oh boy your a genius! 



         
   
     

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_cathode

Imagine huge cold cathode, I would say EXTRA huge. What should it contain ? Of course material able to emit electrons, of course field forcing electrons to escape from material, of cource collector.
Don Smith would say - use what is already here    , but Thomas A. was first, and Edwin but that guy never grasped the idea....

He he  ... do you like riddles ? 

Mags
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They are coming from the Philipines so will have to wait a bit to get here. My buddy is going to electroplate my carbon rod fan blades
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Mags my salty balls came thru unsalted  NG
apparently the Philippines is having some quality control issues
their Balls are no longer meeting SBC standards.

Chet

Ok, I have a bit of time for my self. Im putting the projects that I planned on doing this evening on hold for a little project playin with some microwave oven parts. My buddy had a beat up one in the back of his truck and I got the big transformer, the hv diode, nice, the .94uf cap 2000v aaaaand the ac induction cooling fan.
The fan motor has my interest. I have had experience with these when I was a kid with cheap phonographs but never really looked at how they work really. But I looked at the flux path in the core and I see tings, Some tings. lol  Shunt coils and thinned out pathways. Interesting. Could we get a resonance going on it with a cap.

But just real quick at the shop I put the secondary of the transformer on the fan(120v ac ind fan) and pulsed the primary( I think the primary, it has the beefy windings) anyway I pulsed it with a 12v bat and the fan turns good.
But I want to just do a lil vid in a bit and try some caps on the fans coil and do an igniter cap charge to the beef and see how the fan goes. I dont know what the voltage is of the diode yet. But I can most likely use it somewhere here but it is good yo have around for free.
Be back in a bit.

Mags

Tito,

I don't really want anything...

As someone said afterward, it's a free world and you can do anything you like, and so did I - by voicing my observations...

This thread deteriorated from the main subject awhile ago anyway, but that's a management issue not a participants problem.