Dr Ronald Stiffler SEC technology

[gyulasun]

Hi Slider,

Thanks and please do not be discouraged when after building the oscillator on a soldered board you find it does not work just like it did on the proto board...  in this case further tweaking is needed that is all.   
Just use the same components first and after seeing how it works, make some adjustments.

Gyula

[Slider2732]

Oh, no discouragement if it doesn't work...I hope it doesn't because it's well known that breadboards muck up high frequency circuits. In this case, the presumption is it mucked it up in a positive way.

Those links were good for the bulb parts.
Seems to me that no matter how a circuit does something, if it can do it repeatedly for different people with the same easily available parts then it adds to evidence. I think we do need to know the bulb model that Dr. Stiffler has been using, to be on that same page.
Lighting LED's is only 1 area of any power delivery but so very important.
We found out last night how important that is when we had a large area power cut for 1 1/2 hours. First time in 10 years, though we get blip power cuts about once a week. The coal fired power station is only about 3 miles away, but I think they employ carpenters as electricians.
With a bit of warning lots of tests based on years old questions could have been made, the Stubblefield telephone, soil single wire transmission, everything else that needs the house power and surrounding power to be off. We just didn't know how long it would be off and I failed as a prepper lol. Never trust rechargeables to sit ready for weeks and never go lax on battery charging for emergency solutions !
However, there was 1 very strange observation which needs some consideration for capacitive couplings. Nephilim Penny has been running for nearly 7 years on rain water and is based on Lidmotor's tank circuit JT, but with a large double pancake coil, one on top of the other. I'm very used to it's flashes in the kitchen and the intensity from the LED. During the power cut, it speeded up its flash rate and brightened. I joked that because it's a blue LED people might think the emergency services were at our house....the light was that much brighter than any other time where the kitchen main light is off. However, was it just my eyesight having changed because of the low general light everywhere else, to make it seem so bright. That doesn't explain the speed up, from 1 per second to 3 per second. The thing also reacts to storms moving in, but anyway, just an observation.

[NickZ]

   Guys:   
   I think that I found the perfect substitute for the led bulb that the Doc is using. It works great as it has a glass enclosure with a reflective metal lining, and does the same type of capacitive effect that Doctor Stiffler is showing.  I will add the two IN4148 diodes to complete the circuit,  and I'll show it running in the next video.   
  It's a 120v, with 24 leds, but it doesn't say what wattage it may be, in any case it seams to work for what we need it to do.
  Although the reflective surface is not touching the leds, it still works fine when capacitively connected to my Kacher circuit.  I don't know how it would work on just 20v, but it is worth looking into it.

   BTW:  Slider, the three leds that stayed lit when I turned off the input to the Kacher circuit during my video, did go out when I turned off my house breakers.
   I think that the red leds that the Doc showed lighting on some of his earlier PSEC videos, may well be lightlng from his stray capacitive AC, as well.   There was a guy that showed 100 leds lighting on his version of the PSEC. Which is the circuit that interests me the most.
It needed No battery, no signal generator, no Tesla coil, no loop (possibly), and it was lighting the 100 leds, on just a ground line. Which probably means that it's not just lighting all those 100 leds from the stray AC.  I believe.
However, that particular video is not on YT any more, as far as I can see.

[gyulasun]

Hello Nick,
With careful handling the wires, you may wish to measure the AC current from the 120V mains if you wish. You surely have a DMM that is able to measure AC current.  This way the power of the LED lamp could be estimated pretty close. 
Isn't the type of the lamp printed on the body? 
The 24 LEDs if they are all in series have about 77 V added up forward voltage drop if they are around 3.2-3.3 V each.  If this is so, then there has to be a input voltage reducing circuit inside, probably with a dedicated linear regulator, after a diode bridge and puffer capacitor.   

Gyula

[NickZ]

   Here is an image of the HUNTER led bulb lighting capacitively off of my Kacher/Tesla Coil. 
Yes,  Gyula, there is a capacitor or maybe a big resistor inside the bulb, but looks like no actual circuit,  from what I can see through the glass bulb.  Although I can't see much,  because there is nothing else in there.
  Sorry,  but I'm not able to attach the image of the bulb firing up, here.   
  I'll attach it on my next post, below.