How the Gray Tube Circuit Works

[turbo]

They are both the same thing.

1.A capacitor stops conducting when the voltage reaches the same level as the source voltage.

2.Therefore a charged capacitor does not pass DC.

Make up your mind.

Then you start to talk about what i am missing...

you seem to have missed Tesla's concept of continuous current to provide oscillations for energy conversions, without completely discharging the capacitor, I am not surprised that you have jumped in to defend Electronics 101.

Don't do that!

Also this:

I also use capacitors to smooth out the DC ripple current from rectified power supplies, obtaining a continuous supply of DC current.

In this case the capacitors DO NOT pass DC current.
In fact if they would, we would be dealing with a short circuit.
In this case the capacitors store energy, and release energy when the supply voltage drops below the capacitor voltage.

That's a diffrent thing, and in fact, this works BECAUSE capacitors block DC when charged to supply voltage.
Like i said otherwise it would be a dead short.

Marco.

[stanis]

See this may be he has figured out how the Gray Tubes works

He is doing the same thing that Gray demonstrated in 70's

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxMf3n5lxsU

Stanis