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Old 10-10-2007, 04:06 AM
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Measuring Radiant Energy

I was Thinking about how to measure this kind of energy to be able to tune our system to produce more of it or make our batteries absorb more.

I did an experiment lately and it surprized me bit. While I was working with my simple buck boost dc/dc converter (a simple charge pump) I noticed that if I connect a lamp at the end of the output diode while touching the other terminal of the lamp tightly, It would light!! This is in a situation which I have NO connection to the ground! Why should it light? I concluded that this is a different form of electricity which is induced to the lamp through my body. Normal current with not definitey behave like that. I also did not feel anything.

I used many inductors but only one of them behaved that way.

I am certainly sure we have to set some parameters correctly to maximize the Radiant output.

What do you think?
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