The Master Of Magnetics "Steven Mark"

[c0mster]

Dave

I found as I was pulsing the coil when I brought a ferrite or magnetic item close to the black coil this appeared between the face of the magnet and the length of the coil. In the previous pic I was using a hard drive disk about 3mm above the coil, laying flat. I was pulsing the coil with a high voltage automotive coil through a spark gap. <see pic>

Comster

[c0mster]

Hi,

Did you notice this in daylight, or only in the dark?  Normally for things like that to show up in a one atmosphere pressure a long exposure camera time in darkness is required.  The discharges can only be easily seen when in vacuums or with certain gases inside.  Do you know what it is?




Dave.

Dave

I could see it in the light as well, it was very hard to capture with the camera. The camera only got a part of the true colours. I am at a loss to describe what this is. I think perhaps it is high voltage seeping from the wire covering. All my tests showed that this glow was attracted to magnetic bodies, but worked best with ceramic magnets and ferrite.   

Comster

[fcpeace17]

@Marco, Dave,

So you are going to run whitenoise into a flyback to Ignition coil?
The whitenoise does the high frequency on and off which is the drive design for an ignition coil. So with the Voltage pumped up, the whitenoise radiantly discharges as purple/blue plasma. This is burning the flamable compnents in the air. Just like lightning.

Can you post a sketch of this small circuit. Basically, once again you have multi frequency Tesla coil that needs no tuning. And this is good, because this represents a step to get to a very high frequency power source from lower power input.

@Dave,
Thanks for the white noise generator schem. I will build one.

--giantkiller, hence the name.

Do you know what page the white noise generator schematic is on?

[c0mster]

Dave

I believe the voltage was around 1kv. It is hard to tell when exactly the glow was created but when pulsed slowly it seemed to appear the instance when the spark jumped the gap. It sure would be nice to get access to a high-speed camera.

Comster

[giantkiller]

So,
I followed Marco's effort, went by Mannix's latest pic and Tao's previous pic.
I now have one of the SM coils. It took an hour with previous materials.
The collector is 4" of 4 turns of 16 gauge stranded. The 4 controllers are 41 turns of 22 gauge solid. I will hook this to my controller and see what happens.
Based on the spreadsheet I posted before, the 'Resonant frequency by core diameter', I am going to pulse it at 1.4k first. Then I will check out the other multiples.

--giantkiller