Use for the Tesla Switch

[vrand]

No the cap just needs to be regular capacitor, 1 farad stereo type caps are nice cause they have some holding power with little to no resistance.
Those big caps aren't what you want. They are hard to charge and discharge cause of the High ESR on them.

Rockford Fosgate RFC1D Capacitor | eBay

I use an older equivalent.

The schematic is this one http://www.matthewcjones.com/power/SimpleSwitch.jpg.
Don't read to much into it its just an outline.

@all
The drawings of the switch's are taking some time so as soon as they are done I will finish up and compile the whole article.

Matt

Thanks Matt, looking forward to learning more on your experiments. Was there a video posted? What what the maximum output power on the large design?

Back in 1983 Ron Brandt claimed to run his car on his Tesla switch and up to 60 mph.

THE TESLA SWITCH

BTW the Maxwell Ultracapacitors have extremely low internal resistance (ESR) and consequent high cycle efficiency (95% or more) and extremely low heating levels. The biggest downside is the price, as to get 16V to 20V peak in the Maxwell ultracaps would be 5 to 10X more than that $70 Rockford-Fosgate-RFC1D-Capacitor.

How many of the Rockford capacitors needed? That one photo (see below) showed 7 capacitors?



Keep up the good work

Cheers Mike

[rosehillworks]

At all
here is the diagram for my build.

[Matthew Jones]

Thanks Matt for the parts list and looking forward to the schematics.

What is the voltage for the farad caps? Would larger farad caps work even better in this design? Like the Maxwell Ultracapacitors +2000 farad caps?

Cheers Mike

No the cap just needs to be regular capacitor, 1 farad stereo type caps are nice cause they have some holding power with little to no resistance.
Those big caps aren't what you want. They are hard to charge and discharge cause of the High ESR on them.

Rockford Fosgate RFC1D Capacitor | eBay

I use an older equivalent.

The schematic is this one http://www.matthewcjones.com/power/SimpleSwitch.jpg.
Don't read to much into it its just an outline.

@all
The drawings of the switch's are taking some time so as soon as they are done I will finish up and compile the whole article.

Matt

[vrand]

[*] 1-3 farad worth of capacitors. Your choice. Quality capacitors should be used.

This evening I will start to post schematics and switching details.

Thanks
Matt

Thanks Matt for the parts list and looking forward to the schematics.

What is the voltage for the farad caps? Would larger farad caps work even better in this design? Like the Maxwell Ultracapacitors +2000 farad caps?

Cheers Mike

[rosehillworks]

Matt.
Thanks for all your help

The IGBT's are 300 amp@1200v thay are rated for 4100watts of output
Matt has come up with a good switch!. He was a big help on this one! I will do some testing and will try to post it here.

[ashtweth]

Thank you so much Matty , Will , Jeff et ALL
gonna write this up for you guys with all your credits.
beautiful to watch your team work my friends

Ash

[Matthew Jones]

Matt,
On the list for the large build it says 40 100+ amp switches. Did you mean that, or did you mean FOUR?
It also says 50 diodes for building bridge rectifiers. Should that say FIVE? (I realize one bridge uses four.)
Just asking. I will buy whatever, and I ALWAYS want extra of everything. I just didn't see that many switches or bridge rectifiers in the schematics, but then i'm not that great at reading schematics. And it's never BAD to have extras!!!!!

David Bowling

Between 40 amp up to 100 amp switch's or more if you can afford them.

It should be 50 seperate diodes. Your really going to use 48 but 50 is the price break, I think. Anyway your going to use 12 per slot. So you will have 1 bridge rectifier with 48 diodes, You'll use 12 in each slot instead of 1.

Yes that is the key to the power The bigger the inductance and the lower the resistance

YEP!!!


Matt

[mbrownn]

Ya the primaries are LOW resistance. The point is to collect the SPARE magnetic field and make it work while retaining your original power.

Matt

Yes that is the key to the power The bigger the inductance and the lower the resistance

[Turion]

Matt,
On the list for the large build it says 40 100+ amp switches. Did you mean that, or did you mean FOUR?
It also says 50 diodes for building bridge rectifiers. Should that say FIVE? (I realize one bridge uses four.)
Just asking. I will buy whatever, and I ALWAYS want extra of everything. I just didn't see that many switches or bridge rectifiers in the schematics, but then i'm not that great at reading schematics. And it's never BAD to have extras!!!!!

David Bowling

[Matthew Jones]

I am very interested in how the transformer is working. I have been scanning through the previous posts and correct me if I am wrong, the setup is very similar to how I am doing it with the Lockridge device. Two primaries opposing and a collector over the top and resistance has to be very low?

Ya the primaries are LOW resistance. The point is to collect the SPARE magnetic field and make it work while retaining your original power.

Matt

[Matthew Jones]

Shopping list and details

So I got alot of response and people want to build.
But first I got to tell most of ya, this is the simplest way I can think of to build a Tesla Switch. I cannot imagine anything easier to build.
So I do not have the time to answer questions all day but I will try to keep up with them, IF your actually building a version of one.
I am going to give 2 recipes one for small and one for big. I know everyone can't afford the big one but it is really better in the long run.
Also if you have question on the list of product I'll answer right now.... I do not care if you substitute parts as long as YOU KNOW WHAT YOUR DOING. If it doesn't work out DO NOT ASK ME WHY...Period!

I will start out with a full list of material's needed so you can start to make choice about your budget. Then I will give give switching setup details. I will post a checklist of tests to run through to minimize mistakes and danger. Then you will get TUNING instructions and Measurement points.
At the END I will post all this info into one PDF file for Download.

In addition to the list of material you may consider getting volt meters amp meters either clamp style or gauge style. This will help when tuning and gathering data. Scopes are nice so you can look at you power but not needed.

SHOPPING LIST

Little One

• 4- batteries of equal size 5-20 amp hour.
• Simple B2 Stamp kit
  Stamp Stack II Kit
  Stamp Learning Kit
  KIT BASIC STAMP 2 OEM MODULE - 27291
  You can use a PIC or Arduino or any IC other than the stamp that will turn a PIN on and OFF, BUT you better know how to write the code and how to calculate TIME for the pulses. Sorry...Stamp is easy and Simple, that is why I am recommending it.
• 1- IRON based Standard Transformer.
  25.2V CT 2.0A Heavy-Duty Chassis-Mount Transformer with Lead - RadioShack.com ****Best money spent
  Digi-Key Transformer
  Or...You can salvage one out of an appliance as long as its the same size or bigger and iron plated. 2" wide, 2" tall, 1"+ inch's thick.
• 200 ft or so of 20 AWG magnetic wire.
• 2- 10-20 amp switch's.
  ****See schematic details on switch's after list
• 40 amp bridge rectifier, OR 4 diodes to build one
  Digi-Key - FFPF15UP20STTU-ND (Manufacturer - FFPF15UP20STTU) ***Best Option
  Or you can hit your local supplier and buy something of your choice
• Capacitor, 5 of the following
  Digi-Key - 565-2677-ND (Manufacturer - ESMH500VSN103MR45T)
  NOW you can find something close on EBAY what you need is 50,000 uf at or about 25 volt or more. You can buy multiples or singles that are in that range.
  This is not a key component it is simply there to provide a short term storage for you load.
• 12-14 volt .5 to 1 amp load, preferably an automotive incandescent bulb.

BIG ONE

If you are going to build this one you had better be able to follow basic schematic and you had better have GOOD organization skills so that you keep track of what you are doing and what wires are what. ONE WRONG connection can cause a serious damage to the system and operator. I do not take any responsibility for such mistakes. Safety should be your first priority. When in doubt do NOT do anything and ask.

• 4 Batteries 100 amp hour or better
• A Stamp module, Or IC controller, see above list
• Transformer. 1 -3 KVA or 1000 to 3000 watts. BIGGER IS BETTER.
  3000 Watts Step Down Voltage Converter
• #6 AWG Square magnetic wire at 150 ft, OR #14 awg magnetic wire at 300 ft. Now you can use anything in between the 2 listed wire. But do not go smaller than 14 awg, and DO NOT THINK you can wrap 5 strand of 20 awg together to come up with that size. This a recipe for HEAT and does not work well. You cannot use insulated wire either, this is also a recipe for poor inductance.
• 40 - 100+ amp switch's BIGGER IS BETTER.
  ****See schematic details on switch's after list
• 200 amp Bridge rectifier.
  Digi-Key - FFPF15UP20STTU-ND (Manufacturer - FFPF15UP20STTU) ***Best Option you will need 50 of these and some Copper or PCB board.
  Or you can spend big money and buy prebuilt Bridges. The above diode setup that recommend building is CHEAP and FAST with a low power loss. This is important when you start driving loads.
• 1-3 farad worth of capacitors. Your choice. Quality capacitors should be used.
• a 12 volt 100 watt load for tuning. Halogen light bulbs for automotive or home use are the best.

This evening I will start to post schematics and switching details.

Thanks
Matt

[mbrownn]

Hey Carroll the transformer is is just 3 winding of #6 (Supposed to be anyway) the 2 primaries are equal the secondary or output wire is about 25% longer. This keep the potential up on the output.

Matt

I am very interested in how the transformer is working. I have been scanning through the previous posts and correct me if I am wrong, the setup is very similar to how I am doing it with the Lockridge device. Two primaries opposing and a collector over the top and resistance has to be very low?

[Hope]

Surface Tension of Fluid Matter

There is a surface cohesion similar to water surface tension that has been noted in fluid matter. Could it be as simple as, when we disrupt the surface cohesion of magnetic fields that the sea of energy lend it energy to make that balance happen? I noticed a small boat passing thru the mile wide area near two islands. It was just a 18 footer with a 30 hp putter on the transom. He was making about 5 knots. There was a small wake but this wake made waves on both sides of the passage on the two islands shores of 5-8 inches and the noise was loud and continuous from these waves on both shores. The amount of water falling constantly from the waves must have weighted cumulatively thousands of pounds. How did this little boat lift all this water weight that was falling constantly? Nature must be correcting the surface tension?? So if this example is also how balance is regained what would it have to add back to a magnetic field rubbing another magnetic field to try to regain balance. Do you think this is where what we are seeking is coming from? I wonder like you all do, who can lend light on this? I am certainly curious for an explanation. I was reading the opening statements to this topic and thought this might be of use.

[Turion]

Large IGBT modules typically consist of many devices in parallel and can have very high current handling capabilities in the order of hundreds of amperes with blocking voltages of 6000 V, equating to hundreds of kilowatts.

Here is one location I found
IGBTs, 900-1300V - STMicroelectronics

[hherby]

Hey all

This week RoseHill Works came up to the house all the way from Missouri to get his switch running.

It is the first steps in few but we have got his Simple Switch running like a champ. So far just 100 watt load running for testing purposes.

But this switch with IGBT's that drive it is more than capable of driving a 3kw load with long term power output, completely driven DIGITALLY. Of course we have to add the batteries, but this is it.
Still needs few things likes the bells and whistles worked out but they are well on the way.

I just wanted to publicly thank him and his team for giving me the opportunity to help set it up.

Here is some picks for ya'll

Cheers
Matt

Hey Matt,
3kw using IGBT's ? They would need to handle close to 250amps. Do you have a part number for it?

Thanks,
Alex