In Greek mythology, Zeus is the Father of Gods and men. He rules Mount Olympus with his remarkable control over lightning. I sought out to harness the same power possessed by Zeus by following in the footsteps of Nikola Tesla, arguably the most influential and underrated scientist and engineer in modern history. One of the inventions he created was a resonate transformer that converts low-frequency energy to high-frequency energy in hopes of one day having wireless energy for all. This sparked my interest in building a Tesla Coil.
At the genesis of the idea, I did not have any experience with electricity or engineering. Aside from a public school education, I knew nothing about the theories, methods, or applications behind Tesla Coil’s or electricity in general. All I knew is that they looked cool, I wanted to build one, and learning would be the vehicle to reach my goal. I did not know it at the beginning, but I would soon learn about the nature of electricity, AC/DC power, circuits, high and low-frequency energies, magnetic fields, transformers, woodworking, soldering, electrical engineering, creating and reading design plans/ blueprints, budget management, improvising materials, modifying existing structures to make a better system, and high voltage safety. This helped broaden my knowledge with electrical circuits and stimulated creativity that will in turn enhance my knowledge with the physical aspects of computers, which is valuable for the computer science major I am pursuing. It also will be of great help if I choose to double major in electrical engineering. This project was a fun yet challenging approach to learning about electrical engineering.
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... of a coil by the diameter of the secondary and have created a rule of thumb to follow when designing a Tesla Coil. A 3-4 inches coil is considered small and needs a 5:1 height to diameter ratio, 5-6 inches is medium size with a 4:1 aspect ratio, and 7+ inches is deemed a large coil with a ratio of 3:1. I decided on a 3.3-inch coil since I have a lower powered transformer and it would be more manageable. The next thing I had to research was winding the coil. I wanted between 800-1,000 turns of magnet wire within 16.5 inches to keep my aspect ratio in check. I decided on a 1280-foot spool of 26 AWG enameled copper wire that gave me approximately 904 turns. After winding the thin wire around a pipe and adding several coats of varnish, it was time to move onto the center of attention.
The top load of a Tesla Coil in the secondary LC tank circuit behaves as a capacitor.
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In 1882, Nikola came up with the idea for a brushless AC motor and made his first sketches of it rotating electromagnets. He began working for the continental Edison Company in France designing and making improvements to the electrical equipment. Then in June 1884, Tesla relocated to New York City where he was hired by Thomas Edison to work at his Edison Machine Works. He and Edison worked alongside one another making improvements to Edison’s inventions. After several months they parted ways due to a disagreement over a
Tesla Motors is known as a once engineer and man of science Nikola Tesla. The Tesla Roadster uses an AC motor descended directly from Tesla's original 1882 style. The Tesla Roadster, the company's initial vehicle, is that the initial production automobile to use lithium-ion battery cells and therefore the initial production heat unit with a variety larger than two hundred miles (320 km) per charge. Between 2008 and March 2012, Tesla oversubscribed over two,250 Roadsters in thirty one countries. Tesla stopped taking orders for the Roadster within the U.S. market in August 2011. Tesla undraped the Tesla Model S all-electric sedan on March twenty six, 2009. As of March 2013, Tesla utilized virtually three thousand regular workers.
Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) was an eccentric man that was many lifetimes ahead of his generation. He was a man that dreamed of giving the world an unlimited supply of wireless energy. His genius imagination allowed him to think outside the box and solve issues that others had thought were unsolvable. Nikola Tesla proposed his vision for a system powered by an alternating current generator to Thomas Edison and was shot down because Thomas Edison’s power structure had already been established using a direct current system. The two butt heads however Nikola Tesla was relentless. After being used and rejected by Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla picked himself and went toe to toe with the most prolific inventor. The stage for David vs Goliath was set. Through Nikola Tesla’s borderline obsession to solve the design for an alternating current motor and sacrificing his own opportunity to become a wealthy man, we now live in a very efficient world where everyone reaps the rewards of his genius, few know his name, and even fewer know what he did.
Nikola Tesla (Physicist, Inventor, Futurist) – Nikola Tesla was a Serbian American electrical engineer, inventor, physicist, futurist and mechanical engineer who was recognized for his assistance in the proposal of alternating current (AC) for the system of electricity. He was born on July 10, 1856 in Smiljan, Austrian Empire which is presently known as Croatia. His father was named Milutin Tesla and was an Orthodox Priest. While his mother, Duka Tesla, was good in making home mechanical appliances, craft tools and has the skill to memorize Serbian poems.
Tesla’s career as an inventor started when he was in his late twenties. He displayed his incredible understanding of electricity and physics when he created his first invention, the induction motor. The induction motor is a small, electric motor that has become a very useful machine. In fact, most household appliances run using Tesla’s induction motor (Vujovic 1). Score one for Tesla. Soon after he invented the induction motor, Tesla moved to America to try his luck at living the American dream. While in New York City, Tesla got the amazing opportunity to work for his hero, Thomas Edison. However, Tesla soon quit working for Edison due to some disagreements between the two inventors. And so with Edison and his men biting at Tesla’s heels, Nikola set out on his own to make a name for himself (Vujovic 1). Tesla soon became Edison’s greatest competitor. While tinkering in his lab with one of his inventions called the Tesla Coil, Tesla discovered that he could send and receive radio signals when his coils were tuned to the exact same frequency...
The major encounters that Tesla and Faraday faced included social, economic, intellectual barriers. Considering socially, Faraday was considered to be a “...high-priest of Nature, revealing the hidden forces...”(Shortland) People saw Faraday as the highest of his field, the one who was the closest to God in relation to understanding his creation. This also shows the social standard at this point in time, many going to church and understanding when someone references a religious point. Also, for social encounters, we have Tesla with his description f what the future will be like. This was not a reaction to the society that Tesla was around, but a prediction of what they were to become. Tesla, hoping to see that people would grow to become stronger
The Effect of the Number of Coils on an Electromagnet On Its Strength Aim: - To establish whether a variation in the number of coils will affect an electromagnet's strength. Scientific Knowledge -. The concept of electromagnets is fairly simple. An iron nail wrapped in a series of coils of insulated wire and then connected to a battery, will enable the nail to pick up paper clips. This is because the current emitted from the battery to the coils magnetizes the nail to the surface.
· B-phase transformer (EMTU-TT01) · Feedback electronic wattmeter · Multi-range moving-iron ammeter · Instrument voltage transformer THEORY AND INTRODUCTION ----------------------- Transformers are used all over the world to step-up and step-down electricity. The transformer is one of the most commonly used electrical devices. The reason the transformer is so popular is because they range in size from 240V to well over 240kV, stepping -up and stepping-down electricity all over the world.
A tower that shoots out lighting? The Tesla coil, a great invention that brought about a new way of living. In 1850-1900, there was not many people wanting new information, people were content with anything someone in power told them. If you were confident and you wanted to be famous all you had to do is say the world is flat and give some reasons to support your claim. Here are some reasons on why the tesla coil is a great invention: One, the Tesla coil was made by a brilliant inventor, who is still talked about even after 75 years of his passing. Secondly, the Tesla coil brought in a new wave of ideas and entertainment. Finally, the mechanics behind it all is amazing.
The MMXX is Tesla’s flagship model which will be the launching face of Tesla in the U.A.E. It will lead to the image as it will be the only entirely electric luxury sedan in the marketplace starting at $120,000. It will pose as a luxury car with great performance that simply has the added benefit of being a fully electric vehicle without sacrificing style and performance. And appealing to the elite market is the MStar model starting at a price of $400,000.
Ever since I was a child, I have had a great interest for the automotive industry. From car trivia to novel innovations, my innate passion for the automotive industry has always made me research the minutest detail of every vehicle that interested me. Since elementary school I would draw sketches of cars which incorporated technology which were unheard of at that time; novel devices such as electrochromic windshields, HUD displays, and wind turbines which would constantly re-generate electricity for the car. While growing up, my hobbies largely consisted of constructing countless Lego and Meccano sets, and repairing my mom’s 19 year-old car. In middle school, math and science were my favorite subjects: applying science and mathematics to solve real-world problems has fascinated me and I have also taken further steps to reach my goals. By the age of thirteen I devised a scaled model of a heliostat power plant, which successfully powered a light bulb. The mathematics beyond the focus points of parabolic dishes and thermodynamics was very advanced for my age, but I took up the challenge...
The phenomenon called electromagnetic induction was first noticed and investigated by Michael Faraday, in 1831. Electromagnetic induction is the production of an electromotive force (emf) in a conductor as a result of a changing magnetic field about the conductor and is a very important concept. Faraday discovered that, whenever the magnetic field about an electromagnet was made to grow and collapse by closing and opening the electric circuit of which it was a part, an electric current could be detected in a separate conductor nearby. Faraday also investigated the possibility that a current could be produced by a magnetic field being placed near a coiled wire. Just placing the magnet near the wire could not produce a current. Faraday discovered that a current could be produced in this situation only if the magnet had some velocity. The magnet could be moved in either a positive or negative direction but had to be in motion to produce any current in the wire. The current in the coil is called an induced current, because the current is brought about (or “induced”) by a changing magnetic field (Cutnell and Johnson 705). The induced current is sustained by an emf. Since a source of emf is always needed to produce a current, the coil itself behaves as if it were a source of emf. The emf is known as an induced emf. Thus, a changing magnetic field induces an emf in the coil, and the emf leads to an induced current (705). He also found that moving a conductor near a stationary permanent magnet caused a current to flow in the wire as long as it was moving as in the magnet and coiled wire set-up.
In 1831, using his "induction ring", Faraday made one of his greatest discoveries - electromagnetic induction: the "induction" or generation of electricity in a wire by means of the electromagnetic effect of a current in another wire. The induction ring was the first electric transformer. In a second series of experiments in September he discovered magneto-electric induction: the production of a steady electric current. To do this, Faraday attached two wires through a sliding contact to a copper disc. By rotating the disc between the poles of a horseshoe magnet he obtained a continuous direct current. This was the first generator. From his experiments came devices that led to the modern electric motor, generator and transformer.
Temperature has a large effect on particles. Heat makes particles energized causing them to spread out and bounce around. Inversely the cold causes particles to clump together and become denser. These changes greatly F magnetic the state of substances and can also influence the strength of magnetic fields. This is because it can alter the flow of electrons through the magnet.