Originally Posted by J_Player
Hi Max,
Tesla was a genius from Croatia who moved to the USA where he found more industries he was interested in. His Idea was to provide free energy for all people, because he thought this would help to remove the reasons for wars. He discovered that when he built machines for free energy, the governments wanted to take his machines to make more war. In his later years, he was more secretive to protect his ideas and keep them from the govenrments for use in more wars.
His power transducer used in the car is not known. There have been many speculations by people who read the stories. The scientists usually decide they cannot determine what was the principle and power source. But Pseudoscientists love this story because they can use it to help them prove their pseudoscience theories, like perpetual motion, and free energy from a vacum, etc. Because the details were secret, a pseudoscientist can say he discovered Tesla's secret, and has modified the machine to find treasures long range, or to make free power.
But what makes sense?
Tesla's later experiments showed that if he built a large high voltage transformer and caused it to create a path (ionized air tube) that reached from the ionosphere to the ground, and AC was applied at the proper frequency, then he could draw surplus power from the ionsphere into his coil, more power than he used to open the path to the ionosphere.
Tesla's method of obtaining power from the ionosphere brought DC pulses similar to 1/2 wave rectified AC. The pulses from the ionosphere helped a resonant circuit in his high voltage transformer to increase in power. This resonant circuit was part of the high voltage primary, which he powered to produce the secondary voltage. The power he received can be sent to any power equipment you want... batteries, motors, capacitor banks, etc. But it should be large power handling equipment if you intend to use a large amount of the ionosphere power.
There was no ground transmitter that ran Tesla's car. His last tower was dismantled years before. He was living alone in a modest apartment in New York, and had no access to towers and large power broadcasting equipment. Nobody else was experimenting with these towers at that time. There was no power station sending power to the car. Therefore, the most likely source of power is the ionosphere. Tesla gave details how to connect to the ionosphere on many occasions. He even showed all details in his patents. For this reason, it seems likely that this is the source of power for his car.
The removable box for his car did not only contain tubes. It also had capacitors, resistors, connecting wires, etc, in the style of old radio connecting methods. If I am correct in my opinion about Tesla's power source, then this box was the controller that kept the primary side of the high voltage transformer to the correct frequency and power level. There were more parts that were located in the car permanently. The 80 HP motor was installed in place of the ICE engine. I suspect there also must have been some large salt water capacitors used for high voltage in those days. And a battery that was used to create the initial power to energize the primary and establish a conductive tube to the ionosphere. When the power circuit begins to work and receive power, then I would think the power is controlled by the accelerator pedal connected to a rheostat for the controller box. But there also must be an auxiliary power circuit for charging the battery to run the lights and instruments. The motor was 220 VAC, so there must have been some small transformer and rectifier to charge the battery.
I think all those parts were permanently installed on the car. But Tesla kept the controller circuit secret in a removable box, so nobody would discover the details of how he made this controller. I think it is probably similar to his large megawatt designs, but scaled down for less power, and it probably has improvements that his larger patented versions did not have. Possibly the high voltage transformer was installed permanently in the car, but it may have been inside the electronic control box if Tesla figured a way to miniaturize it when re-designing for low power. We know the antenna plugged into the box.
When you read more of the Tesla papers, remember -- there are many pseudoscientists saying they have machines that work on Tesla's same principles. You will read talk about Auras, time travel, gravity transformations, and other strange science. But these are BS. -- Not the same as what Tesla did. Tesla produced real power that you can use to run motors and lights in your home. Not just a lot of talk with fake breadboard demonstrations and secret experiments that are too dangerous for anyone to know about. Read Tesla's patents and see for yourself. Better yet, look at the AC power plug on your wall. It would not be there if Tesla did not design it and the power generating equipment that makes it feed power to you.
Best wishes,
J_P
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