Joule Thief

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@ jeanna

I got 475volts today and no fluoro tube. I think Ms destructo needs to come over again and take apart a little cfl, maybe they are easier to start...

475 V, you must be really close to lighting the fluorescent tube. Does it glow just a little in the dark? Home depot should have the 4 watt tubes and maybe they will have the 1.6 watt tubes also.

I hope you are having fun with the neon. Yes it is both skin effect and capacitive coupling.

[gadgetmall]

@AK,
If what you say is true about the neons showing ac when both sides light then the hand held thing is ac. I just checked it and it lights both sides when I clip it and touch the glass.

Sometimes the light stays lit when I drop the wire and it seems I only need to touch my hand once and the charge will continue until I let go. How cool is this!

But I am not sure about the ac. I touched the glass on only one side and that one side lit then moved to the other and only that side lit.

@Gadget. I only get a notice from the site that an error has occurred when I poke your new acrylic tophat pics.

jeanna

Thanks Jeanna . They were Bright > its a Forum Problem i think . Nice Output but no light ?? Chop a dollar cfl up and it will .  I went back several pages and all the pics are gone and they say An Error Has Occurred!
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@ Pirate88179

And I have seen adds for gadgets that will let you get 1000 mpg. Before sending money I suggest you find out how they are testing to prove they have that voltage. I think it is a scam. I think that would be about a 4 foot spark in air.

There is dozens of companies that are advertising these kinds of claims so I think you would need to talk to someone from the company to see how they are measuring the voltage!

P.S. I have thought about the same thing Pirate!

[jeanna]

Right and the name they come in as is

index.php.html

and then when you open it it is a html of OU and the message says an error has occurred.
The site was down earlier to be fixed, maybe the fix goofed?

I had an odd thing happen today. I rightclicked to download a pic and my computer, as it does, offered me the last place where I had downloaded something from the browser and it offered me the "downloads" folder.

I NEVER use that folder because I think it is dangerous and besides I can use whatever I want. However, it IS where the default MSWindows place is to download something.

How my computer thought the last place I had downloaded something from the browser was there, is a mystery. I looked and there was nothing there that should not be there. I sure am glad my OS something other than microsoft, however.

Maybe I will open the debian computer tonight just to be safe. eesh this is a bother.

Maybe everybody should run whatever checker they have.

@Gadget
CFL didn't light. 11w black at the ends. phillips.

jeanna

[Pirate88179]

@ Pirate88179

And I have seen adds for gadgets that will let you get 1000 mpg. Before sending money I suggest you find out how they are testing to prove they have that voltage. I think it is a scam. I think that would be about a 4 foot spark in air.

It was in a Police supply catalog so I doubt that it is a scam.  Most of the other ones are 900,000 volts and they are much smaller units in physical size.  In thinking about while driving back from a job I just did, I would guess we have to factor the total power not just the volts.  So, I would have to see what power a 9 volts has and then see what power an AA has, and then maybe extrapolate what the output on the transformer might be.  Does this sound more correct?

Bill