converting cosmic rays to electricity comparing to T.H.Moray's device

[PARAV]

Hi Yellow,
Check this giegercounter circuit     www.uzzors2k.4hv.org/index.php?page=geigercounter    I believe it utilizes a camera type circuit in it. Have a look -and good luck.
Paul

Hi Yellowsnow2 -
Sorry I forgot to tell you about the nifty little DIY kits you can order from Electronic Goldmine -- "www.goldmine-elec-products.com"--and check out their Geiger counters you can buy assembled and or in kit form --The one you might be interested in, is kit no. -or part no. "G18410".  Uses a 9 volt battery and it puts  out, --I think, about 450 volts for the GM tube--check it out.
Let us know what you think about these units as , I too! am thinking down the same lines as you are on this ----keep up the good work.-Paul

[yellowsnow2]

Thanks for the suggestions for a power source guys.

But I realized I could make a completely adjustable power source from my neon transformer. I am designing it to be adjustable between 500-1200v. Since my tube is crude and only uses air, it will most likely need more voltage than commercial ones. I read an old study into Geiger tubes and the different gases effect the recovery time and voltage needed, mainly.  I used this free circuit design simulator to figure it out http://qucs.sourceforge.net/

I also have most of the stuff needed to try this electron avalanche drive circuit. http://www.google.com/patents/US20110188278  Except for the commutator.

My megohm resistors should be coming in today. And my megohm potentiometer should be 2 or 3 days. This will make an adjustable voltage divider circuit for the neon transformer. 

Here is a DIY ion chamber (low power in, less avalanche action) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfVBW622Vbs

[Davi]

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[Davi]

Hi  all!   

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[yellowsnow2]

So I quickly looked over this kapnadza stuff. If they are using a gas discharge tube and making fancy waves for it, then it seems to be basically the same concept as the patent I link in my last comment.  If that is the case then they are doing it the hard way. Instead of doing all that work to make it solid state, they should just make a commutator like in the patent I linked. The commutator is an adjustment for duration and timing of the current to the spark gap/gas discharge tube to tweak it for best Townsend avalanche action. Then once you find the sweet spot you scope it and reproduce it in solid state.

Im sticking to the Geiger tube testing first.