Nikola Tesla Wireless Power

[Penguin Fart Racing]

Waaaay back in the late 1880's Tesla gave us AC electricity, the TESLA Coil and lots more; even wireless and spark-less transmission of large amounts of electrical power ( https://www.history.com/news/nikola-tesla-files-declassified-fbi ). HISTORY CHANNEL p1 shows people replicating his work and running a TRAXXAS SPARTAN with a Tesla Coil as the prime energy source. My feeble attempts have only transmitter ~30 mA a distance of 20 meters. Imagine running a TRAXXAS XMAXX or XO-1with only a few AA alkaline batteries in the vehicle ! Anyone in this FORUM tinkering with this? Or cheap, easy to fabricate, safe room temperature SUPERCOUCTORS ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconductivity ) ?

 

[Doom!]

So many cool technologies we will never see because it cuts into big business profits.

 

[Chubaka]

So many cool technologies we will never see because it cuts into big business profits.

Not too many people bring that up. I agree 100%

 

[Jimbobjr]

Nikola Tesla invented the 20th century, period. In Philadelphia theres a Tesla foundation. The founder and president happens to be our local locksmith Nikola Lonchar. They might be able to help or steer you towards some information.

https://teslasciencefoundation.org/

 

[AlanDewey]

"Wireless power transmission" will never safely work at a distance of more than a few inches. Look up "inverse square law."

Nikola died alone and pennyless because he spent his fortune trying to make it work. He and Edison got very wealthy because they were completely obsessed with their ideas. Edison went bankrupt twice because of his obsessions, but got rich three times. After becoming very wealthy once, Tesla then went bankrupt. He probably had lots of more great ideas but did not pursue them due to his obsession with wireless power transmission.

Edison had a few great inventions which made him enough money to then invent the "invention factory." He was obsessed with DC power transmission and whether he was just too stubborn to listen to the experts, or maybe his hatred of Tesla, he refused to accept the idea of AC power.

Tesla was backed by Westinghouse (who invented "air brakes" for trains) to bring multiphase power transmission to the world. Except for extremely high voltage transmission lines, power transmission of any significant distance is in almost every case delivered by AC.

Yes, wireless power transmission can work, but not safely. You have to use microwavelengths. You can tear open your microwave oven and use that kilowatt to power your small RC truck if you can keep the transmitting and receiving antennas pointed at each other. Before you try this be sure to make out a final will and testament, or at least get very good health insurance.

RFID is actually wireless power transmission. The RFID reader transmits power and the ID tag can grab enough power to run the "chip" that modulates the antenna impedance enough for the RFID reader to decode the field modulation. 125 kHz RFID is called "contact readers" like your ID/access badge to get into the office, you put your access card right up against the RFID reader. A lot of toys use 13.56 MHz RFID and those work quite reliably to a distance of many inches. 915 MHz (868 MHz in europe) can do this up to 3 meters. The RF field of the 915 MHz systems leaving the antenna is 4 watt ERP which is enough that a few microwatt can be collected by the RFID tag to run the 'chip.'

 

[WVNed]

So many cool technologies we will never see because it cuts into big business profits.

This is silly

 

[nino]

Unfortunately, a lot of charlatans and pseudoscientists latch onto Tesla's name and personality nowadays.

And regarding his life and death... well, he accomplished what he did thanks to emigrating to the States. Had he stayed over here he'd probably have ended up as the village idiot.

 

[Penguin Fart Racing]

Ron again. Just wondering if anyone on this FORUM has ever or plans to experiment with my initial quoted HISTORY CHANNEL POST up to YOUTUBE

. Running a TRAXXAS SPARTAN in the video ( last 1/3 of the vid ) is impressive. I've tried a bit but have only gotten a handful of milliamps to "go" maybe 15 ft. Have a new TESLA COIL KIT coming from OneTesla https://onetesla.com/products/kits/oneteslats-all/oneteslats.html and will try this Fall to visit the TESLA SCIENCS CENTER in Shoreham where his WARDENCLYFFE TOWER was built https://teslasciencecenter.org/. The thought crossed my mind to learn Serbian and trekk to the Tesla Museum in Belgrade once the mess in Eastern Europe settles down https://nikolateslamuseum.org/en/ .

 

[nino]

Dude, you live in the USA. You'll be safer anywhere in Europe. Probably including Ukraine.

 

[Iowa crawler]

I can imagine Tesla could have transmitted power like a radio signal. That would make power feed to the people. Electric cars and airplanes without the need for fuel or batteries. And then I think he is the one that destroyed it. Because it’s to dangerous for people to use. We are not ready for that yet.

 

[ahr43]

Detroit has (had?) an experimental one-mile section of road for recharging EV's as they travel over it.

Might make for an interesting RC adaptation.

 

[WVNed]

Ron again. Just wondering if anyone on this FORUM has ever or plans to experiment with my initial quoted HISTORY CHANNEL POST up to YOUTUBE

. Running a TRAXXAS SPARTAN in the video ( last 1/3 of the vid ) is impressive. I've tried a bit but have only gotten a handful of milliamps to "go" maybe 15 ft. Have a new TESLA COIL KIT coming from OneTesla https://onetesla.com/products/kits/oneteslats-all/oneteslats.html and will try this Fall to visit the TESLA SCIENCS CENTER in Shoreham where his WARDENCLYFFE TOWER was built https://teslasciencecenter.org/. The thought crossed my mind to learn Serbian and trekk to the Tesla Museum in Belgrade once the mess in Eastern Europe settles down https://nikolateslamuseum.org/en/ .

I think there is a bit of slight of hand in this video. The boat is supposed to be powered from shore with a wire from the receiving Tesla tower. The boat shown running is obviously not dragging a wire. I think the boat could be made to operate but not in an interesting way. A wire on the back would drag a lot
Also if I remember it said the tower produced 25KW. So at 30 some feet you get enough power across for a toy boat.
From reading I did long ago I seem to remember Tesla was actually trying to send power through the earth. The return path was in the air. It occurs to me that that would mean he was working on sending a DC current over a path created by an ionizing AC connection made with high frequency high voltage.
Man made lightning that can be directed between two places that are tuned to the same frequency.

 

[tntpoof]

edison ripped tesla off the 50.000$ he had promised tesla for comping to the usa and working for him.I wish people that posted things actually knew the facts,