The reason you would want to rectify it, according to the person I was talking to, was to have a high voltage direct current source. Thank you for your answer and source provided. Why do you want to rectify AC power from a Tesla Coil into DC power? This is accomplished by properly establish a ground plane. Transformers which are at the heart of a Tesla coil can be a variety of shapes and lengths.Įven antennas which are designed to detect and receive AC or Radio waves may have a physical length that is 1/4 of a wave length. Tesla coils only work with and only produce AC current. I think you misunderstood what is being stated.

I would really like to know if this is true, and would greatly appreciate of a real Electrical Engineer can give me their opinion on this. 'Since electromagnetic effects are not transmitted instantly from point to point in space.there is a time lag between changes in charge and current distribution on the dipole' which '.allows some of the energy to continue flowing outward even though conditions at the dipole may have changed to indicate an inward flow ofĮnergy.as if some of the electric and magnetic field has become detachedįrom the dipole or 'shaken off' by the oscillation.' Armstrong, 1973, to support what they said. They gave a quote from a book entitled 'The Electromangetic Interaction' by Robin L. In other words, they said that when a Tesla coil is at 1/4 wavelength, the HF AC it it produces will become rectified into DC. Someone said coils with a physical length of 1/4 wavelength will produce pulsed DC instead of high frequency AC. Does a 1/4 wavelength Tesla Coil produce DC instead of AC?

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