RE: No Free Energy was Re: SSTC design procedure

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Original poster: "Stephen Mathieson" <s.mathieson-at-charter-dot-net> 

Well Lewis, don't hope to ever get "free" energy from anything, especially a
Tesla coil. My large coil has so far cost me a considerable sum of money and
I don't expect arcs for months to come.

You mention living far enough off of the grid for solar power and generators
then you may find it practical to use solar power to charge 12V batteries
and a 12V powered transistor Tesla coil to drive fluorescent lights at
night. I remember seeing something on the Tesla web ring about this so keep
looking and you will find it. Using RF to light fluorescent bulbs can yield
much greater efficiency than running them off the power line or with an
inverter. I would imagine this is true because there is no need to power the
filaments.

Stephen A. Mathieson

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Subject: No Free Energy was Re: SSTC design procedure

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In a message dated 5/20/04 11:38:34 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
tesla-at-pupman-dot-com writes:
Original poster: Lewis Jenkins <mthope-at-fastermac-dot-net>

Hello Group:

I'm new to the Tesla world, and I have a question:  I've heard the subject
of the famous Tesla Coil so much in the past few years, yet I have no
understanding of it's practicality.  The information I have seems to
indicate that it's simply a device that gives a blue light and can knock you
off your feet and into the next world if something goes wrong.

My question, is the power of the coil controllable as a power source?

Is it just a hobby thing to pour money into so that you have  a "Tesla Coil"
Or is there a practical use of this coil.  We live two miles from the Grid
in far north Idaho and a practical coil or fuelless power source would be a
boon and saviour for those of us dependent on solar systems that only work
during summer months and gas hog generators.

Any information on this would be appreciated.  We have plans for fuelless
engine, but so far have not the whatever to build it, but it is a ongoing
hope.  Any information on this coil and its practicality will be
appreciated.


Thanks all,

Lewis Jenkins

Hi Lewis,

      A Tesla Coil CONVERTS low frequency low voltage energy to high
frequency high voltage energy at maybe 50% efficiency. It does not PRODUCE
energy -- it is not a source.
        In the early days, Tesla coils were used as power supplies for x-ray
machines and electrical quack medicine cure-all machines, some of which
persist today on eBay under names like "Biovibes" and "Lakhovsky Multi-Wave
Oscillators" and "purple energy" devices. In my experience, the closer you
get to the West Coast, the more bizarre pseudoscientific claims you will
hear. In the opinion of most serious researchers it's 100% New Age
Hokum.     Today's legitimate uses fall into two general categories. First
as a laboratory tool to study behavior of HF/HV phenomena, and the other as
special-effects generators for rock groups, demolition derbies, or as
carnival-type attractions (Halloween Haunted House, etc.). They are
occasionally used to attract the "Rubes" for everything from mall openings
to fundamentalist revival meetings, to being religious totems for some
California "Tesla Cults". For a lot of Coilers it's just, "My spark is
longer than yours." For free or cheap energy, you will have to look
elsewhere.
      If some of Tesla's more unusual ideas for energy transmission could
ever be built, (not yet technically feasible) and if they could be made to
work, (scientifically doubtful) they would permanently knock out all
communications globally which could cause more problems than your current
cost of energy.

Matt D.