Reactive Wireless One Wire Tesla Coil

Good day, folks. In this video, I demonstrate how I use my variac, tuned with a reactive capacitor, to limit the active or real power input to around 40 mA. I show this measurement in other videos. The one-wire system feeds a large coax coil made with LMR-400, Taking advantage of the poynting vector field with an inductance of 170 µH, and drives it at high frequency and high voltage using reactive displacement current transduction. In this setup, the Tesla coil secondary is wirelessly energized by the one-wire system. When I connect a 110-volt AC lamp to the Tesla coil secondary output, the lamp becomes extremely bright, overheats, and starts to smell burnt. This indicates that significantly more power and voltage are being supplied to the lamp than it can handle (5 watts), while the input remains hard limited by the reactive variac stage driven by a small 110-volt inverter.

We are recycling most of our small active power input and achieving significant amplification of reactive power at resonance. Reactive power at resonance is very real, as demonstrated when I received a shock that nearly knocked me out. I included this in the video to highlight the potential risks and dangers of experimenting with reactive resonant power, even with very small input trigger power, as the accumulations can be intense and dangerous. This is further evidenced by the strong heat and high brightness of the lamp.

There is no return path in this one-wire system; even the driver stage operates with a single wire and no return. This demonstrates how reactive power can be transduced into more real work than the input without violating the laws of physics, based on well-understood principles. The shock, the over-bright light, and the overheating lamp indicate a clear amplification of energy at resonance, as long as we maintain the small reactive trigger input current, with most of it recycling back into the inverter's capacitors.