High Efficiency Lamp Driver

[joellagace]

If your worried about reactance you can do the same thing with a flyaback dollar store fly zapper connected to a 1.5 volt supply. With less than 50ma as well. You get 1kc spark gap. I feed this gap into a microwave transformer connected in reverse and rectify the low voltage side to DC pulses and it charges batteries and super caps the same darn way with the same amount of current. Just though i'd offer a way of doing it with less parts and more simple and without a HV spark gap!

Food for thought.

[joellagace]

I also run inverters to isolate some projects from the mains but I still need "mains". I tested reactance and it works fine with even cheep inverters! So have at it!

[citfta]

Hi again.  As I said you have a nice circuit and it is very efficient.  But you asked for an explanation as to why others have suggested it was not a good idea to connect it to mains power.  And I have tried to give you that explanation.  I agree that connected to an inverter or other source of AC it is a good way be charge batteries or light lamps.  Please don't be discouraged by some of the comments.  Unfortunately you will find that on any forum there will always be the naysayers.  Good luck in your search for free energy.


Again, respectfully,
Carroll

[joellagace]

Yeah and for some reason all those naysayers are the Tesla Coil expert specialists builders complaining about the potential safety issues with my circuits. insinuating its so "bad" its a liability even for the host to allow it?? Strange coming from them. You would think,. I guess you could say the very same to them no? What if everyone started to build and use tesla coils and ran them from the mains? Would that not become troublesome all the potential backEMF for the electric company? I know you can minimize and filter etc but things can indeed go wrong with the slight issue here! Every coil builder knows!!! But we talk about Tesla coils and the construction and methods all the time! This can really kill you? Not a liabiliy for the host? Double standards. More like they didn't come up with the idea first so they got to poo poo all over it lol. Because... Is that not how Tesla accidently blow up a power plant doing this? So even the top expert can sometimes "Screw" up with these coils, Does that mean that all Tesla coil and tesla coil PSU units be removed from hosting because you know should be a risk right?

Just pointing out what I feel is a double standard.

[ramset]

Joel
40 MA in 15 Watts out is miraculous !


Here in open source research forums ( you will notice no advertisements on either forum)


We need to be absolutely sure ( 100 %) that such a circuit does not cost utility company
In any way !
Your sincerity is commendable!
Our concerns are to our hosts ..and not bringing problems their way ... zero budget for problems !
Actually such issues could be shoehorn towards major legal issues at this small venue!


And quite certain the legal team at big venues (you tube etc) would hold themselves harmless with their terms of service agreements ( and their ten deep legal teams would surely make certain costs went to presenter )


Are you 100% certain this miracle is completely provable ( legal and not grid dependent?( no cost to grid ?)
As example many countries still have single wire earth return grid systems,
Funny things can happen unaware with an all encompassing grid !
Once watched a man weld with just a "staked ground cable" out in a field !
He had one buried hot Cable ( on a knife switch in shop) and just hammered in a ground
To weld in the field


However
We sure need this and all the variations !


I would run towards scrutiny...to be certain!
PLEASE!!

Respectfully
Chet K