RESONANCE EFFECTS FOR EVERYONE TO SHARE

[TinselKoala]

I'm reading you, Chris. Please don't stop commenting.

Myself, I've been there, done that, and I know your advice will save folks some hassle and money.
I can't count the number of 555 timers and electrolytic capacitors that I've literally exploded, in pulse circuits that are unprotected.
I always wear eye protection around these things. Even MOSFETs can fail spectacularly. I know I've blasted pieces of an experimental isopropyl alcohol vapor capacitor into another dimension.

The problem, of course, is that interesting behaviour of these circuits often sometimes only manifests itself in shall we say the non-linear region of the performance envelope. Or maybe even completely outside it. And the addition of these safety valves, while protecting components, sometimes seems to "regularize" the behaviour of the circuit so that the interesting performance goes away.

So it's a toss-up. I figure chips are cheap, a lot cheaper than the time it takes to plug them in or out. So buy a lot of them, use sockets, wear eye protection, warn the neighbors, and experiment away.

And also incorporate the protections that Chris (and somewhere, even I) have suggested, if it doesn't tame your wild electrons too much.

@Chet:

[Shiver]

12V @1A is pretty usable power.    I have a couple of questions I hope someone could answer:

1. Do you think these circuits could be run in parallel from a common signal generator, or would that mess up the effect? (or does each one have to be individually tuned?).

2. Could the signal be opto-isolated in some way? ( I'm dimly aware that perhaps that is an extremely stupid question).

3. Would more florescent lights demand more power than is available?  It reminds me of that artist guy who planted one end of thousands of tubes in the ground under a pylon and they all lit up.

My apologies if these things are irrelevant, as electronics isn't my field.  I'm just trying to grasp what you guys are creating here.  Thankyou.

[najman100]

WOW, this is what I call colaboration. I'm very impressed.

najman100,

Great job on those PCBs, I know you from ionizationx. you also did a board design for that circuit I designed with stevie to drive the 3 primaries on a toroid.

You guys got me motivated to pull out my tesla coils and experiment....

Thank you watercellguy

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if every thing goes well in this design i will assume that i will have better production from my dry cell ,better mmw ,by harvesting back emf and by reaching coil resonance.
do not forget that stan meyers design there is a coil chock ,the apple do not fall far from the tree .Tesla  is the king .

Najman100

[watercellguy]

I have an ideal I would like to share, not sure how it will work... but here it is:

how about if we use a air core transformer like the ones you are using now, but with 3 windings.

1st winding is your primary driven by the same method.

2nd winding having many more turns making a HV LC circuit. on this coil we only connect a capacitor to make an HV Resonance circuit.

3nd winding is your output coil.

Any comments are welcome.

[najman100]

I have an ideal I would like to share, not sure how it will work... but here it is:

how about if we use a air core transformer like the ones you are using now, but with 3 windings.

1st winding is your primary driven by the same method.

2nd winding having many more turns making a HV LC circuit. on this coil we only connect a capacitor to make an HV Resonance circuit.

3nd winding is your output coil.

Any comments are welcome.

this the stan meyers design , build it ,but what i see that you will loose the back emf from the primary coil ,maybe will have the catastrophic failure of water maybe not ,all you have is to build it the way that this pcb is designed is it redirects the BEMF to the source and i intend to hook it in parallel to the dry cell .
Najman100