Originally posted by 7imix
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From my POV, Smith is a snake oil salesman who was obsessed with the output voltage levels exactly as I would be if I had NIMI batteries hidden and I wanted to insure they did not go over the cliff during the demonstration.
Being an old antenna designer myself:
people can see that tesla stated to cut wire to approximately 1/4 wavelength of the desired operating frequency for the secondary.
Now with a primary of only 2 turns that will have a very small effect on the wavelength by comparison to the length of the secondary.
If we go according to smith and make the primary 1/4wl and the secondary 1/4wl that is a total of 1/2wl and no longer the tesla design since tesla stated the electrical length should be set to 1/4wl.
I have not seen in that patent matching mass but that we know or at least I think we agree to presume that is one of the elements in creating the ideal condition for dielectric induction. Otherwise isnt it like having a capacitor with one large plate and one small one?
I think its important to note that any antenna which is what his towers are, (in several respects) are an impedance matching device between source and load. When you build an a transmitter you essentially match the low impedance of the amp to the high impedance of the media being transmitted through.
For sound the impedance transformer is a horn for instance with a vibrating diaphram to excite the air.
The air is high impedance and therefore require high voltages to obtain conduction and the earth on the other hand would rather conduct the currents and requires very little voltage by comparison, and teslas device (generically speaking), like most other antennas is an impedance matching device on the order of an antenna or transmission line as Dollard has shown. Dollard and Lindemann chose a gas bulb as in that same patent in the above post Tesla said gas is a better conductor and matching devise for low power operation than a sphere.
So then tesla goes on to talk about how many standing waves the coil would have over its length which tells me that we can measure the standing wave ratio with a vswr meter for fine tuning the coil for a SWR of 1 for low z and/or infinity for hi z side.
The higher the z of the media at the tip the higher the v must be to conduct and the lower the current transmitted through the air thus simultaneously the higher will be the current through the ground to maintain steady state conduction, thereby impedance matching between the stratosphere and the earth and tapping the juice as it makes its journey between to the 2.
With a vswr reading of 1:1 that means that the capacitance and inductance are in an axact match with the applied frequency hence you only have the resistive component of the mutual reactance giving you resist.
So by my way of thinking the real trick here is to adjust that antenna so that the dielectric and diamagnetic are both at maximum at the top of the coil when the complex impedance is resistive and minumum at the bottom of the coil which to me implies creating windings that function on the order and same electrical form as Dollard's network has shown (only as a 1/4wl version) and the only way I am aware that can be accomplished is by some form of distributed capacitance in the design if what tesla said in the court case is correct where he claims his towers do not "radiate".
Tesla appears to have intended to have a steady state equivalent of a lightning bolt going from the ionosphere to the ground with us tapping the juice in between.
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