Re: Thought experiment (3 a.m. style)

To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: Re: Thought experiment (3 a.m. style)
From: Richard Hull <hullr-at-whitlock-dot-com>
Date: Thu, 02 Jan 1997 12:18:32 -0800
Subscriber: hullr-at-whitlock-dot-com Thu Jan 2 22:41:50 1997

Tesla List wrote:
> 
> Subscriber: ASyme-at-aol-dot-com Sat Dec 21 15:15:03 1996
> Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 16:15:19 -0500
> From: ASyme-at-aol-dot-com
> To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> Subject: Thought experiment (3 a.m. style)
> 
> With all the posts on ES and EM energy, this idea came to me as a thought
> experiment,(at 3a.m.)
> If you were to take a Van De Graff generator and attach to it a coil the
> equivalent of a Tesla secondary and had the other end of the coil a spark gap
> to ground, I would ask the following questions
> 1) would the set up work at all?
> 2) would you get the same ES and EM effects as you would off a standard Tesla
> coil? The idea being that instead of generating ES effects from an EM power
> source, you would be generating EM effects from a ES power source
>  ....... AL Syme .......

Al,

Trichel did basically this in the 1930s.  I have done the experiment a 
couple of years ago and more recently in August 1996.  You can take a 
Tesla secondary and to the base hook a spark gap to the spark gap hook 
the hot lead of a DC HV supply.  Ground the other lead of the supply.  
The result is a noiseless system where the tiny spark gap subtely breaks 
down and the coil rings up against the isotropic capacitve load of the 
terminal capacity. (note* put a needle point off into space on the 
toroid) 

 The receiver can be a large 12" ball hooked to a simple O'scope and you 
will see a DC only signal with a ring wave on the negative going ramp.
I plan on returning to this work in the near future.

Richard Hull, TCBOR