Selfrunning cold electricity circuit from Dr.Stiffler

[DrStiffler]

I have been using this AV LED setup for quit a while now but the reason I was using was only because of the AC of the FuncGen. I also notice that with this device it does behave very weirdly. No matter how you connect the LEDs somehow I still have current in the middle of all of them and some voltage.

One more interesting thing that happened was I was trying to see if this electricity would conduct through water and guess what happened? Electrolisis. Not that this is something special ( I have been watching john Aaron at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dT1zudn-yTM for quit sometime now) it is that I got electrolisis with only 100ma, thats another story all together.

Aaron get his hydrogen using 12v with 10 Amps and I am getting, off course a lot of less hydrogen, with only 20v 100ma. There is something special about what kind of wire I am using too and its physical shape. I posted a video about it at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDCWaSFnSkg.

Fausto.

ps: purchasing LEDs on ebay from this guys in China is absolutely the cheapest I ever seen. 100 LEDs 15000 mcd for only $1 dollar plus $12 shipping and also 100 LEDs 5mm Red or Blue or White 5000mcd for again $1 and $6 shipping. Isn' that unreal? on jamenco was about $1.80 per LED!!!

LEDS we buy come from www.besthongkong.com, when I mentioned JameCo I did not mean to imply that everything we  use comes from there. The Ebay LEDS may be Ok, but I have had good luck with BestHongKong, 2-4 failures in 1k units and they seem to stand up for a good amount of time in SEC driven circuits.

JameCo is best for transistors, MOSFETS, Diodes, Capacitors and Resistors. In fact I just obtained 100ea 10uf@350V for $0.126ea. and 1kuf@50v for $0.36. Its the same story, shop, but JameCo has some good buys if you know what you are buying.

[plengo]

And one super stupid question: how can I find the uH of a coil with regular tools such as multimeter, osciloscope?

You can build one pretty cheap using a PIC16F84A, here's a schematic.

Thank you amigo, that was a very good kit. I just bought it.

[retrod]

After reading Fausto's post I thought to try an electrolysis add on myself. When I connected the two leads I found I had stray RF all over the place, especially the AA battery pack I was using for power.
I grabbed a nearby compact spiral light and proceed to find the best spot to partially light it up. This turned out to be the positive buss on the protoboard. The water cell consists of some isolated SS washers in a common mason jar. The electrolyte consists of tap water and pyroclay (gotta use this stuff somewhere). According to my EM meter the RF field doubled when I added the water cell.
Dave

[amigo]

JameCo is best for transistors, MOSFETS, Diodes, Capacitors and Resistors. In fact I just obtained 100ea 10uf@350V for $0.126ea. and 1kuf@50v for $0.36. Its the same story, shop, but JameCo has some good buys if you know what you are buying.

I always found Jameco the most expensive of the bunch and had far more better deals from Digi-key, Mouser, even Newark InOne. Another good source of cheap parts is Futurlec with some great deals, and the usual suspects such as All Electronics, Electronic Goldmine and B.G. Micro.

[amigo]

Thank you amigo, that was a very good kit. I just bought it.

Welcome, though I meant to build it not buy it because $60 is kinda steep for the parts used in it.

But then again, it's hassle free and if you do not have necessary tools to program the PIC it's the best way.