Tesla Coil Wireless Power Transmission

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Tesla thought he could transmit electrical power to any location on the planet, without wires. But would it really have worked?
This video shows two of Tesla's most interesting innovations and the original purpose of what we now call the "Tesla coil": transmitting and receiving power wirelessly through resonant inductive coupling and resonant capacitive coupling. Many people are already familiar with resonant inductive coupling in the form of wireless smartphone chargers, smart cards, implanted medical devices, and more. Resonant capacitive coupling is seen less often in practice, due to safety hazards from the high voltages usually required for it to be effective, but it is no more difficult to understand than resonant inductive coupling.
Tesla's prototype of his World Wireless System, Wardenclyffe Tower, was never completed and we know now that Tesla's concept was based on flawed theories and would not have worked. However, even though Tesla's original goal was a failure, the technologies and scientific understanding that came along the way are extremely beneficial and form the basis of many modern technologies. This is a core part of scientific and engineering research. Some of the best innovations can actually come from spin-offs of failures. Failure is a natural part of the process. This is how real progress is made.
This video does not claim to demonstrate "free energy" or any other kinds of ridiculous, misleading pseudoscience. This channel only shows content that is 100% real.
Working with Tesla coils is dangerous! Do not try this yourself unless you are very experienced with Tesla coils and high voltage electricity!
Music by Cheel

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  • @exploreinglife4240
    @exploreinglife42402 жыл бұрын

    I feel like you just proved Tesla‘s experiment might’ve worked on a large scale. You clearly demonstrated even your body transmitting the electricity to the other coil without any danger.

  • @Rabmcm32

    @Rabmcm32

    29 күн бұрын

    So why wasn’t / isn’t it used commercially? As I understand it vested interests did not allow Tesla to make a commercial success of his technology. There is a claim efficiencies are bad due to impedance?

  • @unrealcrafter2671

    @unrealcrafter2671

    16 күн бұрын

    Here is the thing. They are inefficient AF. The high voltage and high frequency means most of the power is just wasted through capacitive coupling.

  • @markohi2756
    @markohi27562 жыл бұрын

    Hey Nick! Your videos are awesome, informative, engaging and entertaining. You are on to something here. Real talent and expertise. 700 followers to boot. I enjoy watching, but I just read the comments thread and you are reaching real people and your responses are genuine. Keep it up!

  • @CoilLabs

    @CoilLabs

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you, I really appreciate that!

  • @vizjournalist
    @vizjournalist3 жыл бұрын

    Yes! I always look forward to watching your videos man. Nice work as always.

  • @Pikkifu
    @Pikkifu3 жыл бұрын

    Nick! This video is sick, thanks for teaching me!

  • @NerdlabsSci
    @NerdlabsSci3 жыл бұрын

    awesome nick!

  • @pigstation9127
    @pigstation91273 жыл бұрын

    I learned A LOT

  • @williamlester4
    @williamlester47 ай бұрын

    Great video! You put a lot of work into this! Thanks for keeping it somewhat understandable!

  • @akosv96
    @akosv967 ай бұрын

    Amazing explanation and a huge thanks for going deeper into these less known effects. I would be very interested if a very good ground could enable another coil to get pretty far from the original source. Of course if it is perfectly tuned. I am not sure though if it had anything to do with the upper atmosphere as so many people claim. Please note that the old newspaper pictures in the articles are journalistic clickbait if I may call it that lol. Or at least a mistake since people only saw the cool sparks it makes but that was only the way Tesla advertised his cool stuff. Even today people saw the pictures and videos today how Tesla coils make sparks so everyone assumes that's the intended use haha. Pretty far from it in fact. You are absolutely correct that this radio worked as a "ground radio". Even the patent explains that the media for transmission is the earth ground not the air and says the less is put into the air the better. That's why the huge ball at the top so it does not discharge no matter how high the voltage is. Unlike our current radios which try to create a resonant antenna that is floating from ground. Very different! Imagine if Tesla made that huge tower the who ground would be "part of" the circuit so any user with his/ger pegs on the ground is basically zero keters from the source of the energy as it is all the capacitor. In that sense yes the ionosphere kinda matters but only because it's a huge capacitor.

  • @zeljkolukac4170

    @zeljkolukac4170

    3 ай бұрын

    Right, sparks are for fun but wasting energy by destroying potential and make equlibrium. Low coupling, capacitive transmission are real deal and transmission line and third coil are missing. Also standing wawes phase shift and scallar (no magnetic component) also missing. One transmitting oscillaror and many surrounding resonant coils = possible overunity. None, including me, do not really know what is magnified with magnified amplifier. There are lot of playing with Tesla technology. Cheers!

  • @OkkiMoeljadi
    @OkkiMoeljadi3 жыл бұрын

    Great Tesla Coil video!

  • @captain_joni
    @captain_joni3 жыл бұрын

    Lov it. Nice video

  • @passtranelectronics
    @passtranelectronics3 жыл бұрын

    excelente explicación amigo saludos amigo

  • @icebluscorpion
    @icebluscorpion8 ай бұрын

    Your channel is underrated. Finally! A KZreadr that really understands how Tesla coils work! 😎👍

  • @pembroke6740
    @pembroke67403 жыл бұрын

    just found your channel a love you vids

  • @NerdlabsSci
    @NerdlabsSci3 жыл бұрын

    finally a new video

  • @ElectricMonkeyBrain
    @ElectricMonkeyBrain11 ай бұрын

    well done

  • @_jakow
    @_jakow3 жыл бұрын

    Your videos are grear keep on good work it will pay of💪💪😁

  • @Teslaundmehr
    @Teslaundmehr3 жыл бұрын

    pretty nice!! ;)

  • @Purple431
    @Purple4313 жыл бұрын

    I love high voltage, noble gases discharges, ⚡

  • @overunityinventor
    @overunityinventor Жыл бұрын

    If u put 400 such receivers around the transmitting coil, all loads will consume 400 watts in total and the transmitting coil will still consume 388 watts only.

  • @joeysavoy4591
    @joeysavoy45916 күн бұрын

    Loved the video. Quite the statement to say it couldn't work vs it needs some work, teehee 💪🏽

  • @Texas_bikes66
    @Texas_bikes663 жыл бұрын

    Awsome

  • @vdekjEE
    @vdekjEE3 жыл бұрын

    That’s really cool! If you dump enough power into it and move the other secondary closer and turn it correctly, you can get breakout on it too!

  • @CoilLabs

    @CoilLabs

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yeah I tried that off camera, but never got it to happen, even with the coils closer together. Definitely need more power than that 833A tube and circuit can handle. My grid leak resistor gets crazy hot too, I realized while doing this. Never ran the coil for 5+ minutes at a time before this.

  • @vdekjEE

    @vdekjEE

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@CoilLabs water resistor grid leak works, although it does do electrolysis. When do you plan to get your other tube up-and-running in this coil?

  • @CoilLabs

    @CoilLabs

    3 жыл бұрын

    I need to build up some more robust infrastructure to run that other tube properly and truly utilize it's potential. Probably do a more serious build around that a bit later.

  • @vdekjEE

    @vdekjEE

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@CoilLabs oh yeah plus you need to film and edit a bunch, actually do a good job, and probably make it look good and be on a base. Let's just say I do none of those things :)

  • @firefox1136

    @firefox1136

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@CoilLabs You could use a GU-81 pentode or a GU-5B triode, they are mutch more powerfull tubes.

  • @richardbroadnax4127
    @richardbroadnax4127 Жыл бұрын

    Very interesting I appreciate the experiment and set up however I have a question as a relates to the impossibility of being able to use wireless transmission globally Oran similarly large scales. Are there or were there geological in Edmonds fear conditions in the distant past that could have been more constant and stable? Further are there any geographical areas on a smaller scale that would have a more constant range of of resonance for safe electrical transmission?

  • @muhammad52farouk43
    @muhammad52farouk432 жыл бұрын

    Daym...can anyone tell me why this guy doesn't have million subs?

  • @shodanxx
    @shodanxx3 жыл бұрын

    Ok, practical use question. If I had a a drone flying 20 feet of the ground, maintaining position inside a 2 meter cubic meter space. And for the transmitted I have a high gain antenna able to very accurately remained pointed at the drone. Is it possible to transmit enough energy to the drone to both power it in flight and have surplus energy to also charge the battery at a reasonable rate ? Say, 100 watts on the receiver end, now more than 100 gram for the energy receiver on the drone and functionnal even if the target moves around. Is that feasible ? I want a drone that can autonomously fly around for 20 minutes, then hover at a certain location for 20 minutes and get recharged.

  • @CoilLabs

    @CoilLabs

    3 жыл бұрын

    You're talking about a very different kind of wireless power transmission than what I show here. The two effects I show here are both "near-field" effects using either magnetic fields or electric fields. The strength of these fields diminishes very quickly with distance. What you're talking about is a "far-field" effect, using electromagnetic radiation, presumably in the radio frequency range. I haven't researched it extensively, but from what I've seen, transmitting appreciable amounts of power over RF is very difficult even with high gain directional antennas. Much larger antennas than you could carry on a personal drone, for certain. A more practical method for something like this that people are researching is using lasers, but 100 watts continuous is far beyond what any commonly available lasers can do. Now instead, if you were to use resonant inductive coupling, where the drone carries a large coil and has capacitors to form a tuned LC circuit at the resonant frequency of the transmitter, and with a much more powerful transmitter than I have here, then yes it could be possible. 100 watts is pretty high, but it could be possible. Hard for me to comment on position control tolerance for the recharging zone and other requirements specifically. There are so many variables. Sounds like a really cool experiment, though!

  • @Man11235
    @Man112352 жыл бұрын

    Could you make the resonance frequency the same as earths to transfer energy more easily on large scales? Use the magnetic field to help spread the energy through the air?

  • @unrealcrafter2671

    @unrealcrafter2671

    16 күн бұрын

    To my knowledge the earth does not have a single resonant frequency that can be harnessed.

  • @ethansprojects7399
    @ethansprojects7399 Жыл бұрын

    Are your grounds directly connected or connected or just conected to the ground of your shop?

  • @CoilLabs

    @CoilLabs

    Жыл бұрын

    They are not directly connected. The base of the secondary of each coil is connected to it's own piece of sheet metal laying on the concrete floor as a kind of "counterpoise". So it's just capacitive coupling into the concrete floor / ground.

  • @ethansprojects7399

    @ethansprojects7399

    Жыл бұрын

    @@CoilLabs thank you, I’ll have to do some more experimenting. I got it to work with the bottom of the secondary’s both connected but the problem I’ve had with connecting them with sheet metal is it starts to burn and etch Lichtenberg figures in the concrete towards the other coil.

  • @davidmichel1350
    @davidmichel13503 ай бұрын

    How can we make a longer range?

  • @paulsmeltzer4414
    @paulsmeltzer44142 жыл бұрын

    Can you make both secondaries discharge lighting at the same time?

  • @CoilLabs

    @CoilLabs

    2 жыл бұрын

    If I moved them closer to increase the coupling and put breakout points on both of them, then probably yes. I'm running them without breakout points here because I don't want the energy getting dissipated into a spark.

  • @Methus3lah
    @Methus3lah2 жыл бұрын

    I like your funny words, magic man

  • @MASSExpedition
    @MASSExpedition2 жыл бұрын

    Great experiment & content. Have you expanded this at all? Would be cool to have a remote control car hooked up and see how range could be tested. I also imagine the size produces diminishing returns on that scale (i.e. do you think a larger coil/wheel/vehicle could produce greater range? or vice versa?) 380:1 is definitely not optimal, but I'm curious how much this could be improved. Keep up the good work.

  • @CoilLabs

    @CoilLabs

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you! Larger scale of the coils would probably help, but it's an effort of diminishing return. Capacitive coupling is just not an effective strategy for any sort of longer distance. At this time, I haven't done much more, but I'm interested in exploring related concepts, like Zenneck surface waves. There's definitely some new technologies that could potentially come out of further research into that topic. Unfortunately, there's also a lot of pseudoscience and conspiracy theories revolving around this topic, so there's a need for more scientific perspective on a lot of this stuff.

  • @thomassuit7450

    @thomassuit7450

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@CoilLabs The thing people forget is the crazy amount of power Tesla used for his experiments. Didn't he damage one of the drive shafts on one of the generators at a hydro plant?

  • @CoilLabs

    @CoilLabs

    2 жыл бұрын

    I know Tesla designed generators that were installed at the Niagara falls power station, but I'm not familiar with any particular incidents though. Could be possible, but I'm not familiar.

  • @winstonsmith430
    @winstonsmith4303 жыл бұрын

    I am interested in why you use a variac to control the output power? It must have to do with stepping up the output voltage? Also are you familiar that there is a company based in Texas that is actually doing actual full-scale testing on Tesla's original wireless power delivery technology? It should only take a simple Google search but if you can't find it please reply to let me know and I will find the source for you.

  • @firefox1136

    @firefox1136

    3 жыл бұрын

    His tube overheats at 120v input power. That is why he uses the variac to control the voltage.

  • @CoilLabs

    @CoilLabs

    3 жыл бұрын

    As Firefox stated, yes the reason for the variac is simply to limit the input power to my VTTC, because the tube I'm using here cannot handle running this coil at full power without red-plating. I was not familiar with this Viziv Technologies company nor their work on wireless power, before you mentioned it here, no. It seems that their technology utilizes a phenomenon known as Zenneck surface waves, something I was also not familiar with, before looking this company up. From the little bit I've learned so far, this is somewhat related, but actually different than Tesla's wireless power concept. This concept claims to be able to overcome some of the limitations of Tesla's concept (i.e., resonant coupling), some of which you can see in my video. Viziv doesn't seem to provide a lot of concrete technical details on how their system is supposed to work, which is a little suspect to me, but there also seems to be some recent peer reviewed research from other groups, experimentally demonstrating that Zenneck wave based wireless power transmission is feasible, at least on small scales. Regardless, this seems like a fascinating topic and something I am definitely going to keep an eye on. Thank you for mentioning this!

  • @winstonsmith430

    @winstonsmith430

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@CoilLabs awesome, I don't usually get replied to by content makers so that's also awesome. I'm glad that I could show you something that you'll probably make a video on later. Great interaction I appreciate it.

  • @mileswatkins2162
    @mileswatkins21622 жыл бұрын

    I like the channel

  • @phumgwatenagala6606
    @phumgwatenagala66062 жыл бұрын

    Is there any possibility of the electricity arching across both Tesla coils via your body? When you’re standing between them with your arms out toward each at 5:58 ? Could the voltage go through you?

  • @CoilLabs

    @CoilLabs

    2 жыл бұрын

    Even if it's not arcing, there is current already going through me and there is a very non-zero voltage difference across my body. My body is acting like the dielectric inside a capacitor, when I'm between the two coils. The current is so low though that it's not dangerous. If I put my hands too close, as you saw, then yes it arcs over and shocks me. Most of that current is just going to want to go straight to ground, through me, though. Going to the other coil is a higher impedance path than going through my legs to ground. If I was able to insulate myself from the ground better, I might be able to get it to arc through me between the two coils, but I'm not inclined to try that with my skin, lol. Rather do that in a Faraday suit.

  • @TheTwistedTraceur
    @TheTwistedTraceurКүн бұрын

    so lets say i make that second repeater coil smaller in size and permanently attached to the lamp. do we not get our desired effect then?

  • @richardcup66
    @richardcup66 Жыл бұрын

    Where can I get these specs or such so I can replicate this demonstration!?

  • @CoilLabs

    @CoilLabs

    Жыл бұрын

    The driver side of this coil is essentially the same as Steve Ward's VTTC5 (www.stevehv.4hv.org/VTTC5.htm), which is driven by an 833A vacuum tube. The receiver coil is a nearly identical coil and toroid. The step-down LC circuit at the base of the receiver was total trial and error, just trying to match the resonant frequency of the coil.

  • @ronaldfain4541
    @ronaldfain45418 ай бұрын

    Nikola Tesla was able to send wireless power two miles away to light to incandescent bulbs

  • @gregoryfrech2310
    @gregoryfrech23106 күн бұрын

    As I understand it, the earth frequency creates a quarter wavelength of about 8.4 inches. In waveguide terms this is roughly the same size as some of the channels in the pyramids. This would yield a useful frequency of 440Hz (math by Alexa). There is speculation that the pyramids were power manipulators of sorts. It is why Tesla was very interested in them. I am not ready to dismiss the concept of his patent number 645576 based on this mini-proof-of-concept model since wavelength size does vary with frequency (and then there is amplitude as well). Am guessing the video used 60Hz power which is not 440Hz. It is very controversial and I don't think the concept has been investigated enough.

  • @MasterIvo
    @MasterIvo Жыл бұрын

    interesting demonstration. But standing in between, could that not also detune the coils, due to their low capacity? Personally I find dielectric coupling very interesting as it uses displacement currents. For me it is not only conducted through the air, but even more so though the earth ground. Why? because displacement currents are conducted through dielectric mediums. And earth has a higher K value than air. This is also what Tesla intended to do at wardenclyfe. And he tried increasing the dielectric induction into the earth by adding an extra coil, and capacitor to the secondary. making it a series (extra coil and cap) and parallel (secondary and cap) resonant system.

  • @CoilLabs

    @CoilLabs

    Жыл бұрын

    It probably does detune the coils a bit, yes, but it seems not significantly enough to affect the result in this particular experiment. And yes, there are most likely displacement currents through the ground, from the grounded side of the coils, as well. It has to complete the "circuit" somehow. There's definitely more research to be done and things to learn here. It's unfortunate how much pseudoscience and conspiracy theories pollute the discussion around these topics though and get in the way of real science. Hopefully more people are doing proper research on this stuff.

  • @tanner1985

    @tanner1985

    3 ай бұрын

    @@CoilLabs the most important thing that probably get overlooked, is that the more higher voltage you get on your coil, the greater is the efficiency of transmission. A proper device is at least three orders of magnitude higher voltage than your setup in this video. Are you sure that "we know today that the system envisioned by Tesla wouldn't work"?

  • @richardcup66
    @richardcup66 Жыл бұрын

    Yes good

  • @user-vo5gb7tt7w
    @user-vo5gb7tt7w5 ай бұрын

    Reverse the current draw in

  • @knowledge_power1215
    @knowledge_power12154 ай бұрын

    Try using bifilar coil

  • @VitalisCarbone
    @VitalisCarbone3 жыл бұрын

    Very cool, and informational, video. Reminds me of the story about electromagnetic harvesters that operates on the same principal. Keep the great videos coming.

  • @cristianbianchi6155
    @cristianbianchi6155 Жыл бұрын

    If you don't sintonize correctly the radio It don't work , Tesla coil Is the same Test a variation with bifilar coil, It work Better😉

  • @cynthiacaron704
    @cynthiacaron704 Жыл бұрын

    Why can't I SEE the video? I can hear it though.

  • @_just_browsing_
    @_just_browsing_2 жыл бұрын

    I just want to be your friend. You are smart and funny. 😂

  • @CoilLabs

    @CoilLabs

    2 жыл бұрын

    This has got to be the most wholesome KZread comment I have ever gotten. Thank you!

  • @_just_browsing_

    @_just_browsing_

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@CoilLabs That makes me happy. 😊

  • @FioBrio
    @FioBrio2 жыл бұрын

    6:00 dancing time

  • @FioBrio

    @FioBrio

    2 жыл бұрын

    By the way I am from Croatia, just like Nikola Tesla

  • @jeremie9872
    @jeremie98723 жыл бұрын

    6:09 ! Yep ! xD

  • @RBimas37
    @RBimas372 жыл бұрын

    Can't you just detect the current schuman resonance with a sensor and just adjust your devices to use whatever frequency you need in order to use this in long distances?

  • @CoilLabs

    @CoilLabs

    2 жыл бұрын

    I'm not super familiar with the details of Schuman Resonance, but those frequencies are in the 10s of Hz range, right? That's an incredibly low frequency in terms of resonant transformers, like Tesla coils. Even very large coils are still 10s to 100s of kHz. 10 Hz is practically impossible to achieve with a traditional Tesla coil, on a human scale. You would need a completely different technology. Something similar to this effect is what I suspect Tesla was hoping for in his experiments though, but from the little bit I've read about it, what we call Schuman Resonance today wasn't well studied or understood until well after Tesla's death, so it wasn't an existing concept that he or anyone else at the time could have leveraged in his experiments. Even if it was, however, my understanding is it still wouldn't be capable of achieve what he envisioned. Primarily due to the fact that the energy spreads out large areas and you would need to transmit wildly, impractically large amounts of power to have anywhere close to a "useful" energy density at a distant location. This problem of scale is part of where Tesla was wrong in thinking worldwide wireless power was feasible.

  • @RBimas37

    @RBimas37

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@CoilLabs Thanks for the food for thought! Do you in any case know what patent # is being talked about here? : "Tesla's patent attorney conducted a three day deposition in conjunction with a patent he filed on wireless energy transmission" - It's from a forum thread that's archived and I'm unable to contact the original poster... Help, please :D

  • @CoilLabs

    @CoilLabs

    2 жыл бұрын

    You're welcome! And no, I don't know anything about Tesla's specific patents. I'm afraid I can't help you there.

  • @RBimas37

    @RBimas37

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@CoilLabs Oh, my bad, I just kinda assumed you make these devices following a patent :D

  • @muhammadsultanhamim9481
    @muhammadsultanhamim94812 жыл бұрын

    If the two Tesla Tesla coils don't use a capacitor, the powered Tesla coil can still send electricity to the unpowered Tesla coil?

  • @CoilLabs

    @CoilLabs

    2 жыл бұрын

    Don't use which capacitor? Not sure I understand what you're asking.

  • @runswithdeer2385
    @runswithdeer23852 жыл бұрын

    this energy was used years ago the elite have it under raps but time is up COSMIC ENERGY

  • @peter360adventures9
    @peter360adventures9 Жыл бұрын

    Westinghouse didn't like the idea of free energy and that's why he cut his funding. Should tell the story as it is. Not for

  • @virenkaushik970
    @virenkaushik9709 ай бұрын

    You look a bit scary

  • @hermestrismegistus9603
    @hermestrismegistus96032 жыл бұрын

    This should have 1.7m views not 1.7k. DoDdy only approves of the male side of Tesla's system. My pulsed-DC coil is cool but its a basic video it shouldnt have more views than this. YT is no longer viable for science imho its a corporate gangbang now.

  • @CoilLabs

    @CoilLabs

    2 жыл бұрын

    I appreciate that! There's an unfortunate amount of pseudoscience and conspiracy theories around this topic. A lot of ridiculous claims being made by people who do not apply proper scientific methods. I completely agree that Tesla was disrespected by both his peers and historians and that his research into this topic being shut down was a stupid knee-jerk reaction out of unfounded fear from non-experts. There's more to be learned here, a lot of really interesting research still to be done, and possibly some really cool new technologies to be developed, but it's really frustrating to see how much this space is polluted by pseudoscience.

  • @Jbond7777
    @Jbond77772 жыл бұрын

    Telluride wave used on Tesla systems. Wave traveling through ground. Not hertzion or sky wave. LMD-Longitudinal Magneto Dielectric mode. Public system never completed. The quick fast wrong opion that Tesla was wrong is why I get annoyed. If you can't figure out why it works people are quick to say it doesn't work. Then they make something not patented by Tesla and try to do it with that ish. Dislike button is now gone so I guess I have to put comments on all Tesla 🗑 talkers. 🤨. Please ask KZread to enable dislikes again. Tks.

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