Me ya sa Westinghouse ya gaya wa Tesla cewa zai yi mu'amala da 'yan banki? Bisa ga tambayar da ta gabata, ka rubuta mahallin da ke ɗauke da amsar. Zai iya zama jumla 1 - 20. Abubuwan da ke ciki:
Tsakiyar shekarun 1890s ta ga babban kamfanin General Electric, wanda mai kudi J. P. Morgan ya goyi bayan sa, ya shiga cikin yunƙurin karɓar iko da yaƙe-yaƙe na haƙƙin mallaka tare da Westinghouse Electric. Kodayake an sanya hannu kan yarjejeniyar raba takaddama tsakanin kamfanonin biyu a 1896 Westinghouse har yanzu yana da tsabar kudi daga yakin basasa. Don tabbatar da ƙarin lamuni, Westinghouse ya tilasta sake duba haƙƙin mallaka na AC na Tesla, wanda bankuna suka ɗauki nauyin kuɗi a kan kamfanin (a wannan lokacin Westinghouse ya biya kimanin $ 200,000 a lasisi da lasisi ga Tesla, Brown, da Peck). A shekara ta 1897, Westinghouse ya bayyana wa Tesla matsalolin kudi a cikin sharuddan, yana cewa idan abubuwa suka ci gaba kamar yadda suke, ba zai sake sarrafa Westinghouse Electric ba kuma Tesla zai yi "ma'amala da masu banki" don kokarin tattara haraji na gaba. Westinghouse ya shawo kan Tesla ya saki kamfaninsa daga yarjejeniyar lasisi game da lasisin lasisin AC na Tesla a musayar Westinghouse Electric da ke siyan lasisin don biyan kuɗi na $ 216,000; wannan ya ba Westinghouse hutu daga abin da, saboda saurin karuwar halin yanzu a cikin shahara, ya zama kyauta mai karimci $ 2.50 a kowace AC horsepower.