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Old 02-28-2011, 09:38 PM   #5 (permalink)
Ryland
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Originally Posted by byte312 View Post
The Tesla switch was a circuit that always charged one battery through a motor with two batteries supplying a higher voltage in series. After a short time, the batteries were switched with vacume tubes so that two batteries always charged a third one. The energy was pasted back and forth through the motor. It worked but it required an extra battery which sometimes burst into flames.
What is your source for this? Because this does not work without ending up with a net loss so why even bother? you can not create energy and batteries just store energy.
Also if a motor is 80% efficient it doesn't matter if it's 150 pounds or 5 pounds it's still 80% efficient.
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