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For the last 10 years, I have been experimenting quietly with a little-pursued aspect of the work of Nikola Tesla - Pancake Coils. I have found some extraordinary properties of these coils, the most fascinating of all the incredible array of electrical discharges such coils can produce. To date I have wound more than 150 successful versions of these coils, and probably an equal number of failures (if not more). This work started after uncovering a series of hidden underground rooms from 1897 in the home of early Tesla Coil and X-Ray Pioneer Thomas Burton Kinraide.
Original Kinraide Coil Spark Photo
In Kinraide's home we found the earliest known Tesla Coils from the 1890s (built by Kinraide), and over 500 glass plate negatives of highly detailed rare electrical discharges. Kinraide is perhaps the only person in history to study (and understand) high frequency discharges to the degree of Tesla.
Over the last two years, I have been uncovering some very unusual traits of one particular form of discharge - the "Phantom Streams" - and many new and unusual experiments can be made with them.
Phantom Streams and peculiar sparks
I've been consistently reproducing Kinraide and Tesla's work in these areas, and have sold a few dozen of these coils to researchers around the world for further study.
I want to make it perfectly clear up front that I have not at any time encountered any forms of free energy in this research, or have ever encountered output powers greater than the applied input powers of these apparatus, or phenomena that can't be explained by traditional science. I say this in effort to be completely honest with my research. I'm not looking for free energy, my efforts have been to simply reproduce as closely as possible the work of Tesla and a few rare contemporaries as Kinraide. (I find a lot of people interested in Tesla attempt to run before they can walk...which is why I focus on his early work, where he obtained the bulk of his electrical knowledge). I have a working knowledge of over 350 antique apparatus from the 1890s, having collected these items my entire life. For the last decade my research has consumed an even greater amount of time than my normal 40-hour work week...well over 300 days per year into the long hours of night. Its been very rewarding, but has taken its toll on me
as it would anyone.
This past week I have finally reached the efficiencies claimed by Tesla with the capabilities of these coils - I have witnessed a complete 360 degree spherical mass of electrical discharges 24" in diameter from a coil consuming only 30 watts of power from a standard 110V circuit. This proves that just because a concept is old, it is far from archaic.
The discharges are too faint to be accurately captured on camera, but a good idea of their appearance in general is here:
Phantom Streams from Pancake Coil
The thickness of the streams can reach 1/4" or more when produced properly. I have a found a novel way of showing the faint streams presence on camera with the help of a special turn of the century Geissler Tube in this Youtube video:
YouTube - Phantom Streams from Pancake Coil documented using Turn of the Century Oscilloscope Tube
A technical analysis of the characteristics of these and other streams is being prepared. The whole formation of electrical sparks is exhaggerated in these streams and shown visibly for the first time in over a century. The brush discharge starts off oscillatory, but as power levels are small the rest of the discharge gives way only to the positively charged leaders of the sparks in a process normally happening too quickly to see in larger apparatus. I will be exhibiting many of these coils live at upcoming lectures in the future, along with scientific analysis of how they work from an engineering perspective.
The peculiarities of the discharges offer some insight into the possibilities of new applications for high frequency coils. They also offer some historical insight into the real work and research Tesla was doing in the mid to late 1890s in New York.
Jeff Behary
The Turn Of The Century Electrotherapy Museum
For the last 10 years, I have been experimenting quietly with a little-pursued aspect of the work of Nikola Tesla - Pancake Coils. I have found some extraordinary properties of these coils, the most fascinating of all the incredible array of electrical discharges such coils can produce. To date I have wound more than 150 successful versions of these coils, and probably an equal number of failures (if not more). This work started after uncovering a series of hidden underground rooms from 1897 in the home of early Tesla Coil and X-Ray Pioneer Thomas Burton Kinraide.
Original Kinraide Coil Spark Photo
In Kinraide's home we found the earliest known Tesla Coils from the 1890s (built by Kinraide), and over 500 glass plate negatives of highly detailed rare electrical discharges. Kinraide is perhaps the only person in history to study (and understand) high frequency discharges to the degree of Tesla.
Over the last two years, I have been uncovering some very unusual traits of one particular form of discharge - the "Phantom Streams" - and many new and unusual experiments can be made with them.
Phantom Streams and peculiar sparks
I've been consistently reproducing Kinraide and Tesla's work in these areas, and have sold a few dozen of these coils to researchers around the world for further study.
I want to make it perfectly clear up front that I have not at any time encountered any forms of free energy in this research, or have ever encountered output powers greater than the applied input powers of these apparatus, or phenomena that can't be explained by traditional science. I say this in effort to be completely honest with my research. I'm not looking for free energy, my efforts have been to simply reproduce as closely as possible the work of Tesla and a few rare contemporaries as Kinraide. (I find a lot of people interested in Tesla attempt to run before they can walk...which is why I focus on his early work, where he obtained the bulk of his electrical knowledge). I have a working knowledge of over 350 antique apparatus from the 1890s, having collected these items my entire life. For the last decade my research has consumed an even greater amount of time than my normal 40-hour work week...well over 300 days per year into the long hours of night. Its been very rewarding, but has taken its toll on me
as it would anyone.
This past week I have finally reached the efficiencies claimed by Tesla with the capabilities of these coils - I have witnessed a complete 360 degree spherical mass of electrical discharges 24" in diameter from a coil consuming only 30 watts of power from a standard 110V circuit. This proves that just because a concept is old, it is far from archaic.
The discharges are too faint to be accurately captured on camera, but a good idea of their appearance in general is here:
Phantom Streams from Pancake Coil
The thickness of the streams can reach 1/4" or more when produced properly. I have a found a novel way of showing the faint streams presence on camera with the help of a special turn of the century Geissler Tube in this Youtube video:
YouTube - Phantom Streams from Pancake Coil documented using Turn of the Century Oscilloscope Tube
A technical analysis of the characteristics of these and other streams is being prepared. The whole formation of electrical sparks is exhaggerated in these streams and shown visibly for the first time in over a century. The brush discharge starts off oscillatory, but as power levels are small the rest of the discharge gives way only to the positively charged leaders of the sparks in a process normally happening too quickly to see in larger apparatus. I will be exhibiting many of these coils live at upcoming lectures in the future, along with scientific analysis of how they work from an engineering perspective.
The peculiarities of the discharges offer some insight into the possibilities of new applications for high frequency coils. They also offer some historical insight into the real work and research Tesla was doing in the mid to late 1890s in New York.
Jeff Behary
The Turn Of The Century Electrotherapy Museum
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