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  • #16
    Hi Seden,
    Originally posted by Seden
    J-Player,first of all I'm surprised at you not reading carefully my post. As I mentioned to Elie, I'm trying to find a rationale of how Andreas LRL works with his Tesla Coil antennas.
    Actually I did read the posts about Andrea's LRL that were presented with photos by Esteban. I figured you made a mistake, as there is no Tesla coil in Andrea's LRL. The circuitry which was posted shows a radio transmitter sending power to an antenna at 800 khz, and receiver that filters the antenna signal before detecting, then buffers and amplifies the signal and sends it to a field intensity meter and an audio circuit. But there is no circuitry or apparatus that could be connected to a Tesla coil in any way. I have no clue why Estaban made a comment about Tesla coils in that thread, but it was certainly unrelated to Andrea's LRL. There are also missing parts of the circuitry according to Andreas which include a preamp stage for the antenna, a dummy load circuit, and detail drawings of the antenna. None of these missing drawings includes any components of a Tesla coil.

    The device Esteban displayed as Andreas project is a transmitter and receiver, similar to other LRL devices like the Vernell Electronics VR5000 and others. In the case of Andreas LRL, he is not willing to divulge details of how to build it and tune it, or any other details of the principle of operation. Therefore we can only conclude it is an 800 khz radio transmitter and reciever that works in some mysterious way to locate treasures. We know approximately the same information about the Vernell Electronics LRL devices.

    The concept of broadcasting white noise and observing the changes in spectrum that is picked up with a receiver is a similar idea to broadcasting a fixed frequency and sensing signal strength in different locations. The white noise advantage is you have more frequencies broadcast, and are limited only by the receiver in what you can pick up. A major disadvantage is you don't have the ability to tune to a known frequency and continually follow an uninterrupted signal to see where its strength becomes stronger or weaker. You are depending on random occurrences of a given frequency. If I wanted to investigate what frequencies could be picked up more prominantly in the presence of a buried target, I would prefer to have good control of the broadcast frequency. That is, I would prefer to use a transmitter whose frequency could be adjusted over a range while tuning a receiver to follow the transmitted frequency. It may take several transmitters to cover a band such as the UHF band, But still I would prefer this method, not only because of the better control of transmitter frequency, but also because of the possibilities of observing things such as phase angle changes, fluctuations in frequency as well as amplitude, finding harmonics that appear only with certain frequencies, and because of the ease of dealing with known radio technology.

    This is not to say that there is some valuable information to be derived from observing broadband noise changes in the presence of a buried target. I may be overlooking important aspects of a white noise signal, but my thinking is that the end result would be to find some specific frequencies that behave differently than neighboring frequencies. And I think if this is the result that you will find, it should be much easier to discover using standard radio transmitter/receiver methods rather than white noise spectrum analyzing.

    As far as using a very high voltage for long range sensing, the most useful application of a Tesla coil that comes to mind is building up an artificial electric field which is many times stronger than the natural atmospheric field. A properly designed network of Tesla coils could convert an unsearchable acreage to prime hunting condition for those who want to use static and ionic sensors. Certain atmospheric conditions must exist in order for this scheme to work, but they would work in 80% of the earth's land masses when weather conditions permitted. Also the design, configuration and operation of these coils must be done in a way that does not introduce new interference into the field to be searched. In theory, such a network of high voltage coils and auxiliary apparatus would effectively counteract many of the "atmospheric interference" outages that prevent LRLs from working.

    But to use a Tesla coil as a component of a hand-held LRL is a different story. There may be a few home brew Tesla coil based LRLs in existence, but I found little information on them. There is one post in this forum which shows a rare Tesla coil LRL for sale here: http://thunting.com/geotech/forums/s...ighlight=tesla


    For Elie, if you are really disturbed about our LRL conversation referencing an unrelated patent on a Tesla coil, consider that radio transmitters and receivers are not related to any LRL patents that I know of, yet this forum is full of conversations and schematics showing radio transmitter and receiver methods. There are also posts in this forum about who won the soccer championships, not exactly related to long range locating. If you truly believe we shouldn't be able to talk about long range locating using a Tesla coil, you can click the little red triangle at the top of the post and plead for Carl to remove our posts. Or perhaps you can reveal some other unknown purpose why you came here? Certainly not to contribute anything of value to the topic of sensing white noise from a Tesla coil?

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    • #17
      Great explanation J-Player

      That is true regarding white noise not being able to get phase information from it. The post I had in mind by Esteban was on the first page of Andreas LRL,post#24 dated July 4th 02:51 AM where he refers about a Tesla Coil drawing he did which as you pointed out is not shown in the thread at all. So he goes on to describe the Tesla coil and how to tune it,etc.

      Here's a another idea that would solve the lack of phase information and that would be to use a swept carrier which would be very simple to implement with a single 74hc4046 by taking the carrier from the VCO amplifying it and send it to the transmit coil and the receive coils output to the input of the PLL.

      But I tell you J-Player,I'm really interested how you can determine what mineral or metal you have by the phase differences by using Spectral Induced Polarization whereby you look at the phase difference between a couple sub-audio frequencies (typically .01hz and 1hz). What determines the phase difference is the size of the mineral/metal grains. The downside is as you probably know, the naturally occuring noise really takes off below 1hz.

      Thank you for contributing your technical thoughts to this thread,greatly appreciate it and learn alot.

      Randy

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      • #18
        SEDEN, IF YOU ARE WRITING ABOUT THIS WITH REGARD TO ANDREAS, THEN WHY DID YOU NOT PUT IT IN THE THREAD ABOUT ANDREAS? THE PATENT IS NOT FOR A "LONG RANGE LOCATOR," AND THEREFORE SHOULD NOT BE IN THE REMOTE SENSING SECTION, UNLESS YOU ARE WRITING ABOUT HOW THE PATENT RELATES TO LRL "RESEARCH." OH, WAIT. YOU CONVIENTLY NEGLECTED TO MENTION THAT YOU WERE WRITING ABOUT HOW THE PATENT RELATED TO LRL "RESEARCH," AND THEN CHEWED ME OUT FOR WONDERING WHY YOU STARTED A WHOLE NEW THREAD, INSTEAD OF PUTTING THIS IN THE OTHER THREAD, WHERE ANDREAS IS ACTUALLY DISCUSSED.
        J PLAYER, SOCCER CHAMPIONSHIPS DO NOT BELONG IN ANY OTHER SECTION OF THIS FORUM ANY MORE THAN THEY BELONG IN THIS SECTION, BUT SONAR GOES IN THE SONAR SECTION, MAGNETOMETERS GO IN THE MAGNETOMETER SECTION, ETC.

        MANCHE SCHACHPARTIEN SPIELEN KEINE VIER, SONDERN SECHS PFERDE MIT.

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        • #19
          Originally posted by Elie
          SEDEN, IF YOU ARE WRITING ABOUT THIS WITH REGARD TO ANDREAS, THEN WHY DID YOU NOT PUT IT IN THE THREAD ABOUT ANDREAS? THE PATENT IS NOT FOR A "LONG RANGE LOCATOR," AND THEREFORE SHOULD NOT BE IN THE REMOTE SENSING SECTION, UNLESS YOU ARE WRITING ABOUT HOW THE PATENT RELATES TO LRL "RESEARCH." OH, WAIT. YOU CONVIENTLY NEGLECTED TO MENTION THAT YOU WERE WRITING ABOUT HOW THE PATENT RELATED TO LRL "RESEARCH," AND THEN CHEWED ME OUT FOR WONDERING WHY YOU STARTED A WHOLE NEW THREAD, INSTEAD OF PUTTING THIS IN THE OTHER THREAD, WHERE ANDREAS IS ACTUALLY DISCUSSED.
          Errr.. Elie, if you actually read above, you will discover what the rest of us discovered. Andreas never mentioned anything about Tesla coils, nor does his project have anything to do with Tesla coils. If Seden was to move his posts to that thread, they would be irrelevant and would be percieved as an attempt to hijack that thread, just as you are percieved as trying to hijack this one. In my humble opinion, Seden's posts and conversation belongs right here where he posted them.

          Originally posted by Elie
          J PLAYER, SOCCER CHAMPIONSHIPS DO NOT BELONG IN ANY OTHER SECTION OF THIS FORUM ANY MORE THAN THEY BELONG IN THIS SECTION, BUT SONAR GOES IN THE SONAR SECTION, MAGNETOMETERS GO IN THE MAGNETOMETER SECTION, ETC.
          I am sorry I don't have any sonar posts to put in the sonar forum at this time, or magnetometer posts to put in the magnetometer forum at this time, etc. Perhaps you can solve the problem of putting posts there by posting something in those forums yourself. If you are really disturbed about soccer championships not belonging in any section of this forum, then I suggest you hunt down these soccer posts and click on the little red triangle to bring them to the attention of Carl, and beg him to remove them. Neither I nor Seden is able to delete or move posts to your satisfaction. Only Carl can do this.

          ps. While you are at it, perhaps you could ask Carl to delete your posts, as they have nothing to do with remote sensing technology.

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          • #20
            Here's Estebans post on the Andreas LRL I was thinking of from the first page of the thread:
            Esteban, please do not use Tesla coil any more!

            RObert, do you have rights in it? The Tesla coil drawing I post is: a kind of HV coil type Tesla and other secondary coil. The both coils are very critic in quality of winding, no defect can have, must be exceptional, turn by turn, with various covers of barnish. Adjusted by Hertz resonator (via spark).
            Attached Images

            So now you can read for yourselves where he specifically mentions "Tesla Coils".

            Hope this helps clear things up!

            Randy

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            • #21
              Tesla or not?

              Hi Seden,

              Esteban described classic Tesla coil construction using a high voltage primary, with critical construction methods and tuning for resonance with a spark gap. Because he describes his diagram of a primary coil as a high voltage coil, it seems unlikely he is referring to this coil as part of Andreas project. There really is no high voltage in Andreas project, unless the missing antenna preamp circuit he described included a high voltage primary driver and the missing antenna details included a miniature Tesla coil.

              This seems unlikely. But if it is true, then the only trick to completing the missing design elements of the project is to construct a small Tesla coil and driver that will fit in the tube at the antenna. This also means doing the critical tuning to achieve resonance. While Esteban's diagram shows a single turn coil with a spark gap, I would think it more likely to use a FET than a spark gap for the primary oscillator in this application. There are still no details about how this Tesla coil would interface to the circuitry for the transmitting antenna. The simplest interface would be to send the 800 khz to a preamp that increased the voltage and had a power amplifier, and then use the output as a power source to run the primary side of the Tesla coil instead of using a 50/60 hz main power source. Even after this preamp stage, the power is limited to the battery capacity, and would not allow much wattage in a Tesla coil. If this Tesla coil is used in Andreas transmitting antenna, it raises question of what is it's purpose. I doubt it is intended to produce sparks. Do you suppose it is intended to create a high voltage for the purpose of increasing the local static charge in the air where the treasure hunting is done?

              Do you think Esteban described a Tesla coil to be used in Andreas project? Was he telling us Andreas project is a long range sensor with a static field augmenter, or is it simply a RF transmitter/receiver type LRL?

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              • #22
                Further info on Estebans coil

                J-Player,

                I emailed Esteban for further claification and he didn't want to say much as it was Andreas project but yes the Tesla coil is part of the system and I was told by Andreas by private email that he would supply further details once I had actually built the circuit. So that's all I know guy's and thank you for your input to this thread. Time to end it I would think.

                Randy

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                • #23
                  End it?

                  I would suggest this is a good project to build if it actually will locate targets from a long distance. The circuitry is easy, with the only difficult part to be constructing the Tesla coil. It requires very careful coil winding methods with several coats of varnish over the secondary coil, and also some painstaking tuning. The exact positioning of this coil is probably important to properly tune it as well.

                  I seriously doubt that Esteban or Andreas would mislead you in the ability of this device, and it looks like the most promising LRL project I have seen in this forum. I would suspect more useful for treasure hunting than the SIP project you are considering.

                  Best of luck,
                  J_Player

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                  • #24
                    ?

                    Dear Seden. Regularly you should me ask from details for the manufacture. I said last e-mail, I will help you, other, you did not send answer. I think is your error. They is last time where you I will help you. My project they is genuine instrument and not LRL . I use really coils Tesla transmitter - receiver and I detect phenomenon where sorry..... I can't present. All began from study of bibliography 1950-1960 and a Russian manufacture (amazing for me). After this I drew this machine that it finds (100% only old burried nails) in distances above 50metres. Now I know beginnings that and I use for detection of other metals. Afterwards however from stubids were presented here, I am compelled to stop. I believe that you have certain elements that can you help in research. Last one, the frequencies they is not critical. Now I think of manufacturing same with frequency tranSmitter and receiver 800-900MHZ and size (a parcel cigarettes)
                    crypton's designer

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                    • #25
                      Originally posted by ANDREAS View Post
                      Dear Seden. Regularly you should me ask from details for the manufacture. I said last e-mail, I will help you, other, you did not send answer. I think is your error. They is last time where you I will help you. My project they is genuine instrument and not LRL . I use really coils Tesla transmitter - receiver and I detect phenomenon where sorry..... I can't present. All began from study of bibliography 1950-1960 and a Russian manufacture (amazing for me). After this I drew this machine that it finds (100% only old burried nails) in distances above 50metres. Now I know beginnings that and I use for detection of other metals. Afterwards however from stubids were presented here, I am compelled to stop. I believe that you have certain elements that can you help in research. Last one, the frequencies they is not critical. Now I think of manufacturing same with frequency tranSmitter and receiver 800-900MHZ and size (a parcel cigarettes)
                      Hi Andreas,
                      "All began from study of bibliography 1950-1960 and a Russian manufacture (amazing for me)."

                      Semyon Davidovitch Kirlian ?
                      ...
                      from a website out here

                      "Kirlian Photography is a process of recording the corona discharge between a subject (in this case a human finger) and a high voltage, low current electrode. In 1961, Semyon Davidovitch and Valentina Kirlian published a paper in the Russian Journal of Scientific and Applied Photography where they described the process now called Kirlian Photography."

                      If your system uses corona effects it's a "kirlian-LRL"! or not ?

                      Best regards,
                      Max

                      "Kill for gain or shoot to maim...
                      But we dont need a reason
                      "

                      someone said...

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                      • #26
                        ?

                        Hi Max.
                        Intelligent thought but No!
                        Exist a lot of reports in "burried" files. I have made trial Kirlian and Theremin circuits, but, nothing particular.
                        Also regular connections Tesla coils don't work. They is few.... insane the application .
                        regards
                        crypton's designer

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