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Making The Magnifying Transmitter (Modified Tesla Coil)

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Uploaded by on Jul 31, 2008

From mastermind, Cameron DeLemos, and assistant, Nathan McGuire, comes a Tesla Coil that was transformed into a Wireless transmitter/receiver. Not much is shown of the transmitter and receiver components because of its low-lighting tests, but we can tell you we could get a visible arc off of the receiver coil from 17 feet away.

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  • To follow up with a clarification to my last post, the components of a magnifier should proceed as such; Primary of large solid wire, secondary of 1/2 diameter of primary, a third coil of large radius "uninsulated solid wire" acting as a conductor, leading to a smooth conductor, leading onto a storage capacitor (toroid) of large radii arranged in geometric fashion. The magnifier is a "ground" activating unit, not an air discharging unit; as with a Tesla coil.

  • The answer is simple. our coil was NOT, I repeat, NOT, a replication of Nikola Telsa's magnifying transmitter. It is simply an experiment that we did, taking an old tesla coil we had made, and adding another coil to emulate his design, and observe the effects. We seek not to replicate mindlessly, but to use his ideas to make discoveries of our own. This is how technology advances.

  • a very well made video but the magnifier doesnt work properly im afraid :( keep trying...but my guess is that the tertiary is too close to the magnetic field of the primary/secondary it will not resonat in the correct fashion

  • The reason our coil does not work the same as Tesla's magnifying transmitter did lies not in the fact that the tertiary is too close. It has to do with the output resonance frequency of our coil. However, perhaps I misunderstand what you see as "wrong" with the design seen in the video.

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  • you would get better arcs if you did more secondary winding all at once not in segmints and your arc gap is well Fed up and should only arc when the caps are charged.. i notived you had diods on there and you cant do that with diodes because one ends up doing all the work and the other just sit there and you want your secondarys really close but not arcing to your primays for best feald reseption

  • The time machine music :)

  • Have you experiment with the large flat coil yet? Like the one that was being Tesla on his famous picture reading a book.

  • @blackarcproductions Your video is awsome and the work you do is as well. Keep experimenting, make your own vision on this world. Life need to evolve. Change of mind will bring evolution. You seems patient, perhaps you are doing what you should do because it need a lot of it :)

  • i'm confused as to why the magnifying transmitter is not used to transfer power today if it worked. Is it dangerous or inefficient?

  • bug tesla coil made for make small sparks

  • Impressive, you deserve more than a medal for winding that secondary by hand!

  • very nice job, but the music reminds me to harry potter movies

  • @blackarcproductions @tektonica This experiment works well if you make the secondary coil 1/3 the diameter of the primary and make the primary a basket (conical) coil. Resonance occurs when 1/2pi* sqrt*LC = 2*pi*f*L and use an oscilloscope to find the the resonant frequency of your secondary with your given capacitance. If you tune the primary to match by moving the feeder wire around you'll get some nice large sparks, especially with a 15KV neon transformer and a good spark gap.

  • @tektonica This experiment works a lot better if you make the secondary coil 1/3 the diameter of the primary and make the primary a basket (conical) coil, rather than a flat pancake coil, since resonance occurs when 1/2pi* sqrt*LC = 2*pi*f*L and use an oscilloscope to find the the resonant frequency of your secondary with your given capacitance. If you tune the primary to match by moving the feeder wire around you'll get some nice large sparks, especially with a 15KV neon transformer.

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