Joule Lamp

[NickZ]

  Hey Guys:
   Here is a picture of a small 2 inch tall Exciter circuit lighting a 15watt Cfl on 5 volts.  It's not full bright, but still very usable output. You don't really need to have a ferrite rod the full size of the air core. This one is using justa small one inch ferrite rod inside the core. Once tuned for the sweet spot it improved the output by about 30%, over when no ferrite is  used.  It will also light even a 65 watt Cfl very nicely.
 
   I'm still working on my ferrite rod 3.0 LS replication, and I'll probably make a video soon, if I can keep the transistors from going up in smoke, or getting hit by the bemf spikes, or whatever is knocking them off.  The HF burns and shocks are taking their toll on me... as even the 3 inch ferrite rod bites hard now.

  Lynx:  I'm also interested in having a wind generator, as there is a nice breeze here all night long, but not much during the day. So, solar panels to charge batteries in the day, and wind generator charging them at night. The best of both worlds.  Homemade batteries would also be nice to have, now that Bedini has come out with the Alum/lead cells. Using sea water would also be interesting in those batteries.

 

[Lynxsteam]

I am working hard on getting an affordable DIY wind turbine kit ready for sale.  Its been three years of hard work and many prototypes.  Its absolutely quiet and doesn't have to be way up on a pole.  On the subject of batteries.  I have done some experimenting with sea water batteries.  It works very well.  1.5 volts per cell. 

[puneet1984]

is this discussion still active??
Need to clear few doubts