Tesla's Magnifying Transmitter "Replications"

[Slider2732]

The converter coil is a work of art, looks great
There's so much Patent work in your videos, truly inspiring for own builds...and a can of Castlemaine I see for plasma discharge. That's if it is XXXX.
Enjoyed the video.

[Farmhand]

Thanks Slider, It takes a lot of work to wind one of those, I'm doing another one
very slowly this time. The primary circuit for the Tesla coil could be much better.
I think I've thought of a solution to blow the gap I have with air, I just need to
drill a hole in the orange tube directly below each gap, then block one end of the tube off or
(cap it) so I can force air in one end via a tube and out the two holes to blow
out the sparks, I maybe can even cause a rhythm with it, turn it into an instrument.
If I use a fan to force air through a tube with holes in it like a flute then to
the spark gap when I cover the holes in the tube the pressure will increase
and the flow of air blowing the gap could be varied like that. Maybe I can play it like a bagpipe.

I like the pipes in this clip, they're bangin. I'd like to play that tune with a coil.
AC/DC - It's a Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock N' Roll) - YouTube

I can run the setup from 120 volts if I adjust some things with
what looks like almost the same length discharges at the terminal but they are
less often (slower).

Yeah it's a fourex can, I don't drink alcohol though so the beer went down the
sink. I don't condone drinking while driving HV coils.

Cheers

[dR-Green]

Do you have a link to the video?.

Eric Dollard Peter Lindemann Tesla's Longitudinal Electricity - YouTube

[dR-Green]

Nice work Farmhand I'd like to hear a gappipe

[dR-Green]

This is my latest creation, a small "test coil" using Eric Dollard's calculations for 3.67MHz, approx 1/72.4 scale. 2 turns 20.7cm primary, 20 turns same diameter secondary, 126 turns 8.28cm diameter extra coil. Built out of 6mm and 12mm MDF with 9mm hardwood dowels, no insulating work done on the frame at all. Had to use 26 SWG wire which presented problems in the secondary in the way of easily bending and the coil becoming a slight octagon resulting in about 15cm of wire left over. The extra coil wire length worked out perfectly, but the whole thing being so small it's impossible to space the wire evenly. Space has been left above and below the secondary allowing for primary coupling adjustment and condenser rings adjustment at the top. The extra coil is supported by a 20mm PVC conduit with a tight fit for adjustment, with provisions having been made for dowel legs/supports (the four small holes).

Pics at various stages of construction:













In use:



Top of extra coil:







Arcing into a piece of pine:





To be continued due to max image limitation...

[dR-Green]

"One wire" 15W filament bulb lighting with me as the capacitance on the other side:





Video of testing 15W, 28W and 40W bulbs between coil output and earth, and effect of condenser across the secondary

Tesla Magnifying Transmitter 1/72.4 Scale Bulb Test-01 - YouTube

Playing with sparks The arcs sometimes remind me of a crooked old man's fingers or something

Tesla Magnifying Transmitter 1/72.4 Scale - Extra Coil Fun-01 - YouTube

And video of various "wireless" lighting of filament bulbs including me in series before the bulb

Light, The Tesla Way-01 - TMT 72.4 Scale - YouTube

I think in the first two videos the extra coil isn't physically connected, but testing this configuration from Colorado Springs Notes in the last one

[Farmhand]

Bag pipe didn't work , blowing air into the pipe so two air streams blows the
gaps seems to blow them out too easily then the safety gaps fire. I haven't tried
a vacuum yet.

dR that is a really nice little build, your a bit of a craftsman. your
woodworking is much better than mine. Well done.

Cheers

[dR-Green]

Bag pipe didn't work , blowing air into the pipe so two air streams blows the
gaps seems to blow them out too easily then the safety gaps fire. I haven't tried
a vacuum yet.

dR that is a really nice little build, your a bit of a craftsman. your
woodworking is much better than mine. Well done.

Cheers

Thanks Farmhand Craftsmanship vs obsession with details is debatable I suppose MDF is good to work with in this case, it's soft enough to make sanding mistakes not too much work etc and it looks pretty tidy in the end, no grain to complicate things and stuff like that. All the holes were lined up using pilot holes and 6mm nuts and bolts to make sure everything ended up in the right place, the rest wasn't really important. I took a few shortcuts, no grooves for the wire, and the spaces for the primary and secondary sized using identical length bits of dowels while glueing it all in place. The middle MDF ring serving the purpose of keeping it more stable and measuring the secondary height at the same time. Having a whole turn of wire pretty much in contact with the MDF at the bottom and the top of the winding might not be a good thing, but all these sort of "questionable" things were contemplated in advance and considered not to be worth the extra amount of work for such a small (test) coil.

Anyway I'm no wind instrument expert but I think to make a sound there needs to be some compression at the input to focus/channel the air, and probably some vibrating thing which the air passes through at the mouthpiece (reed), with a resonating chamber. Maybe you could use a piece of paper or something like that to make the vibration. Sounds like it will be a bit of work to get it working though

There's a few interesting differences between the different sized and geometry coils. The TMT is undoubtedly more efficient than how I've built the spirals in terms of output. But the TMT has quite a wide tuning range as a receiver, the 30cm spiral has much sharper tuning. With the TMT as transmitter connecting to the (earthed) radiator and 30cm spiral receiver I can quite easily light a 12v 1.1w LED array, but it won't work when I make the spiral the transmitter and the TMT the receiver in the same configuration. For that to work I need to use the 50cm spiral as transmitter. And then there seems to be obvious differences between the frequencies - I can touch the 50cm spiral output with one hand and light fluoros in the other hand, the bigger/higher wattage the better it seems. But I can't do this with the higher frequency TMT or the 30cm spiral, only the 50cm spiral will do this. However the TMT will light an incandescent bulb brighter than the 50cm spiral will so clearly this is a frequency related phenomenon in my opinion. I believe the TMT is slightly higher voltage at the grounded end than the spiral is so I don't think it's the (lower) voltage of the spiral that's making the fluoro light when I'm in series with the coil output.

[Farmhand]

Thanks Farmhand Craftsmanship vs obsession with details is debatable I suppose MDF is good to work with in this case, it's soft enough to make sanding mistakes not too much work etc and it looks pretty tidy in the end, no grain to complicate things and stuff like that. All the holes were lined up using pilot holes and 6mm nuts and bolts to make sure everything ended up in the right place, the rest wasn't really important. I took a few shortcuts, no grooves for the wire, and the spaces for the primary and secondary sized using identical length bits of dowels while glueing it all in place. The middle MDF ring serving the purpose of keeping it more stable and measuring the secondary height at the same time. Having a whole turn of wire pretty much in contact with the MDF at the bottom and the top of the winding might not be a good thing, but all these sort of "questionable" things were contemplated in advance and considered not to be worth the extra amount of work for such a small (test) coil.

Obsession with detail is a big part of craftsmanship I think. The real art is in
the timing, as in choosing what to obsess over more and what less. It does
depend a lot on personal goals as you say. I'm finding that soon after building
my big coil I now want to rebuild it in a more practical way all pre-planned for
the improvements and tuning adjustments. But I don't like to disassemble
much, short on materials too. Good idea to build some small things too.

Anyway I'm no wind instrument expert but I think to make a sound there needs to be some compression at the input to focus/channel the air, and probably some vibrating thing which the air passes through at the mouthpiece (reed), with a resonating chamber. Maybe you could use a piece of paper or something like that to make the vibration. Sounds like it will be a bit of work to get it working though

Yeah I know what you mean, I did try to play it like a didgeridoo or a
trumpet, but the idea was the main sound would made by the arc at the top.
Mainly I wanted to just blow the gaps.

There's a few interesting differences between the different sized and geometry coils. The TMT is undoubtedly more efficient than how I've built the spirals in terms of output. But the TMT has quite a wide tuning range as a receiver, the 30cm spiral has much sharper tuning. With the TMT as transmitter connecting to the (earthed) radiator and 30cm spiral receiver I can quite easily light a 12v 1.1w LED array, but it won't work when I make the spiral the transmitter and the TMT the receiver in the same configuration. For that to work I need to use the 50cm spiral as transmitter. And then there seems to be obvious differences between the frequencies - I can touch the 50cm spiral output with one hand and light fluoros in the other hand, the bigger/higher wattage the better it seems. But I can't do this with the higher frequency TMT or the 30cm spiral, only the 50cm spiral will do this. However the TMT will light an incandescent bulb brighter than the 50cm spiral will so clearly this is a frequency related phenomenon in my opinion. I believe the TMT is slightly higher voltage at the grounded end than the spiral is so I don't think it's the (lower) voltage of the spiral that's making the fluoro light when I'm in series with the coil output.

Yes interesting, that does make sense Maybe it's time for me to build a spiral,
I want to build one that I can stand on it's side or put on the wall and that is
the one I should make to suit my local radio station frequency for listening to
the radio

Cheers

[Bob Smith]

As I said:








Tesla did not pick Colorado Springs at Random, using a dart on a USA map , I would not think that a man with the desire to bring man closer to nature, would do so

You want nature to let you play with her, well first you got to know her (sounds familiar )

Hi MM
I thought the work of Boris Bolotov, related to Zirconium and its role in overunity power generation might have some relevance here. There is reportedly transmutation and possibly other effects, which might tie in further with this thread's topic. See:
http://www.peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Bolotov's_Zirconium_Cold_Fusion

Respectfully,
Bob

[mr.clean]

Yes I have studied some of Erics work, but I have never seen him demonstrate a Magnifying Transmitter.

I was wondering if somebody could point me to some information on it ?

A video or paper or photo's anything ? Peter or anybody.

I'm very interested. I'll check lamare's page again. I'm not all that internet savvy so I may have missed it.

Thanks

Hi buddy, surely you have seen this by now... but i only saw it recently...

Eric Dollard's Magnifying Transmitter !!!! and circuit drawings (posted feb 2013)

Transverse & Longitudinal Electric Waves - Eric Dollard & Tom Brown - YouTube

i cant believe how much good info you all have posted here, my life goal right now is Realizing the TMT / LMD as seen in this vid.

[mr.clean]

...in the meantime, anyone find any new results lately?

im going thru older posts now, but does anyone recall the wavelength Tesla said the Extra coil was?
3/4?

so 1/4 primary (establishing the full wave for secondary), then 3/4 of that for Extra coil?

[MonsieurM]

Hi MM
I thought the work of Boris Bolotov, related to Zirconium and its role in overunity power generation might have some relevance here. There is reportedly transmutation and possibly other effects, which might tie in further with this thread's topic. See:
http://www.peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Bolotov's_Zirconium_Cold_Fusion

Respectfully,
Bob

Bob Smith ..... thank you for the info ... and sorry for late reply

[dR-Green]

...in the meantime, anyone find any new results lately?

im going thru older posts now, but does anyone recall the wavelength Tesla said the Extra coil was?
3/4?

so 1/4 primary (establishing the full wave for secondary), then 3/4 of that for Extra coil?

Technically, the extra coil "wave length" if you are referring to a wire length is mostly irrelevant. To begin with the geometry affects the propagation velocity, so the wavelength-frequency-speed of light relations are useless as they are and need to be compensated based on the velocity factor if you want to end up at the right frequency with a certain wire length.

From Colorado Springs Notes, coils alone:
Extra coil wire length = 790 metres
Luminal frequency (light speed limit) = 94.8 kc
Measured frequency = 116.3 kc

Secondary coil wire length = 801 metres
Luminal frequency = 93.5 kc
Measured frequency = 42.8 kc

Coils together: End frequency = supposedly approx 45 kc

Both coils have approx 1/4 wave conductor length but the frequencies are completely different, they are in no way both resonating at the same frequency despite the wire length. According to Eric in Colorado Springs the extra coil is acting as a simple series inductor and as such the wire length is mostly irrelevant, the important thing to its operation is a particular inductance in series with the secondary, with a particular end capacitance. If you want to scale it down that is, it will be no good simply scaling down wire lengths because you won't have a Colorado Springs scale model, the extra coil won't have the right inductance.

http://www.energeticforum.com/renewa...ompendium.html

[mr.clean]

Technically, the extra coil "wave length" if you are referring to a wire length is mostly irrelevant. To begin with the geometry affects the propagation velocity, so the wavelength-frequency-speed of light relations are useless as they are and need to be compensated based on the velocity factor if you want to end up at the right frequency with a certain wire length.

From Colorado Springs Notes, coils alone:
Extra coil wire length = 790 metres
Luminal frequency (light speed limit) = 94.8 kc
Measured frequency = 116.3 kc

Secondary coil wire length = 801 metres
Luminal frequency = 93.5 kc
Measured frequency = 42.8 kc

Coils together: End frequency = supposedly approx 45 kc

Both coils have approx 1/4 wave conductor length but the frequencies are completely different, they are in no way both resonating at the same frequency despite the wire length. According to Eric in Colorado Springs the extra coil is acting as a simple series inductor and as such the wire length is mostly irrelevant, the important thing to its operation is a particular inductance in series with the secondary, with a particular end capacitance. If you want to scale it down that is, it will be no good simply scaling down wire lengths because you won't have a Colorado Springs scale model, the extra coil won't have the right inductance.

http://www.energeticforum.com/renewa...ompendium.html

thanks man I appreciate it! but I really think there are precise guidelines for the Extra coil, and from the pic in Tesla's TMT patent, the Extra coil is energized thru resonant induction of the secondary, (re-grounded at high starting potential) and also obviously direct connected as a sort of basic series inductor choke.

I just feel the extra coil is perhaps a bit tricky, can we tap different positions to find peak resonance without dampening ? gonna be a long but worthwhile task

I love your work to date on this topic, and Farmhand really has some good stuff too