Testing the TK Tar Baby

[TinselKoala]

If permitted.....

The only claim I make about this Tar Baby of mine is that it performs just like the NERD device in all significant respects.

(RA has repeatedly denied that I am replicating her circuit. So fine... this Tar Baby is all mine, even though it is eerily similar to hers.)

Much discussion has proceeded elsewhere and I've made a few videos detailing my present work, and there will be more to come. This is the most recent:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w60ycUsuPIY

I'll be happy to take constructive criticism and suggestions. Ranters and ad hominem abusers need not bother to post, because I am the master of BIPS.

[TinselKoala]

A proposal for consideration:

I don't know if this will work and I don't have the components on hand to try it out. But I'm thinking that an optoisolator might work to isolate the FG's current path from the system, with minimum extra additions to the main circuit.

Here's what I'm thinking of, and I'd appreciate advice on whether or not it would even work, and also what effect it might have on oscillations.... and of course, inadvertent battery charging by the function generator. Well, at least it seems clear that it would eliminate that latter possibility.

[TinselKoala]

Can anyone tell me the amp-hour capacity of a Raylite 669P 12 Volt silver-calcium battery? I can't figure it out in the units they are using on the manufacturer's web site -- such as it is -- , but the best outside source I've read so far puts it at 50 A-H. Other, less reliable information has it at 40 A-H. This is a significant difference, and I don't know which one, if any, is correct.

I'd really like to get the exact figure.

[TinselKoala]

Mosfets.... how do _they_ work ? ?   

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CXWWupl0MU

(Be patient towards the end... it takes me a minute to coax them, but the oscillations do come out to play....)

[TinselKoala]

(snip) Ranters and ad hominem abusers need not bother to post, because I am the master of BIPS.

And nobody, out of over 100 page views already, deigns to comment at all? Are they _all_ ranters and abusers?

Ok... carrying on, then.

(Heh.. .just giving an example of an abusive rant. Pay no attention to the man... the very short man with the toothbrush moustaches---- behind the curtain. )