Joule Ringer!

[synchro1]

@Nickz,

         That's gotta be the coolest looking light gadget of all time! I wondered where you were headed with that conical ferrite yoke. The idea that it's projecting an intensified field into the 65 watt CFL bulb base and adding to the brightness is fantastic. Congratulations on a really impressive put together! 

[NickZ]

  Thank you for the nice compliments Synchro1, I appreciate it.

   Here is a very short video showing the Joule Ringer Lamp lighting my dinning table.
If the video volume is too low, just turn it up, as this camera has low volume levels.
  Thanks for watching,
                                  NickZ

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iTdrjIRiwo&feature=youtu.be

                             

[powercat]

@Nickz
That is looking very nice and bright, looking forward to your solar panel test,
I try this myself and found my best results with two panels in series and then connect the two pairs.

It would be interesting if you can run your light of a capacitor, first without solar panels
and then with the solar panels to see how much longer you can get.

There must come a point when one of these Joule lights will be self sustaining and for that to be provable
Surely it must be able to run from a capacitor as most of us know battery chemistry can be unpredictable

This is currently one of the best threads on the forum, no extravagant claims, all the information available,
and good honest people sharing their work openly for everyone to see.

All the best

[NickZ]

  Powercat:
  I will try your suggestion tomorrow, of two panels in series, and two in parallel. As the way they are now would not light the 65watt Cfl bulb, fully bright.  My panels don't have enough current output. But, I'll give your idea a try anyway, you never know...
  The four small panels are all in parallel, but can't provide enough current to fully light the big bulb. But, it did light the bulb fairly well even directly connected to the panels. I will do more testing tomorrow with a 12 battery to see how bright it will light the bulbs.

  I don't have high voltage capacitors to try on this system, as this inverter system does have a lot of current output also, not just fluffy voltage, and it will light a neon extremely bright, and will also shock the living sh!t out of you.

[powercat]

  Powercat:
  I will try your suggestion tomorrow, of two panels in series, and two in parallel.

Sorry for any confusion,
take two panels and put them in series then take the other two panels and do the same thing,
So now you have two pairs of panels in series, then connect the pairs in parallel.

When I tried this combination with my 4 big panels I got the best results,
I'm not expecting you to achieve self sustaining, though it would be interesting to have an idea
on how much more efficient these types of circuits can get by recycling the light energy.