Crystal Power CeLL by John Hutchison

[sutra]

@ all

All your posts are a good source of ideas....
I was thinking, once my galena crystal arrives, to build a cell composed as follows:

Rochelle salt
Galena dust (600 grit) ground native crystal
Quartz dust(600 grit) out of pure amethyst faceting process.
Pyrite dust(600 grit) ground native crystal

and some nice electonic kick through the material...

as electrode an unusually long copper rod (working also as antenna)....

I'm just waiting for the Galena....

Update to electrically interfered Rochelle Salts:

I submitted the disolved salt to a dc current of about 30V, the container is a steel spray cream can and positive copper electrode.

The salt is structurally identical to the normal one but dark maroon in colour.

It is taking also substantially loger time to dry completely

I'll let you know if there is any difference in practical use

Cheers

[mdmiller]

Is anyone using any software for modeling the electrical characteristics of their mixes?

There are a few technical evaluation reports out on cells that (supposedly) work well along with some limited info on the electrical characteristics of the "crystal".  Establishing a mix initially with similar electrical performance characteristics would be a good beginning.  NIST has some semiconductor design software packages at their site that are public domain, I'm not familiar with them.

thanks for any advice - Duane

[AbbaRue]

Does anyone know were I can find a chart of curie temperatures for the various piezoelectric materials?

[MrSpates]

I don't know if this is the right place to ask this question, but I'm looking for a high voltage power supply that puts out pure DC in the range from say 5k to 30k. The only ones I have ever seen are AC powered and put out a pulsed current. I guess for pure DC I'd have to find something that worked off of batteries?  Anybody know where I could find such a thing?

[AbbaRue]

Find an old computer monitor thay still turns on.  Many times the cables go bad on monitors and replacing them is
to expensive to they just get thrown out.  The high voltage terminal going to the picture tube can be used
for a high voltage power supply of pure dc, just build a HV cap using a jar with foil on the inside and outside.
Check out the JLN Labs website for more info.
http://jnaudin.free.fr/ 
The lifter section has many examples of people that used one.