Heron's Fountain

[TinselKoala]

So now you are spamming the thread with my videos? The videos I posted to YT on August 25th and August 24th? When your Modified Heron's Fountain thread was started on August 30? And this thread was started on August 29th?

I see you are also lying about it on my YT comments. You should be ashamed of yourself.

He's actually ripping me off. Flames me in the forum then takes credit for my discovery.
This is why working openly can be a bad idea.
    Bessler2011   51 minutes ago

You are a blatant liar. Look at the dates. And if you claim that your silly "continuous flowing water" thread has anything to do with this, you will again be lying through your rotten teeth.

[broli]

Pressure increases when flow decreases, isn't that Fluid Dynamics 101? What's all this "my invention" fuss about on an open source forum?

[TinselKoala]

Please note, everyone, that Johnny874's drawing of nested chambers was posted here in this thread on August 31, and my videos showing my TinselZed nested chambers were posted to YouTube beginning on August 23, and I even have one also posted to YT showing the chambers on August 22, but this one is still private, along with the one on August 25 where I show the full disassembly and all the parts clearly... that one is still private too.

In any case, I can prove that I used the design incorporating separate chambers in the reservoir more than a week BEFORE johnny874 ever posted anything about it.  In other words, he lies when he claims that I got the idea from him. IN FACT.... a very good case could be made that the truth is just the reverse.

This would be a good time and place for you to start apologizing to me, Jimbo, and retracting your lying claims that I in any way "ripped you off" or took any inspiration at all from your silly drawings.

[Pirate88179]

TK and all:

I used an Edison based black light bulb next to my fountain and....the fluid does glow, but not enough for my camera to pick-up like you can see with the naked eye.  My guess is that, the paint I used was cheap and already diluted, and I have it diluted quite a bit in the fountain.  I will purchase another bottle of the paint and add it to the mix and see what happens.

What I am hoping for is a nice effect that will show up on the cam.  I want folks to be able to clearly see the output from the fountain and also to create something cool to have running in my living room.  I will keep you all posted.  The cool thing is that on my video, I say it drains in about a minute but...in looking at the video timer from when it starts, to when it stops, it actually runs for 3.5 minutes.  I didn't realize that until I watched the video on youtube.  Not bad for using 16 oz bottles.

Bill

PS  Johnny, Alan, Jim or whatever, is still on ignore.  It works well.  Blocks pm's too.

[Magluvin]

Hey Bill

What color paint are you using?  I find that greens and yellows are the brightest.

Used to do my own posters for my room as a teen. Was a Bruce Lee fanatic. YinYangs, dragons, silly stuff. But my room came alive with the black lights. ;]

There is stuff called glow powder, that if exposed to sunlight for 2 min. it will continue to glow for up to around 16 hours.  Was doing experiments with seeing if ultra violet leds could make the powder glow enough to produce output from the solar panel. Since the powder persists in light output, I figured that what ever the solar panel could produce could be stored and periodically drive the leds to energize the powder layer on the face of the panel..  That was the idea. But I found that the powder would glow even brighter if the led was continuously shining. When the led was turned off, the brightness of the powder on that spot of area slowly settled to the nominal glow brightness that lasts for the hours claimed.

The materials were kept by my boss when I quit there, and havnt gotten to getting more yet.  But with the joule theif or even Lasersabers latest circuit, the idea may have some hope. The powder does help to increase the output of the panel as compared to leds alone. It also helps in having more consistent light coverage on the panels surface.


Ok off track here. ;]  If you look into it, contact the people to see if it will mix with water(if they know) also settling might be an issue. But I think that might be an issue for the paint also eventually.  I believe it was $20 an ounce for the powder and different colors have different output times. I think once you get it glowing and add ultraviolet leds, you can get unusual effects.

Like if the powdered water is glowing already and you have a UV led aimed close to a column of water, if the flow of the water moves, a trail of 'brighter water' will show as flowing in that direction. ;]

just ideas and info. 

MaGs