I assembled a small run setup with an improvised magnetic quenched spark-gap...The interesting part is that in an "arc short" ...
The spark will jump of a small distance, more or less 1mm and will be thin!

Remember it's to be used as a SPARK-gap not an ARC-gap; fast on-off.

- Schpankme
Drive for show and Putt for dough.

Reply for otto:

"It Is an Electric Gun
     The beam of force itself, as Dr. Tesla described it, is a concentrated current—it need be no thicker than a pencil—of microscopic particles moving at several hundred times the speed of artillery projectiles.  The machine into which Dr. Tesla combines his four devices is, in reality, a sort of electrical gun.
     He illustrated the sort of thing that the particles will be by recalling an incident that occurred often enough when he was experimenting with a cathode tube.  Then, sometimes, a particle larger than an electron, but still very tiny, would break off from the cathode, pass out of the tube and hit him.  He said he could feel a sharp, stinging pain where it entered his body, and again at the place where it passed out.  The particles in the beam of force, ammunition which the operators of the generating machine will have to supply, will travel far faster than such particles as broke off from the cathode, and they will travel in concentrations, he said.
     As Dr. Tesla explained it, the tremendous speed of the particles will give them their destruction-dealing qualities.  All but the thickest armored surfaces confronting them would be melted through in an instant by the heat generated in the concussion."

Interesting that Tesla called them "neutrons"

"I thank Dr. Macek and you for the happy news.  It is important that you know the following: [In] eight years I developed a new title using 50 of my patents of which one third are not applied.  In the system there are no electrons.  Energy goes into the same direction without any distribution [dissipation] and the same on all sides of distance.  It contains neutrons.  [In] the air [its size] is equal to a diameter of hydrogen.  It can destroy the largest ships afloat.  There is unlimited distance of travel.  The same is for airplanes."



"The production of the death-beam, Dr. Tesla said, involves four new inventions, which have not been announced by him.  The scientific details of these inventions are to be given out by him before the proper scientific bodies in the near future.  In the meantime he gave out a general statement outlining their nature.
     The first invention, he said, comprises a method and apparatus for producing rays and other manifestations of energy in free air, eliminating the high vacuum necessary at present for the production of such rays and beams.
     The second is a method and process for producing "very great electrical force."
     The third is a method for amplifying this process in the second invention.
     The fourth, he said, is "a new method for producing a tremendous electrical
repelling force.""


http://www.tfcbooks.com/teslafaq/q&a_011.htm

@forest

thanks. So, Tesla was talking about neutrons, our members about photons, others about electrons....as Im not so good educated and never saw this little beasts Im calling them particles so the people with a better knowledge can decide whats the right term.

Im only a little coil builder.

Otto

Ramset

Thats my way to pull electrons from the earth. On a bike, I dont have a ground post.  =]

Mags

hey Otto

How about Ions?  =]   I havnt heard of that here yet.   


Mags

Cuttingedge

Emm  Ions?   =]

Teets link   
http://www.nuenergy.org/theory/ioncell.htm

Mags

I have been given much thought to the biffilar coil. I made one from a pvc former, placed upon a shelf and i keep looking it from times to time...

What a biffilar can do?
Tito, you have been advocated a lot about biffilars. You have also gave a youtube video. Can you propose a simple experiment with biffilars to get an understanding of it?