The "Diode"

[hartiberlin]

They said to me during my visit at Methernitha?s place, that in some rear caps are crystal stones located.
That makes it more possible, that the machine actually gets its power
from light radiactive mountain crystals which are energized by High Voltage pulses
and release  radiation which is captured and electrically output.

Regards, Stefan.

[IcyBlue]

Hello Stefan,

You are assuming a vacuum tube with air in it, and hence ions are being used. If the vacuum is being maintained then, gathering from what you say, you wouldn't see sputtering

I should better have said 'reduced pressure'. If you have vacuum, there can't be air in it - vice versa. If you have vacuum you don't have ions, then you don't have sputtering but also not the effects which are claimed to be attributed to them by some.

Check out the following link. It's the first thing I found in a quick google search for "homemade vacuum tubes" so there's probably a lot more. I indicates not such a high vacuum and fancy equipment is needed for the electron approach.

Thanks for the links. Some interesting sites indeed. As I said; the broken tube I once had that sucked up air still was working (with just reduced pressure, but no highvacuum anymore), but did degade rather fast then. However, it was nice to look at with it's faint mysterious glow

I suggested to make the construction airtight to have the pressure as another variable parameter - if one should decide to build it and meassure the whole thing out. I will certainly do this somewtime this year, but at the moment I just don't have the time for this. Since I have been advised by my boss to conduct some HV experiments for material sciense, I'm now building the necessary devices for providing it anyway.

We eventually should stop guessing but rather build some of the guessed constructions and nail them down, i.e. record the stepresponse and the impulsresponse of the voltage and current. No matter where the energy really comes from; all of the  parts have a special function based on it's behavior - and the behavior can be meassured. We have the advantage that we can partly look into them, due to the grids.

[Bruce A. Perreault]

Attached is a clear photo of the choke.

                -Bruce P.

[Bruce A. Perreault]

Attached is a clear photo of the diode.

                -Bruce P.

[Steven Dufresne]

We eventually should stop guessing but rather build some of the guessed constructions and nail them down

I agree and plan to (and am anxious to). I just remembered that a friend of mine has a vacuum pump that I can borrow, so it just got easier. My current thinking is just as you say, test it at various pressures so that both ion and electron approaches can be tested. But due to local commitments I have to keep focused for the next week or so on a solar air heater that I'm building.
-Steve