Posted on 01/24/2005 1:13:36 PM PST by hsmomx3
We all know that these people use underground tunnels that they build to smuggle people and drugs into our country. I can just see them splicing thru an underground cable.
It's just a high frequency step up transformer. The spark gap, capacitor and primary form a resonant circuit. The large secondary provides the step up. It is common to excite the resonant primary with something like a neon transformer.
Actually they are similar to the high voltage circuit (flyback transformer) in a TV. The big difference is a true tesla coil uses a spark gap where your TV does not.
That's when you were young and dumb, huh? Had you said what a wonderful country is she probably would have married you on Sunday morning.
Shouldn't we be looking more into these things so we can be less dependent on oil? Just wondering aloud. Don't mind me *LOL*
BTW, very nice coil you described. :-)
What is that supposed to mean?
People have been building these for years. Unfortunately you cannot get something from nothing. (At least at this level of physics :-))
Takes more power to run than you can "reap". :-)
What is happening is that the peons are paying for their stolen electricty but not paying the electric company. It is electric company and government employees who are setting up the power taps and charging the users for doing so. They rationalize that the power comes from the public entity and they can take it and sell it.
Just check your local Mexican landscapping crews. They all think it is perfectly acceptable in the US to blow leaves out into the street because the street is a public asset.
Here, the real thieves are electric company employees and no one is going to stop them because they are related to company officials and government folks and kick back to them a portion of the peons' pesos.
I should probably read up before asking too many questions (at risk of sounding completely ignorant), but I am curious about what causes the effect.
Do the Tesla coils use a single, constant source of alternating current?
I ought to be going back to that site soon. Wanna tag along?
They are so used to people giving them fish instead of showing them how to fish.
You need to contact JimRob and volunteer for the ZOT team!
This is why many Freepers idea of an electric fence is doomed. There would be extension cords running all the way to Mexico City.
Leave 'em alone...they're only stealing the electricity that Americans won't.
The power company should send an announcement to all paying customers that on a specified day and time they are to disconnnect from the grid for 5 minutes. When the time comes, the power company should up the voltage going through their lines by 50%. That will fry every appliance still attached to the grid. If the power thieves have no more appliances, they won't need to steal the juice.
They need more windmills.
References concerning building Tesla coils
http://205.243.100.155/frames/build1.html
Yep, Insulting the girl's country isn't exactly out of the pages of Andrew Carnegie.
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