Selfrunning cold electricity circuit from Dr.Stiffler

[forest]

I wanted to say :
Well,my experiments are NOT so striking. Sorry for a typo

[PCB]

I remove the neon from the SEC15-3 board and the output of the choke is connected to a remote AV plug+neon via a single wire. The remote neon is lit until I close my hand around the single wire. When my hand holds the single wire the neon is extinguished. What is being blocked by my hand?

When you touch the wire you are capacitively coupling the signal to ground. If you run the exciter into say a 4ft piece of wire to an AV-plug on the end the effect will be more pronounced when you touch the wire. The are a lot of interesting things you can do with the AV-plug. You will find that if you connect a small cap to ground from one or other side of the Neon/LED you will boost the output.

1. I have the exciter implemented on a prototyping board. If I take the output from the inductor and connect it one hole away from the AV-plug the diodes still light (i.e. there is no electrical connection to the plug). Each hole that I move the connection away from the plug leads to a diminishing output from the plug.

2. If you connect the AV-plug to a UHF/VHF antenna via coax you will find that you can can light one or more LEDS provided one leg of the plug is connected to ground.

@DrStiffler

You asked me to explain how this thing works...perhaps facetiously..First, I believe that its really all about the AV-plug and the the exciter (which is really nothing more than an oscillator outputing reactive power) .... I have not had time to conduct any of your electrolysis experiments using a single diode. As I have already stated, the two diodes form a half wave rectifier when a nonlinear device like a LED or neon is connected on the output (any of these types of device form a regulator) which creates a DC potential determined by their breakdown voltage. The AC component can be used to drive further plugs in series but at each stage the ripple voltage as it should correctly be called diminishes in magnitude, so there is limit to the number of stages. Indeed, the AV-plug is very good at capturing even small amounts of reactive power as my antenna example above illustrates. What I find interesting is that the input to the plug from the antenna is a pretty decent square wave, the fundamental frequency of which is 60 hz (mains voltages), but the plug must also be summing up the odd RF frequency harmonics as well to give me a square wave. If I had the means I'd like to connect the plug to a electret to see what kind of power levels I could pull from the air as it were.

[Lattice333]

Dr Stiffler and friends,

thanks for your replies to my last question.

Dr Stiffler your comments about lighting a neon with only one leg held are facinating. Has anyone had successfully replicated?

The photos attached are a standard SEC15-3 copy. I removed one half of the AV plug and soldered the neon bulb to the incoming cathode of the remaining diode (connected to a choke). The neon receives AC and both filaments glow.

The first two photos show one neon leg connected to circuit and the other connected to aluminium plate.

The other photos show neon lit with only one leg connected to circuit. The other neon leg is disconnected. In this case the neon appears to be lit due to a tiny amount of capacitive coupling through the neon glass and rubber gloves to my fingers. The tuning is critical and the neon glows where ever it is touched - like a plasma light. The power supply reading is unchanged whether neon is lit or not.

Can anyone please assist understanding how the neon can light with one leg connected to the circuit?

thanks

Lattice333

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@Lattice333

I can confirm that the neon does indeed light in the circuit configurations you have posted. You appear to have the neon directly connected to output of the oscillator and not through the diode, either way I believe that this is nothing more mysterious that capacitive couple to ground (earth) of the free end of the wire, adding a metal plate will increase the capacitive coupling. Connect the free end to ground and it should still stay lite but much brighter.

[MADMARV74]

 I'm building my hho driver board and on the high frequency side there was suppose to be a 200 nF 16v capacitor in the cricuit. I placed a big order and receive my components from ....... But I'm missing the 200nF cap. Does anyone think I can place 2 100 nF capacitors in series and get same results as 200nF?

**Edit by Moderator**
Are you on the wrong thread?

Hook in series you get 50nF, two 100's in parallel will give your 200.