Tesla Attempt

[Bodkins]

mircowave diodes are good for understanding the direction of the movement
YouTube - Singlewire lightbulb Singlewire charging

[rave154]

for Bod

Thanks for the video Bod, more chowder for me to munch on mentally speaking........however..... when i said....the "bulb" is lit and the "bulb" is brighter.....i wasnt talking about a CFL......im tlking about a standard 12V light bulb...ya know..the kind you put in a torch or whatever

[rave154]

hi folks, see attatched circuit,

basically, 2 spark gaps, one to each leg of the 12v light bulb,

lights to about 75% brightness... then i replaced that bulb with a 240V 60 watt standard light bulb ( not a CFL )....get a teeny lil greeny bluey purply plasma like discharge at the corners of the filament, i didnt see it at first its so small, only when i looked closer...

[rave154]

video

heres the video of the 240V bulb..

YouTube - Movie33

[Inquorate]

Tesla on the ether

i think this is the thread that i was going to post my summary of user's posts and my thoughts on the ether.

however, i've just come across this link by the man himself, nikola tesla, who is much more affluent than I.

Experiments with Alternate Currents of Very High Frequency and Their Application to Methods of Artificial Illumination

recommended reading, and nice to know i was / am on the right track.

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[rave154]

for INQ & co

Hi, guys, been a while, i got waylayed by an abscess, could hardly walk or stand !


INQ, re- your purple flasher...see attatched circuit...

using the end of the coil that has the diode in opposition to the HV ( the lower diode in ther picture )...

when i runt he circuit for maybe a second, if i hold one leg of the neon to the coil it glows dimmly for about 15 seconds.....and then.....once the glow has gone.....if i then touch both legs of the neon to both ends of the coil...i get the purple flash you described...sometimes more than one...sometimes a purple flash followed by an ornage one..

i just videod it..but it just doesnt sdhow it up very well..

thoughts?

David. D

[rave154]

p.s

adding,

the persistant orange glow only happen when i touch the leg of the neon that i am NOT holding with the pliers....to the coil end......if i touvh the leg of ther neon that i am holding with the pliers to the coil end....no glow.

i just tried it all using the beginning of the coil, same results as using the ends of the coil, the purple flash is very distinctive, seems to go the whole length of the electrodes too.

[Shamus]

Hearing about the purple flash makes me think about "Secrets of Cold War Technology" and the section where Tesla could produce different colors with his apparatus depending on the frequency (sorry, don't remember off the top of my head where it was). Makes me wonder if that's what's happening here.

I wonder--does neon have more than one ionization level? Wikipedia is silent on the issue. Though this little tidbit is quite interesting:

Once lit, a neon lamp has a negative resistance characteristic: increasing the current through the device increases the number of ions, thereby decreasing the resistance of the lamp and allowing even more current.

[rave154]

hmmmm

shamus, thanks for the titbit, veryyyyyy interesting....


hmm....im wondering now... if you think about it....im making the contact between the two legs of the neon + the two ends of the coil by hand... so obviously.sometimes...this leg will touch first THEN the other leg and vice versa...and other combo's..... any thoughts on how to control that process to study the different effects of different switching combo''s?


hmmm..........very ponderable.

[rave154]

for INQ

INQ,

had an idea,

using your mechanical switch, connected to my 555->ignition coil circuit--> bi-filar coil... could you not link up the the connections of the legs of the neon so that your mech-switch connects them both at the same time to the two ends of the bifilar over & over at whatever frequency your disk is rotating, that way you could study if frequency has any effect on the colour/ shape of the purple discharge inside the neon?

as im doing it the moment (by hand so to speak ) im running the circuit for a second or so, then turning it off ( for safety more than anything ), then flicking the neon-legs past the two ends of the coils to get the flash. I think you could have the same thing but your mech-switch could do the connecting/unconnecting over & over at whatever frequency you wanted determined by the speed of your disk rotation.

I'd love to see that in action, plus other applications of your mech-switch.

David. D

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Mechanical switch

I'll have a go, either tonight or tomorrow.

I have pulsed an air coil with it, using a recovery diode to collect radiant collapse, and was measuring >1000v with two different meters.

Love and light

[rave154]

cant wait *Slobers*

[Inquorate]

In your sketch

That coil on the end is just the one coil eh.. Not two separate Bifilar coils..

With that assumption in mind, I should be able to slap together a replication today. I'll be using a ferrite powder, iron filings and 2 part epoxy glue mixture to make the coil's core.

And I still have a couple of hv diodes somewhere.

I'll use my bedini motor to pulse a transistor to drive the ignition coil, since I'll be setting the mechanical switch up to join the free ends of the final coil's Bifilar wires to the neon. Or maybe I'll put more actual switch contacts on the mechanical switch mechanism..

Also, I don't want to build a 555 timer circuit.

I have one more question though; are you saying in your posts that the coil has been switched off when the neon glows with one leg contacting one of the Bifilar wires for 15sec?

Cause that's what I gathered from what you were saying. Which is cool. But I thought I'd check.

Love and light