my smith kanapadz replication

[tianboon]

Don Smith's info

Thanks Joit,
I have to do more testing, is it possible that I ought to use NST instead of a FB transformer? and another thing , my SG did not have a steady stream "plasma" like what SR and Naudin had, mine is more like a car spark plug, I wonder if this are the main problem?

[Joit]

I dont think a NST is much different. Its more the Spark what makes the different.And therefor you could even use a Ignitioncoil to get the HV. But mainly i think it are the Coils what should be at resonance, to see 'something happen' and not a Wave or a close near pulsed Coils, what creates some disturbance.
What i do remeber of the main Things he says is, that it is the magnetic Field what creates the Energy, so you may have to match the Fields to eachother, and create with it the Power.
What do you use for your Frequency actually, an Inverter?

-Edit-
But o well, he says NST at his Schematic, so probatly it can make a Problem, that a FB Transformer is to much tied with the sec into the primary Coil.

[tianboon]

Don L Smith instructions

Hi Joit
I need to pick your brain again if you don't mind, I think I have to redo the HV coil again, primary as well secondary, I took things for granted, I didn't follow his instruction closely. before I buy a NST.

He mentioned on L1 coil he has 5 turns on a 2 inch dia PVC "with the connecting wires running through the inside of the tube"
What kind of wires are these? I got confused with this statement, can you elaborate what he was talking about?

Another thing is he got his L2 wound on a 3 inch transparent tube, where as my L1 just wound on top of the secondary, I think this is what you were refering to about the magnetic field produced on the coil. is this right? otherwise his schematic look simple enough and straight forward.

I did not see he mention about the wire gauge for L1, do you know of hand?

[Joit]

Hi Tianboon
No Problem, you may point out things, what i had maybe overlooked.
I do play around right now with some 24# Wire Coils with a Core of 28# Wire
When i pulse the core-coil i can create HV too. See Link. I can maybe come around that too, to look for an NST.

For L1 i assume, he takes the same Wire as for L2, since he creates a Induction and will have both Coils in Resonance, and that the Dividing from the Windings works right.
I read from the Pictures, that he use 5 Windings inside and 5 Windings outside, that he has a adjustable Coil like Tesla has.
It is the same Wire, just brought inside the Core.
Something else i do see at the first Drawings there is, that he use an Variac after the Inverter, to adjust the Voltage at the NST. Maybe you got such one, where you can try to adjust your FB Transformer. I do know, that these Transformers have a certain Frequency or Voltage too, where they give better Results.
A short conclusion again how i do see it.
He mentions, that each Volt gives crossing Flux Fields. As more Volts you got, as more crossing Fluxlines you got. So, he creates HV, does feeding that into thick Wire, what builds up a Magnetic Field, and transfer it into the pickup Coils, where the Resonance of the Coils is importend. For the Resonance, its may better, to have the Pickup outside, because, when you look at a Magnet or a Coil, the Magnet Field concentrates into the middle.
Placing the Pickup outside, the Distances from Wires are less Critical, since anything, like fluxfiels and windings are further apart.
And there, you need to create a pulsing Magnet Field, what creates the Power at the Wires.

[tianboon]

Adjustable Tesla Coil

Bare with me, I am trying to digest and comprehend what you are telling me, just by looking at the picture;you said about 5 winding inside and 5 winding outside, would you mind telling me in more detail about these 5 windings, the 5 winding inside was it wound on the 2 inch tubing ? and the other 5 winding outside was it wound on the 3 inch tubing? and how many turn? I am not familiar with adjustable Tesla coil.

Looking at the picture, there is a pair of red wire, I assume it is the primary going into the 3 inch tube and coming out on the right side of the tube there are 5 wires connected to the terminal strip, assuming the two red wire is winding #1 and the other single wire coming out of the tube and connected to 2+3 is winding #2, between 2+3 connected to 4 is winding #3, 4+5 connected together and connected to the terminal strip to where??? can you speculate, on the picture I did not see any SG and also he did not specify CW or CCW in the wire winding. I am curious about this 5 wires, I hope you can tell me and solve the problems I am facing.

I have an inverter and a variac, I don't understand why there is a need to feed the NST with variac at his first schematic, on the complete citcuit after the bridge rectifier he did has an inverter for the output.

Joit maybe you can also tell me how to tune the primary and secondary coil's resonance properly, what I did was by adding or subtracting the tank capacitors between these two coils, how would you do it properly?

[Guruji]

Schematic

Any schematic of Kapagen with details?
Thanks

[Joit]

Guruji
No, there are no exact Schematic from Kapanadze.
His first Device, what he had, he made a Contract with a Company, to dont publish anything about the Plans, the Company retired or anything, and still keep the rights over it.
Now he said, he will make a different Device, buthe cant use the old layout, and is more carefully about publish anything from it.


Tianboon
I go through the Picture and see top right.
One Variac, one Inverter.
Below the NST, under the NST left side of the Capacitors the SG,
The Caps are 1µF 4000V rated and in paralell, so i assume, it its the first primary Coil.
Now when you look at the upper Side of the PVC Tube, you see a second Tube sticked into the Big one.
The Primary is one Circuit, connected to the inverter over the SG and the Diodes.

Therefor the Schematic where it says above "Schematic of circuit in the picture"
match to the Device.

Further at the Picture are right Side 2 Wires connected to the Clamps, a Capacitor and a Diode,
so this is Part 2 from the Circuit.

The red wire seems to go at the underside to the smaller PVC Pipe and the Coils there.
Beforehand, i did not see the Patent from Tesla also about the adjustable Coils arrangement, its only sparly described,
but at this Pictures he use once a IRon Core, what he moves inside the Coil, and once another Coil.

At the Picture it looks like, there are 5 Wires at the outer Tube, and 5 at the smaller tube, he also do mention that at the description.

In this setup, the L-1 coil (the one going through the middle of the bigger coil) has 5 turns on a 2" PVC tube with the connecting wires running through the inside of the tube. The wires for the L-1 coil are multi-stranded. This is an adjustable coil setup for tuning the coils as per Nikola Tesla's design circa 1896.

He only dont say clear, if the connection Wires run through the middle, or the other 5 Windings, what he use for adjusting.
The adjusting Coil as it Tesla shows at his Patents seems are parallel connected and the one half from the Coil moved inside,
but at the Circuit diagram it shows L1 in paralell connected,
what may even would make sense, since you can change the Lenght from the Coil by moving it into itself.

Else he has only 5 Windings on his L1, and when he do use about 2000V he would have an Output from 400 V (2000 / 5 Windings), what sounds unusual, when the other Parts run on 110V.

The Direction from the Windings, the outer L2 do look for me like CCW,
L1 pretty match from the Lines, as if it would be CCW also,
so maybe the only Coil what is different wound is the inner part of L1.

With the Variac a the NST you can finetune the NST more to the Windings he made there,
because each Coils has certain Points where it reacts better on a certain Amount of Power.
You could see that at different Coils, when you feed them with different Frequencys and Volt, there are allways certain Points where the Coils gives out more Power, when you adjust the Frequency or the Voltage,
With the Variac he only adjust the Voltage then to the Frequency.

For bringing the Coils into Resonance, there is a Link on the Page DIY Tesla Coil tuner, else, i would take the same thickness of Wire, make the inner Coil, and multiply it with 4, for the Outer Coil.
When it dont really works, then cutting one Coil Pice by Pice to change the Lenght of it.
Else you may connect a Lamp to one from the Coils, pulse the other one with certain Frequency or Voltage, to see, at what Frequency is the best for L1.
I dont think, you can find the range of the Coils with Tank capacitors, they may are depending on the 60Hz 110(?) Volts from that inverter.

[Joit]

And, well, when you still wanna play around with your current Transformer,
you can try to keep the Caps as they are at the Circuit, and add different Sizes to your Coil, but connect them to Minus, plus the one between the End of the Coil.
I got sometimes better Results with that as in parallel.

[tianboon]

Thanks Joit, what do you think? between these two schematics , the "Schematic of circuit in picture" or "the complete circuits" which one would you suggest? same circuit just different in arrangment?? anyway I got a better understanding now in the circuit, nochmal vielen dank

[Joit]

Hi,
I think i would stuck at the one "Circuit of the Picture", because of the Variac,
and to adjust the Coils maybe a bit. He may found the right Resonance for the Coils, and therefor did leave the Variac out.
But mainly i think too, there is not much different between both Circuits, just the second one has a output of 12-24V.

[Guruji]

Kapandze

Thanks Joit for your response. His setup very similar to Don Smith. Anyone tried a Don Smith device?
Thanks

[tianboon]

Hi Joit,
I will try what you have suggested, following the schematic of circuit in picture, my delema is to get the right capacitors value like what he has shown in the picture, if I use a different value of capacitors the frequency will be different, does it make any different since the coil is adjustable? just to get into the right resonance between L1 and L2?

On the picture the L2 suppose to be wound on the 3" tube which I did not see it, he also mentioned about the oil filled capacitors were connected in series and "NOT" in parallel I wonder why?

[Joit]

Hi,
i got a Problem too, to get such high rated Capacitors, but so far i stay with my selfmade Capcitors., Glass of Water, Baking Soda, and 2 Alloy Strips, where one has a triangle Shape.
Baking Soda is sold also as Kaiser Natron from your local Drugstore, like Schlecker.

About adjusting, i played once with a Coil and did pulse it, and had this typical Spikes with ringdown.
At a certain Point, the Ringdown did change to a clean Sinus Wave.
Coils are usual similar to Capcitors, they do store a certain Amount of Energy, when there is a pulse through, before they fill up and are saturated.
With the Capacitor you can match 2 Coils to eachother, that they get the same Volume.
With this adjusting Coils you can tune them a bit, when they start to discharge.
So, once you adust how much they do load, and with the second Coil you can adjust when they start discharge.
I think he has it more easier, since he has his Coils allready done.
I think you can adjust the Frequency a certain range, when they are adjustable, as he had.
Also you maybe can try it with an Iron core, as he has a Picture from this Tesla Coil also.

For that Capacitors in serie or parallel, usually, as i do understand, a Capacitor in Serie increase the Voltage, what they can handle, in parallel, the capacitance increase, it is usual the same as resistors, in serie they reduce the Voltage and i can compare that with Caps in serie, what get more restistance.

His 2000V Caps at L1 would make sense, since he used around that Voltage at his NST. I only dont know, how much he had at his L2, but he did mention, that the Caps at L2 are to collect this Power, and it is there, when you need it, like a Valve, where the high pressure occurs at the Moment, when you need it.

I only have now nothing done from this Coils, and cant compare it, but i will, as soon as i have the my tools for it.

[tianboon]

Thanks Joit,
Another thing is I went through on your previous reply number 1337 post, you mentioned from reading the picture he uses 5 winding inside and 5 winding outside.
Can you clarify, what do you mean by inside and outside?

He uses 5 turn(winding) for his L1 on a 2" pvc tube, and this tube inserted inside the 3" tube where L2 is wound on a 3" tubing

Also a statement near the end he mentioned that L1 is 1/4 of L2 this make L2 equal to 20 turns? did I make a correct assumption? is he talking about the lenght of wires or the number of turns? since the diameter of L1's tubing is only 2"and this will give a certain x number centimeter in actual lenght of wire and certainly will not be 1/4 real lenght of wire from L2

[Joit]

Hi,
It did bother me, that he said, this is a tuneable Tesla Coil System.
I can be wrong, and he dont have the L1 divided into 2 halfs of 5 windings.
With inner and outer i mean, You can see something black trough the silver L2 there.
I assume it is L1. but it can be a shadow too.
But i thought, this is the one Half (outer) from L1, and again 5 Windings are inside on the smaller PVC tube, in parallel.
By moving the smaller PVC Tube inside, you can adjust L1.
That is my assumption.
Else L1 must be inside, this black Part at the upper Half from the Coil is a Shadow,
and he did tune it with the PVC Tube.