Slayer driven neon-producing DC via resistor ?.

[MarkE]

The film capacitor is linear.  The resistors are linear.  The wires are linear.  What's not linear is like you say: that NE-2.

[tinman]

The voltage develops around loops.

What loop's-all wires are straight.

[MarkE]

What loop's-all wires are straight.

They still envelope an area.

[retrod]

Neon bulb detectors:

"Neon lamps have been historically used as microwave and millimeter-wave detectors ('plasma diodes' or GDDs- Glow Discharge Detectors) up to about 100 GHz or so and in such service were said to exhibit comparable sensitivity (of the order of a few 10s to perhaps 100 microvolts) to the familiar 1N23-type catwhisker-contacted silicon diodes once ubiquitous in microwave equipment. More recently it has been found that these lamps work well as detectors even at submillimeter ('terahertz') frequencies and they have been successfully used as pixels in several experimental imaging arrays at these wavelengths.

In these applications the lamps are operated either in 'starvation' mode (to reduce lamp-current noise) or in normal glow discharge mode; some literature references their use as detectors of radiation up into the optical regime when operated in abnormal glow mode. Coupling of microwaves into the plasma may be in free space, in waveguide, by means of a parabolic concentrator (e.g., Winston cone), or via capacitive means via a loop or dipole antenna mounted directly to the lamp"

RD

[tinman]

A question for anyone that know's.
What happens if we run a second layer over the first layer in a tesla type tower(that im using in my slayer exciter setup). So to be more clear-->we have one layer of wire running up the tower,and then the end is left open. If we run that end down through the middle of the tower,and make that our start for our next layer,and then leave the end of the second layer open,will that double the voltage out?,or not work at all?. It would be the same as a tesla bifilar pancake coil,only in tower style.

Any thoughts guy's?.