Then cluster a number of bulbs around it.  Monitor the current flow to the supply of the transmitter to see if there was an increase in current draw with the bulbs in or out of the field of the antennae aka transmission line.  Kinda busy right now performing surgery on electric slaves invented byTesla in his early years.  I in fact worked on one of Westinghouse's first single phase electric motors.  No commutator.  This motor predated the repulsion induction motors commonly used for singlephase motor applications from the 1920's through the 60's when their use fell off in lieu of the single phase capacitor start and run motors we have today.  The motor took the 60hz signal and used inductors of different mass in series connection with the two identical windings inside the motor.  The delay caused by the current flows in the "chokes"  Causes  first one winding to be fired then the second winding to be fired. Creating a rotating magnetic field.    I could not for the life of me understand why the repulsion induction motor was ever produced and for that matter the single phase motors now   in common use today.  I digress but this motor had Tesla written all over it.  Alot of Tesla's patents show chokes between the secondary of the supply transformer in series with the rest of the circuit.  One on each end of the standard supply transformer.  If the rest of the circuit is like that old electric motor of ingenious design then I would imagine that the two lines coming in have already seen a frequency boost before they ever see the rest of the circuit.  The two chokes taking the sinsuoidal output of the supply transformer and converting it to a very high amplitude very low duty cycle input into his transmission lines.  This would allow him to take the 60hz input sinsouid and convert it into very very short duty waves of very high amplitude. 

[Magluvin]

Sparks
So do ya think that the chokes were considered "extra coils" ?  ;]

Mags