Scientific Foundations of VENDOR.Max

What VENDOR discloses: the transmitting resonator of VENDOR.Max is designated in the project canon as a Tesla coil — in engineering terms, a Tesla transformer (Tesla coil), an air-cored resonant transformer.

Scientific territory: coupled resonant circuits; resonant transformers; transient and resonant dynamics of Tesla transformers.

What the literature establishes: a Tesla transformer is a two-coil resonant transformer — two air-coupled resonant circuits tuned to the same frequency; complete transfer of the stored primary state into the secondary occurs at discrete values of the coupling coefficient, over a transient of several oscillation cycles. “Tesla transformer” names a physical class; it does not determine a particular electrical behavior. Modern research continues to change topology, coupling, distributed geometry, operating regime and integration in order to obtain different electrical characteristics.

Representative peer-reviewed research, from analysis to the current frontier: transient dual-resonant analysis and optimal tuning^[4]; the class definition^[5]; semiconductor-controlled high-test-voltage implementations^[6]; spiral transformers in repetitive nanosecond pulse generators^[7]; planar arc-ignition transformers in industrial power supplies^[8]; segmented mutual-inductance modeling for extremely high turns ratios^[9]; a 500 kV generator designed in a deliberately off-resonance operating mode^[10]; and a miniaturized triple-resonant Tesla-transformer pulse generator published in 2026^[11].

Continue the search: Tesla transformer · air-cored resonant transformer · dual-resonant analysis · triple-resonant Tesla transformer · IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science.

What VENDOR discloses: VENDOR.Max is started by a brief impulse and then runs in a sustained oscillatory regime; the publicly disclosed architecture includes an excitation path with feedback associated with this operating regime.

Scientific territory: self-oscillation; feedback oscillators; regenerative circuits.

What the literature establishes: self-oscillation is an established class of dynamical systems — an active element and a feedback path maintain a durable oscillatory regime after a short initial action; the engineering lineage is documented from the 1914 patent and the 1915 IRE publication, and historians trace the continuous study of the class to the 1880s. Everyday members include the quartz timing references in watches, computers and communications equipment.

Representative scientific and engineering literature: the modern class review^[12]; the foundational patent^[13] and publication^[14]; the peer-reviewed history of the concept^[15].

Continue the search: self-oscillation · regenerative circuit · limit cycle · Physics Reports.

What VENDOR discloses: the architecture stores separated charge and releases it in fast, controlled events; this stage prepares the excitation applied to the resonant stage.

Scientific territory: pulsed-power systems and capacitive energy storage; pulse compression and pulse forming; spark-gap, threshold and nonlinear switching.

What the literature establishes: staged restructuring of an electrical process in time — storage, nonlinear switching, time compression — is a mature repetitive engineering practice; step-up transformation is routinely used as an intermediate tool inside such chains rather than as the output; the properties of the switching event itself (rise rate, duration, repetition rate, spectrum) are treated as design variables.

Representative research and engineering literature: the systematic monograph of the field^[16]; a repetitive megawatt-class module built as five stages of magnetic time compression with a step-up transformer placed between the stages^[17][18]; and recent experimental work extends the same territory to sub-nanosecond pulse formation — a compact spiral generator using a sharpening spark gap produced current pulses up to 0.8 kA with rise times of ≤300 ps^[19].

Continue the search: pulsed power engineering · magnetic pulse compression · pulse forming network · spark gap switching.

What VENDOR discloses: the pickup is galvanically separated from the resonant structures that excite it.

Scientific territory: coupled resonators; resonant inductive coupling; loaded-resonator dynamics; compensation networks; load-independent output regimes; voltage and current transformation in coupled resonant structures; resonant energy transfer and extraction under load.

What the literature establishes: strong coupling of high-Q resonant states is analyzed theoretically; transfer between physically separated resonators is an experimental result; the limits of resonant coupling — coupling coefficient, stray field, efficiency versus distance — are the subject of critical review. Beyond coupling itself, a separate engineering literature addresses how useful loaded resonant states are formed and maintained: compensation networks can bring multiple loops into simultaneous resonance, and selected operating regimes can make output voltage or current largely independent of load within a defined range. Here, “load-independent” refers to a selected output quantity; it does not mean that the load has no effect on the internal resonant state. For any particular system, the transfer rate and port voltage established under load remain system-specific measurement questions and cannot be transferred from the bibliography.

Representative peer-reviewed research: the theory of strongly coupled resonant states^[20]; the direct experimental demonstration^[21]; the critical review of limits^[22]; a compensation network bringing three loops into simultaneous resonance^[23]; and load-independent constant-voltage or constant-current output obtained through operating-frequency selection^[24].

Continue the search: resonant inductive coupling · coupled resonators mode splitting · compensation network · load-independent output · wireless power transfer critical review.

What VENDOR discloses: downstream of the pickup stand rectification, a DC link and a regulated output stage; what matches ordinary infrastructure equipment there is the output interface as a class, not the architecture and not the source.

Scientific territory: high-frequency rectification; resonant power conversion.

What the literature establishes: high-frequency rectification and resonant conversion form a subject-level engineering discipline with systematic methods of analysis and design, deployed from consumer power supplies to telecom −48 V rectifier plants.

Representative engineering literature: the standard monograph of the discipline^[25].

Continue the search: resonant power converters · high-frequency rectifiers · switch-mode power supply design.