I completely agree!!!!

Tesla had poor math skills and did understand the inverse square law. This is why high power can’t be transmitted very far.

Simon, I am thoroughly enjoying watching all your comments as you binge watch my videos. Glad you like them and thanks for commenting so much.

It's because of Kathy's enthusiasm. She, obviously loves electricity, and it becomes infectious. If I had Kathy as a teacher, I would have paid attention instead of learning it later in life.

@@Kathy_Loves_Physics A friend Did make a T.Coil(cool). I owned several cars that ran on both "interruptors & excitors". Lastly; I'm not sure if "back then" it may have been the shape of the coil, but in modern times physical shape /size doesn't matter. Time is wonderful (usually).

He even supplies component V in the magnifying transmitter patent as a “pressure relief” if the case should ever happen by accident. “The accident is apt to occur when, the transmitting circuit being strongly excited, the impressed oscillations upon it are caused, in any manner more or less sudden, to be more rapid than the free oscillations. It is therefore advisable to begin the adjustments with feeble and somewhat slower impressed oscillations, strengthening and quickening them gradually, until the apparatus has been brought under perfect control. To increase the safety, I provide on a convenient place, preferably on terminal D, one or more elements or plates either of somewhat smaller radius of curvature or protruding more or less beyond the others (in which case they may be of larger radius of curvature) so that, should the pressure rise to a value, beyond which it is not desired to go, the powerful discharge may dart out there and lose itself harmlessly in the air. Such a plate, performing a function similar to that of a safety valve on a high pressure reservoir, is indicated at V.”

Tesla was not dumping the signal into the air and infact says this happens at great loss. The “antenna” or secondary circuit is not only connected to the terminal in the air. It’s it’s also grounded at its base to be able to use the earth. The point of the transmitter is to dump the power into the ground for transmission not the air into hertzian waves. Never mind the fact that just like the SOFAR channel deep in the ocean that traps low frequent acoustic signals into planar dispersion patterns with power decreasing at a rate of only 1/R, instead of spherical dispersion with a power decrease of 1/R^2, there are “whispering gallery” resonances of the atmosphere, starting just off the surface off the earth going all the way up to the ionosphere. These resonant wave guides around the earth allow for power transmission with a far lower rate of power loss over distance. This is proven stuff and the military has been using these channels for submarine warfare techniques for over 100 years.

From the magnifying transmitter patent In endeavoring to adapt currents or discharges of very high tension to various valuable uses, as the distribution of energy through wires from central plants to distant places of consumption, or the transmission of powerful disturbances to great distances, through the natural or non-artificial media. I have encountered difficulties in confining considerable amounts of electricity to the conductors and preventing its leakage over their supports, or its escape into the ambient air, which always takes place when the electric surface density reaches a certain value. The intensity of the effect of a transmitting circuit with a free or elevated terminal is proportionate to the quantity of electricity displaced, which is determined by the product of the capacity of the circuit, the pressure, and the frequency of the currents employed. To produce an electrical movement of the required magnitude it is desirable to charge the terminal as highly as possible, for while a great quantity of electricity may also be displaced by a large capacity charged to low pressure, there are disadvantages met with in many cases when the former is made too large. The chief of these are due to the fact that an increase of the capacity entails a lowering of the frequency of the impulses or discharges and a diminution of the energy of vibration. This will be understood when it is borne in mind, that a circuit with a large capacity behaves as a slackspring, whereas one with a small capacity acts like a stiff spring, vibrating more vigorously. Therefore, in order to attain the highest possible frequency, which for certain purposes is advantageous and, apart from that, to develop the greatest energy in such a transmitting circuit, I employ a terminal of relatively small capacity, which I charge to as high a pressure as practicable. To accomplish this result I have found it imperative to so construct the elevated conductor, that its outer surface, on which the electrical charge chiefly accumulates, has itself a large radius of curvature, or is composed of separate elements which, irrespective of their own radius of curvature, are arranged in close proximity to each other and so, that the outside ideal surface enveloping them is of a large radius. Evidently, the smaller the radius of curvature the greater, for a given electric displacement, will be the surface-density and, consequently, the lower the limiting pressure to which the terminal may be charged without electricity escaping into the air. Such a terminal I secure to an insulating support entering more or less into its interior, and I likewise connect the circuit to it inside or, generally, at points where the electric density is small. This plan of constructing and supporting a highly charged conductor I have found to be of great practical importance, and it may be usefully applied in many ways.

The top dome/charge collector is very much analogous to the air piston in the oscillator patent. It’s a capacitor to bounce off of. Any loss of electricity to the air would be a complete waste in the system, dampen the oscillation not to mention would ruin the desirable polished surfaces of the charged top that are precisely for the explicit purpose of eliminating discharges into the air. Again refer to the lightning protector patent. It’s one of my favorites because everyone completely underestimated it if not get it completely wrong. Most think it’s just another novel lightning rod to “collect” lightning strikes. Buts it’s not it does the exact opposite. It’s a curved umbrella dome to eliminate lightning strikes. As well I love that patent because he “hides” SOO much of his geo electrical physics in that patent. It’s ALWAYS overlooked but plays such a critical role to so many of his larger global system ideas.

And please don’t tell me that it doesn’t work because everyone said that about his turbine and I’m making them work just fine. Just clocked 2.75kW and 6.22ft-lbs of torque at 4150rpm with just compressed air alone. People just don’t understand the fine details that contribute to the efficacy of the system. As I said above, everyone likes to scream bloody murder about “BUT POWER DROPS WITH A RATE OF 1/R^2!!! IT CAN’T WORK OVER ANY DISTANCE!!”… which is true if you make a tiny one, but to that I still say, so does acoustic sound waves. Yet somehow whales can communicate around the entire world with each other even though they cannot possibly produce a sound loud enough in free apace underwater to travel around the world. I would also suggest looking up project Mogal as it shines light on much of why the government kept these whispering gallery wave guide channels in and around the earth under wraps at the time… plot twist… it was for the sake of national security….. go figure. And before any questions it, yes, I do have a degree in physics already.

That is amazing and very brave of you

I just noticed this comment Da Hawk. I didn't know why it was called a tank circuit, that is very cool. I mention how tank circuits work in a bunch of my radio videos but never why they were called that (as you just taught me). Thanks, K

For everything you've taught me, I figured I owed you one! Even the math behind harmonic oscillation is fascinating. Sine waves are just circles, from a different perspective. This .gif explains it in 2 minutes: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sine_and_Cosine_fundamental_relationship_to_Circle_(and_Helix).gif I remember the day when I was sitting in class and this realization dawned on me. That was a great day.

Da Hawk I had heard that one before and agree it is super cool. As a physics gal who has never taken a EE course I just learned how tank circuits work like last year so I am waay behind on engineering. But I’m working on it.

As a tangent... It was about that same time for me in school when I had a class where my teacher explained to us how army tanks got to be called 'tanks'. It was a cover story for these newfangled things that they were a way to get water to the infantry troops. "Tanks of water". And this name from the cover story stuck. There's a history to absolutely everything around us. It's just that the vast majority of the stories are forgotten.

Da Hawk ok I actually gasped. I love that stuff.

Correct!

Good to her you call it an Oudin coil. Most people have never heard of this and mistakenly call them all Tesla coils.

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I knew that they are used in spark plugs but I didn't know that they are called "trembler coils" what a cool name!

The vacuum tube radios in automobiles used vibrator coils to produce high plate voltage for vacuum tubes from the 12 volt DC battery. You could always hear a hum of the vibrator when you turned on the radio.

Oliver Gouveia so glad

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I am so glad. Really, it makes me smile to read positive comments and helps me through the mean and nasty ones.

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Let me know what you are doing. I have built a number of Tesla coils in the past. I might be able to walk you through the construction process.

@@zachreyhelmberger894 Most of the videos in KZfaq seems to be baseless, it rarely works. I am more intersted to get it simple by having limited electronics here...say merely by controlling turns in Primary and secondary. And may be basic assembly for on off switch in a very primitive way...as they used to do 150 years back...MORE LIKE A BARE SCIENCE...!!

May be you shall add a line or post the details in video soon. I got make one DIY Tesla soon. Cheers Mate. Also a line about me for your Info, myself an architect, musician, DIY enthusiast and Exercise Guru. Cheers...!!

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It is kind of both, I think. The positive plate will have a deficiency of electrons and the negative plate will have an excess of electrons. These net charges create an electric field that is the most intense between the plates. The dielectric in between the plates can reduce the intensity of the electric field in between the plates by electrostatic induction in the atoms or molecules of the dielectric. The greater the dielectric constant, the lower the intensity of the electric field (or voltage per unit distance) for a given differential of charge between the positive and negative plate. This allows more charge to be transferred from one plate to the other before the voltage gets too high and dielectric breaks down and a spark ensues or the charge finds another route from one plate to the other typically in a rather dramatic fashion. Similarly, a conductor with and electric current passing through it creates a magnetic field, which is also a form of energy storage. When the current stops, the magnetic field "collapses" into the conductor and causes the current to flow in the opposite direction.

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