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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