2ALL:
     As to the question concerning the florescent ballasts, please check out the following video by IST (Innovation Station):
     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_vIF_K3QSo&feature=related

    I hope that the ballast can be made to work with a Joule Thief as stated, in anycase it will be interesting to see what happens.
                                                                           NZ

Wattsup,,it is possible you got the real thing ,,,a tesla coil quality NST,,,the others at 5 lbs are useless for TC work,,,if they have,then that has to be dis-abeled.Repeat,,,,this......

http://www.signbuyer.co.uk/ever-light-neon-power-supply-5kv-25ma-2407-p.asp

Will NOT work for Tesla Coil Duty.
Joe in Texas

That definitly includes Don Smith....

I was talking to Peter Lindemann on the phone a while back and the topic of Don Smith came up, there was some good laughs at his expense im afraid because he is a complete farce! His concepts are interesting however he NEVER created a device he showed that worked....and made many claims.....such as the OU neon sign transformer...which were blatantly false! You would think a person on top of their game would know such things!

    @All:
    If it weren't for Kapanadze's videos we could say the same about him. How many people have been able to replicate that device?
  Looks to me like we have actually regresed in our technology, and that there was more going on at the turn of the century, than now.
These devices are so tricky to use, that if you were to have a working unit and take it apart and put it back together, it might not ever work again.  But I feel that the working concept is important, and that we may not have hit on it,  yet,  or these devices would have been a reality a long time ago. 
  The way I see it... by now we should be living in houses that use no wires, and the breaker box activated by a device the size of a postage stamp, inserted into it what looks like a flash drive, using nano technology.  Dangerous, ineficient AC current,  and the grid would be a thing of the past.  Why we aren't we there,  yet? 
    I think we know why... And I also feel like someone is laughing at us.  Or,  am I the only one that thinks so? 
 

Quote from: NickZ on June 20, 2010, 12:33:24 PM
    @All:
    If it weren't for Kapanadze's videos we could say the same about him. How many people have been able to replicate that device?
  Looks to me like we have actually regresed in our technology, and that there was more going on at the turn of the century, than now.
These devices are so tricky to use, that if you were to have a working unit and take it apart and put it back together, it might not ever work again.  But I feel that the working concept is important, and that we may not have hit on it,  yet,  or these devices would have been a reality a long time ago. 
  The way I see it... by now we should be living in houses that use no wires, and the breaker box activated by a device the size of a postage stamp, inserted into it what looks like a flash drive, using nano technology.  Dangerous, ineficient AC current,  and the grid would be a thing of the past.  Why we aren't we there,  yet? 
    I think we know why... And I also feel like someone is  at us.  Or,  am I the only one that thinks so? 

Its not about number of replicators, its about the fact that he has never shown anything working to anyone, in 20 some years, nobody has ever seen a working device. He gives out "facts" which are not, and quite wrong, such as the neon sign transformer deal, and made all sorts of crazy claims that NEVER panned out...A rose by any other name.