Selfrunning cold electricity circuit from Dr.Stiffler

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So now that this works how do we get rid of the battery altogether?

Burn it

Hans von Lieven

LOL 
Recycling it might be a little more eco friendly.
Maybe not as spectacular though!

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Previous quote "The circuit apparently oscillates at ~1.5MHz and uses ~32mA of current from my 12V gel battery though that figure seems to fluctuate up and down, I've seen it go up to 70mA when I was probing points with my scope but that's just temporary."

Photo is attached (turned out pretty nice in close-up).

Assuming 35 ma is the real average for the point of reference, then just 3 LEDS running at that current would account for 12 V x .035 = 420 milliwatts. You have what appears to be 20 LEDS running very brightly   
Just how brightly! is the key question to me. Things "look" very promising from here.

Great Job Amigo. 

KneeDe...

P.S. Remember the idea of comparing the brightness to a "standard candle". 1 LED fed from 12 V DC through a 1-k ohm resistor = 144 milliwatt

If each of your LEDs was as bright as a "standard candle" which uses 144 milliwatts, then every LED above the first three would be well in excess of expectations, when you are only drawing 32 ma from 12V = 384 milliwatts!

[DrZLowe7]

Just a note to all. I am just making a comment on components used. As a matter of safety do not place an electrolytic capacitor rated under 250 volts across the high voltage side of the circuit. I ounce accidentally placed a 6v capacitor in a 9v circuit and it blew up like a fire cracker. Next the diodes in circuit are not rated to handle a 200v reverse voltage. They may last a while but at sometime are due to fail. A high voltage diode should be used if you plain on running your devices for very long periods. As a standard do not operate a component at or near it maximum. I try not to exceed 50% just for longevity.
I will not be making many more posting unless asked. Or I see something some may do that is dangerous.

[hartiberlin]

Many thanks Dr.Lowe for this warning.
My 22uF electrolyte cap is rated for 350 Volts.

As the voltage at the input of the Avramenko plug ( where the 2 diodes are connected together)
is oscillationg with about 200 Volts peak to peak
versus the circuit ground, I wonder, if the diodes and the 22 uF really feel this high voltage,
cause they are practically floating on this one wire...?

It seems the oscillation is somehow rectified via the capacitance of the diodes,
so finding the best diodes for this purpose will help.
As I said the MUR 4100 diodes seemed to be better in output voltage.

But at my 22 uF cap I really have pure DC.
The diodes seem to rectify the about 2 Mhz 200 Volts p-p AC into DC
and charge up the cap accordingly,so it has pure DC voltage.

I will now going to try a "H" brigde driver with the 40106 I am using,
so to directly put the litz coil as the "center leg" in "H" bridge driver with 2 inverted drivers,
so it will get maximum current through it.
Hopefully my 40106 will not dy...

[hartiberlin]

I got a private message asking this and thought this would interest also the public:

In your last video you mentioned how the coil were no different but what you are calling coils look to be magnets, is that what they are? If not, what are they made of.

These were all these litz wire coils put onto ferrite cores.
So no magnets, just AM radio ferrite cores.

I thought first that the ferrite cores Dr. Stiffler was using would be different, which
but my old ferrite cores I already had laying around
were the same...

It just depends only on the quality Q of the resonance of the LITZ coils.
They act like high quality Q ( low bandwidth) LC tank circuits at around 1.5 to 2Mhz.