Imhotep's Radiant Oscillator Video

[Inquorate]

Australia

Jaycar is an australian company. Sheet loads of different relays. Lots clear. Whereabouts are you in Oz? I have a few relays lying around, could post some to you..

[Mutten]

another option is to hit a junkyard and pull some out of a car there.

I grabbed some nippo denso out of a toyota and you can easily pop the top cover off to see the innards.

[sucahyo]

Once you can light it up. The next step is to try to reduce the spark. Or migrate to solid state version like Bedini SSG or Joule thief.


I just replicate one wire lighting just like what everyone does:
YouTube - One wire neon lighting

Not show in the video:
- grounding it to another coil make it a bit brighter
- grounding it to battery make it a bit brighter

rank of grounding:
to other secondary part >>>> to circuit >> my body >> battery > another coil > not grounded

It is interesting that lighting with one wire do not add amp draw. In my circuit closing the secondary part add double of them.

This also show the advantage of using secondary with separate negative. We have the option to ground the wire to the primary part with half of close loop brightness with amp draw the same as with no neon load.

[dmonarch]

Relays

Hi Inquorote
Im in brisbane. Basically what i wanted to do was reproduce william crookes work. He said he fed the tube with the kick back of coil. Now obviously he had a larger voltage so what i was going to do was place one of my bedini coils in series with the relay coil and wire the circuit so it took the kick back of both of them. The hope being that i get a large voltage and one capable of crossing a spark gap. I was then going to place a capacitor in parallel with the coil on the kick back side of the circuit as tesla said it helped produce his special effect. I will ever snuff out the spark using a magnet or create a vacuum in a tube. I dont think a diode will do the job as both of the previous described methods create a clean break while with a diode there is still a physical connection.
Damo

Jaycar is an australian company. Sheet loads of different relays. Lots clear. Whereabouts are you in Oz? I have a few relays lying around, could post some to you..

[sucahyo]

Higher voltage may not be the best.

I found out today that neon would light up brightest using 110V part of my secondary, and also has the least amp draw at resonance. the 220V part has different characteristic, this part allow more spark and in turn allow more purple color. At resonance, amp draw is 0.23 Amp without load, 0.26 Amp with neon at 110V, and 0.40 Amp with neon at 220V. At resonance the brightness of neon at 110V is at least twice of neon at 220V. When not in resonance both has almost the same brightness.

I made video of it but I forgot to enable sound when recording .

[Inquorate]

Mechanical switching

@ dmonarch - I believe you're on the right track with wandering away from solid state (ie diodes) - see beshres1 thread on gray motor (or was it gray tube) thread re using cheap 12v car tyre pump to make vacuum. Nat1971a crushed his gray tube so pretty good vacuum IMO.. Also, type home made vacuum triode diode into google; there's step by step instructions on one site how to convert 12v lightbulb. Also, consider using electric motor with metal cog to switch bendy razor blade contact (other one on motor axle) for a switch; that way no electron movement like transistor or even relay. Can put neomagnets on razor to quench sparking..

If you want just pm me your address if you want a couple of relays etc...... Gotta share the love :-)

Ps looking forward to results of your tests, sounds interesting.

[sucahyo]

Will vacuum reduce spark? Or maybe we should do the mechanical switch in oil bath?


Here is the case when higher power multiplication is less efficient:
YouTube - Higher voltage multiplication may not be best

[Inquorate]

Vacuum sparks

@ Sucahyo - I intend to look at sparks in vacuums soon.

Ps thanks for the nudge re using oil bath... An electric motor should run while in oil? With oil bath and magnet on switch contacts, should stop a lot of sparking..

[sucahyo]

@Inquorate, about oil bath, I guess the challenge is to make the switch function correctly since oil will prevent the switch contact to make a contact or not making contact.

[grizli]

I cant watch ANY of Imhotep's videos on youtube: "not available in my country"



" This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by WMG. "


whats WMG ?

And if someone would post original Imhoteps circuit from "lite" video that is used for driving neon bulb from 6V battery, I would like to replicate it

Thank you

[Inquorate]

Videos

Imhotep had reposted his videos on metacafe.com

[sucahyo]

@dmonarch, please take precaution to avoid burning your relay when you use car coil. Use circuit that reduce the spark. It reduce the BEMF too, but it is a must if you don't have another way to reduce spark.

Here is mine:
YouTube - Unwanted spike in a relay

Only few seconds wont burn the relay though.

Car coil should enable you to replicate cool effect like what everyone does like:
- wireless light
- one wire lighting
- detector
- spark (I got 5mm )


@Inquorate, it seems metal ball receive the radiation better. I can see light in neon bulb connected to metal ball and short wire. Better than all type of coil that I have.

[Inquorate]

Balls

Thanks for that Sucahyo, a ball is one thing I didn't try with the neon. I wonder if that was why you were getting purple light with a transistor driven circuit?

[Bodkins]

BBC iPlayer - The Sky at Night: The Merry Dancers

great program by the BBC on the northern polar lights.
Please Watch it and read pasted what they say is happening.

[sucahyo]

Thanks for that Sucahyo, a ball is one thing I didn't try with the neon. I wonder if that was why you were getting purple light with a transistor driven circuit?

I also get purple light when using cable too. I think we can only get purple light if we have high BEMF.

Using transistors, we can push it higher because we don't have to deal with spark. I just try my car coil with relay and it show neon purple when using spark gap, but also big spark at the relay. And when I disconnect the cable from the terminal, it show green purple big spark with rather loud pop.

It seems tesla switch (attached) configuration is better if we want to charge battery with relay, no spark but charge as good. We can also see which part of the neon electrode that glow to see which battery is being charged. If both electrode glow I guess both battery being charged.

BBC iPlayer - The Sky at Night: The Merry Dancers

great program by the BBC on the northern polar lights.
Please Watch it and read pasted watch they say is happening.

I can't. Can you tell the summary?