Joule Thief

[jeanna]

I was recalling a scene from the outtakes and bloopers section at the end of the last dvd re-do of starwars from the old days, where there was a recollection of the ads from kenner for the empty box to be filled later with the promised item.
In this ad blooper the child opens a lightsaber and turns it on and gleefully swings it around chopping his folks into pieces. dark humor...I laugh every time.

j

[jeanna]

But I did find an important piece this morning.
This is from Inventions... and is from the part where the author who put Tesla's lectures together is giving an overview of the lectures.
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He illustrated
in a series of novel experiments the effect of the gas surrounding the conductor and shows beyond a doubt that with high frequency and high potential currents, the surrounding gas is of paramount importance in the heating of the conductor. He attributes the heating partially to a conduction current and partially to bombardment, and demonstrates that in many cases the
heating may be practically due to the bombardment alone.
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So, the surrounding gas and bombardment alone.
The bombardment is I think what a fluorescent tube is demonstrating.
Now, the heat at HVHF.... hmmm there is hope here.

So, kooler,
doug's portrait is ok but,
Are you going to give us a circuit?

jeanna

[kooler]

So, kooler,
doug's portrait is ok but,
Are you going to give us a circuit?

jeanna

its the same old circuit that i used i just wanted to throw more volts to it.. so i saw this ccfl board
and there it is.. it put out alittle over 1kv on 5 volts.. so i gave it 6 volts

http://www.goldmine-elec-products.com/prodinfo.asp?number=G16565

it also shows 1600 volts on my scope with 1.5 volts in.. but it wont lite a cfl..

i will get me one of fly swatter thingys again.. 3 volts will get you 1500-2000..
plus there cheaper than the ones goldmine had that time..

i just pulled the caps off the board and run a diode to my cap and triac bunch of neons and to the bulb

robbie

[jadaro2600]

http://www.goldmine-elec-products.com/prodinfo.asp?number=G13825

Ordered this recently, looks like a fuji circuit as it is.

[kooler]

http://www.goldmine-elec-products.com/prodinfo.asp?number=G13825

Ordered this recently, looks like a fuji circuit as it is.

sweet deal i got a couple of those coming..soon.. order stuff 6 days ago and still no order confim yet.. thinking of not buying from them again..

robbie