Quote from: innovation_station on August 08, 2009, 12:19:59 AM


where can a dude find some tunston ....  cheep like free...  and it needs to be thicker than light bulb filiment ...

IST

A phone call  and a short drive should get you  a tungston electrode  .........unless you live right in the middle of nowhere . 
Just look in the phone book for  welding  supplys

TIG welders   use  tungston  electrodes


here is a link  .........not  sure if this is a good  price ,.
http://store.cyberweld.com/wetuel.html


Not  free ........but  if you can find  a place that will sell you  1 or 2 it  will  be pretty close to free .
I would   try to avoid the   throiated. As I understand it  these  have something radioactive added ......probably not enough to do any real damage .......but  I  avoid anything  radioactive whenever I can.



gary

thank you GARY!!!

awesome stuff and not that much money..  i have found it to be a pain in the a$$  to let the thing run wild as i want it to  but this will change ... 



for now im a run it in 2 freqs ...   to be able to work with what i have currently

most of my stuff has been moved so im working with what i have found ..

but you bet when i can afford the proper materials that will allow it to rippppp  ill buy em 

till then  im building some really kool spark gaps

xee2 i tryed a spark plug ...  did not work so well

but the plugg was old and was probally worn out ill have to try a few diffrent ones b4 i say that it will or wont work for me .. 

would be totally kool if it did tho 

it would be 1 wild unit 

ist!

Hi everybody,
I have begun a series of videos about my 2 tier circuit.
This one is an introduction to the unit I am using.
It is basically an introduction to the primary... the basic joule thief part of the circuit..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4IMgDRGpHE

jeanna

@ all

I finally realized why the ignition coils were not working better. The primary resistance is 1.4 ohms for a few hundred turns of wire. So there must be a resistor in the primary to limit battery current. So most of the power going into the primary is being wasted heating the resistor instead of generating a magnetic field.

@ Jeanna:

Excellent video!  I am looking forward to the next part.  Very good job.  You explain it so even I can understand what you are doing.  Very good production too.

@ All:

I had this crazy idea last night and i am thinking of giving it a try.  I want to try a spark gap on my EER-ultracap-Fuji circuit to see if I can get any sparks.
Is 350-400 volts enough to generate a small spark over say.... about .003" gap?  If I used very fine wire?  If it is, should I stick a camera flash cap (300 volt) between the Fuji and the spark gap?

If that is not enough volts, I could possible wire a trigger coil into the circuit which should mean a few thousand volts I believe.

I just thought it would be cool to see this at night but I don't know if I can make it work or not.

Bill