Jeanna:

Remember on my first Jeanna Light replication (I am almost done with my second) where I could touch the pick-up lead end and not get zapped or burned, even though my cfl was lit brightly?  Then, I altered the collector turns and the base turns and.....ZAP!!!  It really hurt.  I think I figured it out but then XEE (I think that is who it was) agreed that I must have lowered my freq. to a point where it could penetrate my skin.  What a rude awakening that was.  Good lesson for me though.  I am not touching this new circuit.

Bill

@Jadaro


     I will try to find the patent and diagram.  It works on the principals of an ac induction motor with the exception that the pulsed ac windings are solenoidal and wrapped around a core.  The rotating magnetic field flux change is observed by a conductor instead of a squirrel cage rotor and dc is the output.  Not really a diode more like an ac motor driving a dc generator  without any moving parts.  This could convert highvoltage high frequency ac to some really clean dc. 

 @Jeanna

   Tesla always tuned his circuits. 

Here is the transcription of the lecture Tesla gave regarding the hairpin circuit. (I called it the 3lampsexperiment.)

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Referring to Fig. 1830, B and BJ are very stout copper bars
connected at their lower ends to plates c and c 1 respectively, of a
condenser, the opposite plates of the latter being connected to the
terminals of the secondary s of a high-tension transformer, the
primary p of which is supplied with alternating currents from an
ordinary low-frequency dynamo & or distribution circuit. The
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condenser discharges through an adjustable gap d d as usual. By
establishing a rapid vibration it was found quite easy to perform
the following curious experiment. The bars B and B1  were joined
at the top by a low-voltage lamp L3 ; a little lower was placed by
means of clamps c c, a 50-volt lamp L2 ; and still lower another 100-
volt lamp L1 ; and finally, at a certain distance below the latter
lamp, an exhausted tube T. By carefully determining the po-
sitions of these devices it was found practicable to maintain them
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all at their proper illuminating power. Yet they were all con-
nected in multiple arc to the two stout copper bars and required
widely different pressures. This experiment requires of course
some time for adjustment but is quite easily performed.
In Figs. 183b and 183c, two other experiments are illustrated
which, unlike the previous experiment, do not require very care-
ful adjustments. In Fig. 183b, two lamps, L1 and L2, the former a

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100-volt and the latter a 50-volt are
placed in certain positions as
indicated, the 100-volt lamp being below the 50-volt lamp. When
the arc is playing at d  d and the sudden discharges are passed
through the bars B B,, the 50-volt lamp will, as a rule, burn brightly,
or at least this result is easily secured, while the 100-volt lamp
will burn very low or remain quite dark. Fig. 183b. Now the
bars B B! may be joined at the top by a thick cross bar B2 and it
is quite easy to maintain the 100-volt lamp at full candle-power
while the 50-volt lamp remains dark, Fig. 183c. These results,
as I have pointed out previously, should not be considered to be
due exactly to frequency but rather to the time rate of change
which may be great, even with low frequencies. A great many
other results of the same kind, equally interesting, especially to
those who are only used to manipulate steady currents, may be
obtained and they afford precious clues in investigating the na-
ture of electric currents.
   In the preceding experiments I have already had occasion to
show some light phenomena and it would now be proper to study
these in particular ; but to make this investigation more com-
plete I think it necessary to make first a few remarks on the
subject of electrical resonance which has to be always observed
in carrying out these experiments.
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I will next find the talk about resonance so it is properly worded.

@Sparks,
I have thought about what you were saying about the plasma and spark and those things, and I want to clarify what I think about it.
(btw what I think changes and grows all the time so I probably have less understanding than you have now...and certainly than I will have later.)

What I think now, is that the plasma that forms the arc and the spark is from the surrounding ether. I am sure that it does not come from the copper tube.
What I also think is that the electrons and the atomic frequency and energy of the copper is what provides the amps being used, which in this case is very small being mostly fast moving volts.

thank you.
I always think about what you say,

jeanna

   Perhaps we are both right.  The standing wave field is developed using hamonic input frequencies which produces the standing wave.  This would be the make and brake of his motorized spark gaps.  Or just may be putting the generator or supply circuit into oscillation.  The spark gap is used first as a capacitive coupling between the oscillating supply and the output.  But upon this standing wavefield is induced a transient wave.  The rate of change (as I have referred to numerous times over in the jt thread) or what Steven Marks called the kick traverses the standing wavefield.  The transition from o to 3ooo volts to o produces electromagnetic radiation well above visible light if you get my drift.  If you start to get into nanometer wavelengths atoms start getting vibrated apart.  Again the energy needed to ionize an atom is more dependent on frequency than intensity.  Throw the sweep speed of your osciiliscope all the way up.  If your shot still shows a vertical line your getting close.  If you do the same and there is no line but your spark gap is emitting light and sound then we are getting close.

@Jadaro

  The Tesla patent # is 381,970   It was issued in 1888 when dc was being distributed

Jeanna,

Can you by using your JouleThief charge 400v electrolytic cap ? How fast can it be done ?
I think you can be interested also that Tesla radiant energy patent from 1900 indicate that you should be able to charge a cap by using a diode  joined  JT output with capacitor when one terminal of cap is connected to earth ground.

just find on russian forum:

http://www.matri-x.ru/forum/index.php?/topic/971-%d1%83%d1%81%d1%82%d0%b0%d0%bd%d0%be%d0%b2%d0%ba%d0%b0-%d1%82%d0%b0%d1%80%d0%b8%d0%b5%d0%bb%d1%8f-%d0%ba%d0%b0%d0%bf%d0%b0%d0%bd%d0%b0%d0%b4%d0%b7%d0%b5/page__st__320

good ! and the results are scary ... due to energy escaping every where it can

But welding machines are AC right?

Bill