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[TinselKoala]

Hi Tinsel! 
Great picture.
I have a couple of questions.

a) is your tesla powerplant basically a tesla coil?
b) when you put more lamps near the coil, do they still light with the same brightness as when you put one there?  I've just done a coil myself, and when I place three bulbs on my toroid they seem to light slightly dimmer than when i use just 1.  Obviously I was rather disappointed! 

PS.  Has anyone noticed that when you touch the bulbs AFTER the coil is turned off, they light once more for a few seconds.  Is this just the bulb discharging into the ground?  The same thing seems to happen if it touch it with a ground wire.

Thanks guys

Thanks, yes, the powerplant is basically a Tesla coil, but it is tuned somewhat differently. You will note that the capacitors are not of a value to provide power line resonance in the primary circuit, so the power transfer from the mains is less than what you would need for a "maximum spark length" TC, which seems to be what most builders are going for. The secondary is tuned to be a quarter-wave resonator at about 1.25 MHz, which is quite high for a sparking coil, and the three--element fixed-adjustable primary spark gap is turned right down to a miniscule little gap, so the energy in the primary circuit is much smaller than in a sparking TC.

I was able to pack a double-handful of CF lights near the coil; they all seem to glow at full brilliance to my eyeballs, but that's not a real measurement, I admit. This coil is in storage in another country right now, or I'd test it more comprehensively.

I think that "afterglow" is what you say, and also a result of your own body's built-up charge.

@sparks:
You might not be so wrong. With my static machines I often sometimes notice a peculiar phenomenon, also with the TCs but less noticeable: The things might be steadily sparking along, say once evey five seconds, with a nice purple ropy corona-like sssnapping discharge, then--every so often, once in a while, instead of this spark there will be a brilliant white lightning-bolt spark, with an explosive SNAP! sound that is much more definite and indicates a lot more charge movement than the usual sparks. It will be hard to prove, but I believe that these particular snappy sparks are incorporating, or entraining somehow, some outside energy, in excess of that provided by the machine's power source. I am relatively sure (but it is harder to show) that this happens in the Tesla power plant system as well.

[ramset]

Tinsel Koala
You seem to be taking the path less traveled?[or am I misunderstanding?][your circuit design regarding the mains]

Lighting up Mitfulls of CF lights {I know this is not conclusive, but because YOU are showing this] Cool

Your contribution here is TOP SHELF

And I [and I am sure most] always look forward to your posts
   Thanks
   Chet

[flathunter]

Thanks for the quick reply Tinsel.

Now i'm even asking the wife if she thinks one lamp on top is dimmer than three!  Would be nice to actually get some kind of data on how bright the lamps light.  Perhaps I was mistaken.  Here are a few pics of my lamps anyhow.  I must admit that tonight, when i took the pics, they seemed to be the same brightness.

I'm still very interested in explanations as to how the bulbs continue to glow AFTER the coil has been switched off, as long as they touch something.  It doesnt seem to matter if they touch the ground wire, my hand, or an object.  They continue to light up dimly at each contact for at least a minute after the coil has already been off, and it doesnt seem to matter how many times I touch them (this is what makes me think that they arent simply discharging.....Surely they would discharge almost completely on first touch).  I'll get a video on here as soon as I buy a video recorder (soon I hope!!!), as I know it would explain what im talking about a lot better than words.

Thanks for your time mate!

PS.  I was chatting with you not too long ago about Naudins E-motor, and you suggested that it could just be electrostatic induction.  I have to say that using the materials i have at hand (beer cans and kinder surprises) I'm in no position to prove other than this.  I'd like to get my hands on some high k dielectric materials to prove this wrong, as my instinct is still telling me otherwise.....anyhow, i'll keep you posted

[flathunter]

....and 3 lamps...

[TinselKoala]

Lovely! I love the coronas.

I use CFs with the power supply base removed, though. Just the naked bulb. I think the power supply could be short-circuiting some of your energy. Can you do a comparison with one bulb with PS and one without?