I have an idea about Tesla's Radiant energy and would like a little peer review.
I have studied Tesla and built some of his circuits. In particular I have studied and built a "pancake" coil and I have built a "hair pin circuit". If your not too sure what these are, a little search on the internet will yield a ton of information. Send me a message if your still not too clear. What strikes me as strange is what is the mechanism between the primary and secondary? What is the connection from energizing the primary and getting that energy to the secondary to produce obvious high voltage results?? If you look at a pancake coil you will find that the magnetic coupling between the two is incredible weak. On top of that the amperage going through the primary is really small and as a result the magnetic field produced is also really small. Again, how does the energy get from the primary to the secondary? It just just doesn't make sense if you think it in terms of magnetic fields. Conventional transformers, the magnetic field of primary is strongly coupled with secondary so that the fields have the greatest effect from one to the other. But Tesla coils don't seem to work this way. Now, I have read peoples best attempts at explaining how Tesla transformers work, but they never seem to have a strong explanation of the link from primary to secondary. And saying that Tesla transformers work because they are resonant transformers is not a good explanation.
Conventional transformers work by using amperage in primary to create magnetic field to create amperage in secondary. The connecting feature between the two is the magnetic field. And we all have played with magnets as kids, so we can understand that a magnet seems to effect the environment around it. It can attract metal like iron and can create amperage in a copper wire by just moving past it. It is almost like the magnet can reach out touch things through its field. So one can understand that a coil of wire with current running though it can have an effect on a second coil even though the two may not be mechanically linked.
Tesla transformers don't really produce this magnetic field, so what's going on? Then it occurred to me. The primary in a Tesla coil does produce a field but it is not a magnetic field but an electric field. When you turn on a Van De Graff machine you create a high voltage electric field. This field has effects on material around it at a distance, similar to how magnetic fields work. Now, in a Tesla coil, this field is rapidly turned on and off. If magnetic fields can transmitted across space, is it not possible that a electric field be "radiated" outward? It seems that if this is the case that transformers utilizing magnetic fields tend to create voltages with higher currents and transformers based on electric fields tend to create high voltages with low currents. This theory lends itself to a really good explanation for the experimental results when using the hair pin circuit. It also puts a new spin on how wireless power works. Not as a magnetic field travelling through the air but as an electric field, which may have completely different characteristics.
Any thoughts?
I have studied Tesla and built some of his circuits. In particular I have studied and built a "pancake" coil and I have built a "hair pin circuit". If your not too sure what these are, a little search on the internet will yield a ton of information. Send me a message if your still not too clear. What strikes me as strange is what is the mechanism between the primary and secondary? What is the connection from energizing the primary and getting that energy to the secondary to produce obvious high voltage results?? If you look at a pancake coil you will find that the magnetic coupling between the two is incredible weak. On top of that the amperage going through the primary is really small and as a result the magnetic field produced is also really small. Again, how does the energy get from the primary to the secondary? It just just doesn't make sense if you think it in terms of magnetic fields. Conventional transformers, the magnetic field of primary is strongly coupled with secondary so that the fields have the greatest effect from one to the other. But Tesla coils don't seem to work this way. Now, I have read peoples best attempts at explaining how Tesla transformers work, but they never seem to have a strong explanation of the link from primary to secondary. And saying that Tesla transformers work because they are resonant transformers is not a good explanation.
Conventional transformers work by using amperage in primary to create magnetic field to create amperage in secondary. The connecting feature between the two is the magnetic field. And we all have played with magnets as kids, so we can understand that a magnet seems to effect the environment around it. It can attract metal like iron and can create amperage in a copper wire by just moving past it. It is almost like the magnet can reach out touch things through its field. So one can understand that a coil of wire with current running though it can have an effect on a second coil even though the two may not be mechanically linked.
Tesla transformers don't really produce this magnetic field, so what's going on? Then it occurred to me. The primary in a Tesla coil does produce a field but it is not a magnetic field but an electric field. When you turn on a Van De Graff machine you create a high voltage electric field. This field has effects on material around it at a distance, similar to how magnetic fields work. Now, in a Tesla coil, this field is rapidly turned on and off. If magnetic fields can transmitted across space, is it not possible that a electric field be "radiated" outward? It seems that if this is the case that transformers utilizing magnetic fields tend to create voltages with higher currents and transformers based on electric fields tend to create high voltages with low currents. This theory lends itself to a really good explanation for the experimental results when using the hair pin circuit. It also puts a new spin on how wireless power works. Not as a magnetic field travelling through the air but as an electric field, which may have completely different characteristics.
Any thoughts?
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