CAN YOU HELP?

JULY 14, 2017

As I sit typing, Lab-Tesla is shut down and completely without power unless you gather up dry desert brush and kindle a fire.

Over the past 10 years the replacement cost of the basic consumable equipment used by Lab-Tesla has dropped across the board for everything, with one exception: high-energy storage batteries. Everything else is cheaper in real dollars because most equipment we replace was used when we got it, and surplus prices for the stuff we destroy have dropped. I can buy brand new plastic film self-healing capacitors for less than I paid for a well used lab capacitor 15 years ago. A brand new digital function generator on Ebay is cheaper than a decent used generator with the same plate ratings was 15 years ago.

My name is Richard T. Quick II, and I am the owner/director of Lab-Tesla. I am just Richard Quick on Facebook and Youtube, and if you find me there you will see Lab-Tesla graphics.. People ask me about the website cover photo, I took that photo with my Nikon Coolpix standing right outside the lab door. BTW, there are several notorius Richard Quicks out there... I am not the US Olympic Team swimming coach Richard Quick, and I am not the criminally insane psychiatrist Dr. Richard Quick MD... If you google me try "Richard Quick Tesla" and you will see that the Internet recognizes a body of work published under my name and that work is associated with Dr. Nikola Tesla.

Today I am adding to that body of work. With the building of this website, I have disclosed proprietary research results directly into the public domain. The goal of the Lab-Tesla project is educational, it will never make a profit because I am a researcher, not a salesperson. The education I have obtained is worth far more than money to me personally.

Last year I came down off the mountain with a head full of wonderful ideas, a lab that was completely worked into ruin, and no money in my pocket. I have been washing dishes for $8.00 an hour to replace the destroyed lab equipment, and I have designed, and purchased, the new modular power supply that I have documented here under Projects/Power. I have money in the bank, earned over sinks full of hot water, to pay for the new 5000 watt pure sine wave inverter, 600+ watts of solar panels... But the battery prices floored me. The battery bank required starts out at $5000, the one pictured above sells for about $12K.

I really have no choice, I can wash dishes for another year... With the lab closed all this time... Or I can ask the public for help.

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