Joule Lamp

[NickZ]

 Lynx:
   Those bulbs work very well.  Thanks for showing us your set up.

   I'm working on the solar Exciter, and getting it to light several gutted CFL bulbs, which has been coming along, slow but steady.
  Here are some photos, and a video that I made today.  I've already got the solar cells, and 12 battery ready. Kinda like Hitman's boxed set-up that was lighting 10 2 watt leds. But, I had a bunch of the dead CFLs waiting just for this, so I decide to use them, first.

    My latest video:
  Ihttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y55J7pqD7tk

[NickZ]

  This is the link to the video (above), I don't know why it' not linking it like normal.
So, I hope that it works this time.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y55J7pqD7tk
                                                                 
          NickZ

[Lynxsteam]

Nick,

Very cool setup!  Looks like a Tesla lab.  Why is that big chunk of aluminum so close to the experiment?  Seems like that would really suck the energy out of the coils.

A note on my testing in my latest Video.  I thought I would find out how much the power draw was going up due to the AC power wire run length in feet.  I was going to be very scientific and calculate by feet what the power effect was.  Its about a 90 foot loop counting both AC lines. 
But, the power draw was the same directly run off the LJL converter - 2.24 amps.  Earlier this week I had run 4 Utilitech 7.5 watt bulbs on 21 watts, now these 3 Utilitech and one Philips 3 watt bulb takes 26 watts.  The Philips bulbs are power hogs!  I sort of knew that, but I bought this cute little bulb because it looks good in the outside carriage lantern.

I get more light on less power draw by replacing the Philips bulb.  21 watts instead of 26 watts, and the transistor doesn't get warm, and the length of the AC run isn't that big a factor in a normal household situation.

Lots to learn and document in these experiments.

[NickZ]

  Glad you like my set up, the reason I go wireless is to see if I can light several bulbs on just mAs.  Slayer has shown that his Exciter circuit wired to a smaller LS type of E-core could light a gutted 2 or 3 watt led bulb on 28 mAs, using 12v, and only half that current when using 6 volts.  I'll bet that more bulbs can be strung in series there also.     Lasersaber has 10 bulbs running on 200 mAs. That's like 20 mA per bulb.

  It looks like the lower the voltage levels that are used,  the current draw also drops proportionally.  So, a 6 volt battery will draw half the current as the 12 volt one will.
But, the light intensity may not drop by half as much.

  The big aluminum block is there to add capacitance to the circuit, and will help to brighten the bulbs up.  The two small towels are working together with each other.
Each CFL bulb is different from the rest of them, and each has a different type  of light quality, and intensity.  Some may also be hogs, but they me costed me,  zilch.
 
   

[SeaMonkey]

...
The two small towels are working together with each other.
...

I watched the video twice just to try and see those small
"towels."   

RF induction and what it is able to do experimentally is
always a sight to behold.  CFLs are a good vehicle for
that sort of demonstration.