Hairpin Project

[sparks]

@resonanceman

     In good time.    Take a Tesla pancake coil and set it on its side.  Look at it.  What you have is a very short conductor with a huge cross section and surface area.   When the haripin coil is placed so that its magnetic field disruption intersects the superthin large diameter  and surface area conductor you get the most bang for the buck.  Positive on top of the conductor negative on the bottom.  Lots of polarization of charge.   Electrons dont have to go too far before they find themselves on a capacitor plate.  Just head towards the end of the conductor they are in already.

[jadaro2600]

I'm a greatly embarrassed to ask this, but  can someone please post a newer circuit diagram of the device in question - I know this is supposed to be a prototyping thread, but the original circuit diagram is cryptic - there have been modern replications, but the details still elude me.

I think it would favor the idea to post a newer one.

Additionally, the idea of textual content of patents is to be able to 'see' the device without the use of pictures.  If a patent fails to materialize in the mind, then it shouldn't be patented ( and the author should consider outsourcing the description to a more knowledgeable diction of the subject matter at hand ).  Patents were created back in the days when images were hand drawn, copies were hard to come by, and textual information was the primary mode of long distance communication.

[resonanceman]

exactly.I will read it again.
I thought the induction coil made the high voltage which 'fills' the caps which make the sparks.

Jeanna

Yes........the caps will be filling  as the voltage rises
However at this point  the caps are not needed.

If we  do not have enough power to drive  the voltage high enough  to cause  it to jump the spark  gap .......nothing happens

If we remove  the caps from the circuit   the voltage will rise  faster and jump the gap sooner........but then it is done.......

The function of the caps  are to isolate the rods of the hairpin  from  the majority of the " normal " electricity and  to give the radiant energy  an easy path to follow

For " normal " electricity  the caps work as  current limiting caps. They stop MOST of the normal electricity......the  bar across the top shorts out the rest.

gary

[resonanceman]

The more massive the conductor being effected by the magnetic field disruption than the more polarization of the charge or the more voltage appearing on the ends of that conductor.

I have been thinking  about this.
Perhaps this is a reason  the Gray conversion tube has plates instead of wires.
I have just learned that capacitance is important  with radiant energy..... plates would have much more capacitance than  wires

gary

[resonanceman]

I just saw that when I made an hourglass and made the 2 coils wound in the opposite way it snuffed out the voltage.
Now, this fact makes a lot of sense to me.

Jeanna

did  you try reversing  the connections on the second coil ?

gary