Joule Thief

[jadaro2600]

I was skimming recent posts when I cam across the bit about mercury and CFL's.  If you turn one one, for instance, a twist bulb, and then use a camera lens as a sort of projector, you can see the mercury in the tube, ..very little of it is actually a vapor, as you can see from this picture, there is a bead in the tube, ..gravity seems to be having more effect on the metal that the HV field.

This is a picture taken of light passing through the detachable camera lens.  It creates a projection onto a piece of paper of itself.

This first image is of the cfl in the vertical position hanging down, and the second is with the bulb tilted to one side.  Enjoy the ghostly images.

[Pirate88179]

@ Jeanna:

Tesla's description of the tank circuit sounds EXACTLY like what I am doing with supercaps and the EB!  I never really thought of it that way but, I believe this is correct.  Thank you for posting this.  I believe my knowledge just went up a notch.

Bill

[gadgetmall]

Has anyone got or seen  that acrylic stuff that lights up on the edges  or Light-Scattering Fibre Materials  . The reason is my Bro has some of these round solar  landscape light that have one bright white led in the middle and the  thing has three large clear plastic or Lucite rings and the whole thing lights up . It amplifies the light id say by 1000 times . I cant find them any where on the net  They were bought at a close out at lowes I think someone jumped on that technology and now proprietary technology . I have seen some of the edge lit material in malls and disply cases and such . there are a few on ebay but 100's of dollars .
this is somthing similar here . they got what i was talking about . its like crystal . heck just one bright led in this can make a nice lamp or light up  walls .. just an idea i will be searching for some  c;ear acrylic resin to play with .. http://www.elumanation.com/eLume_LED_NeonFlex.html
gadget ..

[Pirate88179]

I was skimming recent posts when I cam across the bit about mercury and CFL's.  If you turn one one, for instance, a twist bulb, and then use a camera lens as a sort of projector, you can see the mercury in the tube, ..very little of it is actually a vapor, as you can see from this picture, there is a bead in the tube, ..gravity seems to be having more effect on the metal that the HV field.

This is a picture taken of light passing through the detachable camera lens.  It creates a projection onto a piece of paper of itself.

This first image is of the cfl in the vertical position hanging down, and the second is with the bulb tilted to one side.  Enjoy the ghostly images.

Very nice photos of the mercury bead there.  I "knew" they had mercury but not like this.  Very good info.  Thank you.

Bill

[gadgetmall]

I was skimming recent posts when I cam across the bit about mercury and CFL's.  If you turn one one, for instance, a twist bulb, and then use a camera lens as a sort of projector, you can see the mercury in the tube, ..very little of it is actually a vapor, as you can see from this picture, there is a bead in the tube, ..gravity seems to be having more effect on the metal that the HV field.

This is a picture taken of light passing through the detachable camera lens.  It creates a projection onto a piece of paper of itself.

This first image is of the cfl in the vertical position hanging down, and the second is with the bulb tilted to one side.  Enjoy the ghostly images.

Thanks Jarado . I used to bust old Floro tube when i was a kid and collect the mercury and play with it As i remember there was a lot of mercury in them as i had collected about an 1/4 inch in a vicks jar . Yea i was into everything back then , and still am !

Gadget