I have been studying different methods of breaking arcs of late, trying to understand the true meaning of unidirectional impulses.
It would seem that it is nothing more than a short pulse with fast rise and fall times and can even be done with ac when the arc break is done synchronized with the top of the ac wave.
When used with a capacitor discharge, the trick to unidirectional impulse is to prevent oscillations of reverse polarity. Of course, the high voltage diode could be of use in that situation.
The real question of the stinging impulse is whether or not it is even a real phenomena or something completely different than has been reported by Vassilatos.
Given that with todays high voltage, high current pulses created in labs around the world, why has this stinging impulse phenomena never been reported?
I also wonder if anyone here, perhaps during experimentation with inductive loads and their ability to produce BEMF spikes has experienced anything like this?
Here are words reportedly from an interview with Tesla: "Then, sometimes, a particle larger than an electron, but still very tiny, would break off from the cathode, pass out of the tube and hit him. He said he could feel a sharp, stinging pain where it entered his body, and again at the place where it passed out.
That a particle or particles are involved is in direct opposition to the story portrayed by Vassilatos. Does anyone have the writings of Tesla where the Vassilatos story originated or is this account simply a Gary Vassilatos wet dream? If Tesla wrote the original account then that is a book that I would buy.
Any help would be appreciated
It would seem that it is nothing more than a short pulse with fast rise and fall times and can even be done with ac when the arc break is done synchronized with the top of the ac wave.
When used with a capacitor discharge, the trick to unidirectional impulse is to prevent oscillations of reverse polarity. Of course, the high voltage diode could be of use in that situation.
The real question of the stinging impulse is whether or not it is even a real phenomena or something completely different than has been reported by Vassilatos.
Given that with todays high voltage, high current pulses created in labs around the world, why has this stinging impulse phenomena never been reported?
I also wonder if anyone here, perhaps during experimentation with inductive loads and their ability to produce BEMF spikes has experienced anything like this?
Here are words reportedly from an interview with Tesla: "Then, sometimes, a particle larger than an electron, but still very tiny, would break off from the cathode, pass out of the tube and hit him. He said he could feel a sharp, stinging pain where it entered his body, and again at the place where it passed out.
That a particle or particles are involved is in direct opposition to the story portrayed by Vassilatos. Does anyone have the writings of Tesla where the Vassilatos story originated or is this account simply a Gary Vassilatos wet dream? If Tesla wrote the original account then that is a book that I would buy.
Any help would be appreciated
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