Selfrunning cold electricity circuit from Dr.Stiffler

[hartiberlin]

By the way:

MUR 4100 E
1kV 4(125)A 75ns DO27
from Motorola

diodes work quite nice as the Avramenko Plug diodes.
A bit better than the 1N4148
at least in my setups.

[hoptoad]

"You cannot just measure the DC current going through the LEDs to check for over-unity, you actually need to check the input to the entire circuit against the light output. "

Lumens out per input Watts, .....KneeDeep......LpW......KneeDeep 

[amigo]

@Amigo,
can you please show a picture of your Thomas circuit ?
Did you built it also onto an experimentator board, that has 2 alu backplates ?

How do you control the resonance frequency with this circuit ?
How do you adjust it for optimal resonance ?

I hope we can get rid of these experimentator boards and can try to
create something that works on a normal PCB board, so one could
create a kit that also works without any problems.

Photo is attached (turned out pretty nice in close-up).

I am using a standard breadboard with a single plate at the bottom since I do not have spare plate-less breadboards right now. Once I free one I'll try the circuit on a plain breadboard and report what happens.

I have tried changing the 190pf cap to 150 and 220 and that seems to have change the operating frequency by couple of tens of kHz. Otherwise I did not have to adjust anything, the circuit is self-regulating once the oscillations begin.

Power is supplied from the rail in the middle, connected to a 12V gel battery via alligator clips (out of frame).

[hoptoad]

Previous quote "The circuit apparently oscillates at ~1.5MHz and uses ~32mA of current from my 12V gel battery though that figure seems to fluctuate up and down, I've seen it go up to 70mA when I was probing points with my scope but that's just temporary."

Photo is attached (turned out pretty nice in close-up).

Assuming 35 ma is the real average for the point of reference, then just 3 LEDS running at that current would account for 12 V x .035 = 420 milliwatts. You have what appears to be 20 LEDS running very brightly   
Just how brightly! is the key question to me. Things "look" very promising from here.

Great Job Amigo. 

KneeDe...

[hansvonlieven]

So now that this works how do we get rid of the battery altogether?

Burn it

Hans von Lieven