Dr Ronald Stiffler SEC technology

[gyulasun]

Hi SkyWatcher,
Your observation is okay and "unfortunately" known science can explain it.  The uncharged capacitor is a short circuit in the very first moments it is attached to a voltage or current source.  You think it correctly that in these moments the capacitor draws the most amperage. But
Because in this oscillator the output is the oscillating coil itself, an LC tank, and C being the self capacitance of the coil, about 3 to 5 pf for such single layer and long coils.  So if the cap is shorting this tank and it surely does, then there can be no oscillations because the high impedance of the tank disappears and becomes a very low impedance.  If you touch the top wire of the tank with your finger, then oscillations may also stop hence input current will be nearly zero again.  (It cannot be total zero because the 100 kOhm base resistance should DC bias it a little.)
Gyula

[gyulasun]

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Edit: gyulasun, the led bulb has 4 ribbons and still, it could be a useful circuit for a capacitor dumping system, i think.

Okay on the 4 ribbons instead of 3:  this does not matter here and does not change anything you have found or I have said on them so far, except for the number of LEDs in one ribbon may then be only 9 in series and the 4 ribbons are also in series.  What is needed for the original LED bulb manufactured for 120 V AC is to use as many LEDs as needed by summing up their forward voltage drops to make up closely for the full wave rectified and possibly also filtered mains input amplitude, to get the just needed LED current hence specified bulb power. 
You have the original circuit that was put inside for driving the LEDs from the mains, I think it consists of a full wave diode bridge and a puffer cap, and maybe a some Ohm resistor in series with the AC input to limit current a little.  LED lamps originating mainly from China use a 1-2 uF non-electrolytic capacitor also in series with the mains input to drop AC input voltage for the LEDs as needed.
Gyula

[gyulasun]

Hi Lidmotor,

Here are the data sheets for your 4 pin crystal oscillators.
http://pccomponents.com/datasheets/mpc-970t.pdf  for the 13.68 MHz  and
https://www.datasheets360.com/pdf/-2929749759931786650   for the ZPB-5 oscillator.

You can see that these also require 5V DC +/- 0.15V or so volt and the output gives TTL level oscillator signals.
I mention this because in your video 2 days ago the DC supply voltage was only 4.1V for the MPC 13.68 MHz oscillator.
Luckily the oscillator has been able to work and give output. 
From an 5V supply the output level will also increase to 4Vpp or so, too. Of course, if you wish to use a 4V supply instead of 5V and the 4 pin oscillator still works and gives enough output level for driving your proposed amplifier, then it is okay.

Gyula

[Slider2732]

Skywatcher123 - first of all let me apologise for getting your name wrong in the video below...am new here 
I had a look at your multi-turn Primary idea and must say that it's a great idea !
36 turns of the same 30AWG as the main coil. But the main coil is split in half as another difference.
The DMM seems to have messed up though, it reports 19.5mA at 5V 
Half decent light out of the 8W DT bulb, the 12 diode ring similar to Dr. Stiffler's build runs really really well. The pseudo SFM works wirelessly and the wireless field is all over the table and to a good height above it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6uVwFaCDeg

[SkyWatcher123]

Hi all, Hi slider, thanks for sharing, now i will have to test using the same gauge for primary, which is also 30awg. in my setup.
I think your observed amp input, is probably fairly accurate.

I decided to place another identical, modified led bulb in parallel with the other led bulb.
The input did not change and both bulbs are quite bright, of course the original bulb dimmed a little, though not as much as one might imagine, the light output from both is very impressive.
I need to get some more 1n4148 diodes and put at least 2 in parallel per av plug leg, because they get hot.
Am also going to try some other small transistors to compare.
Though keep in mind, I'm using 1.5 watt input at the moment, though i wonder what the same gauge primary will do.
peace love light