The Tesla Hairpin Circuit and its Violent Tank Capacitor Spark Gap Arc Discharge

[@jonathanperryman1217]

Very well done!😀

[@magncity1817]

Yes, I stumbled across…I liked your presentation and display. However, I think Tesla might say that this is a radiant energy circuit and not an RF circuit with nodes along a wave length.

[@braaitongs]

Where are the two capacitors?

[@InfinionExperiments]

They are in parallel with the spark gap and the 10,000V AC transformer. My setup used large 2.2nF strontium doorknob capacitors. The purpose is twofold, to create a large isolation impedance between the high voltage and the stout bars (the hairpin), and to create a tank circuit that rapidly and violently discharges across the spark gap, which also forces that current to flow through the hairpin (in a closed loop, of course), creating strong EMFs, or as magncity1817 put it, radiant energy. That form of conduction can allegedly light bulbs and generate sparks without the risk of electric shock.