Great video! I'm sure you've heard of Don Smith already, but if you haven't, I'd recommend you go and watch some of his seminars. He describes basically using these same theories to do some interesting things.
Tesla coils today are generally done solely with "sparks" in mind, the bigger the better. However, the original Tesla coil's Tesla developed did not produce sparks, at least not intentionally. Instead they were used as a form of power transmission that doesn't require wires. If you look at the image of the coil operating you'll notice the red lamp on the septic alarm in the background illuminated. That lamp is a good 40ft away from the coil. That's the the raw RF exciting the lamp. However, if you were to take just a secondary coil with the same specifications resonance as the one on the coil, it too will be able to resonate over long distances. And when it resonates, it will produce voltage. This was Tesla's concept. To install large coils all over the world that would transmit power to homes and industry without the use of wires. One interesting effect supposedly (I haven't tested this myself) is that placing coils to "receive" the power do no load the transmitting coil. In other words, if you can receive 5000 Watts of power on one coil, you could install thousands of coils and receive 5000 Watts of power on all of them. It's not magic, it works just like the radio in your car. The power is being transmitted out there into the air and ground. It doesn't matter how many people "tune in" to listen, it doesn't change each persons signal level. Tesla's coil's for power transmission didn't use toroids to generate sparks, they instead used a "third coil" which transmitted the power.
amen! yup, capacitive coupling aka dielectric induction, to a twin/matched receiver, is a way to capture/store it 🤓 Single-wire "waveguide" (transmission line) is one way I've shown on my channel (the transmitted energy is stored in supercapacitors, powering a car radiator fan). Thanks for the thorough walk-through, your 'conversational' tone is easy to follow.
Great video! I'm sure you've heard of Don Smith already, but if you haven't, I'd recommend you go and watch some of his seminars. He describes basically using these same theories to do some interesting things.
Sparks are cool but how do you capture the energy and store it?
Tesla coils today are generally done solely with "sparks" in mind, the bigger the better. However, the original Tesla coil's Tesla developed did not produce sparks, at least not intentionally. Instead they were used as a form of power transmission that doesn't require wires. If you look at the image of the coil operating you'll notice the red lamp on the septic alarm in the background illuminated. That lamp is a good 40ft away from the coil. That's the the raw RF exciting the lamp. However, if you were to take just a secondary coil with the same specifications resonance as the one on the coil, it too will be able to resonate over long distances. And when it resonates, it will produce voltage. This was Tesla's concept. To install large coils all over the world that would transmit power to homes and industry without the use of wires. One interesting effect supposedly (I haven't tested this myself) is that placing coils to "receive" the power do no load the transmitting coil. In other words, if you can receive 5000 Watts of power on one coil, you could install thousands of coils and receive 5000 Watts of power on all of them. It's not magic, it works just like the radio in your car. The power is being transmitted out there into the air and ground. It doesn't matter how many people "tune in" to listen, it doesn't change each persons signal level. Tesla's coil's for power transmission didn't use toroids to generate sparks, they instead used a "third coil" which transmitted the power.
amen! yup, capacitive coupling aka dielectric induction, to a twin/matched receiver, is a way to capture/store it 🤓
Single-wire "waveguide" (transmission line) is one way I've shown on my channel (the transmitted energy is stored in supercapacitors, powering a car radiator fan).
Thanks for the thorough walk-through, your 'conversational' tone is easy to follow.