Hello Everyone, I'm a computer teacher and I'm new to the group. I've been trying to find anything on the internet to help me design a home made radiometer for...
So, what has a better chance of actually producing energy; this piezoelectric thing, or a farnsworth fusor? I still think it would be interesting to put some...
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Hi all, 1st post, like the group tho, just got a plasma globe at garage sale, 5 bucks, interesting for about 5 minutes, took it apart, the power supply does...
... apart, ... just ... about a ... A flyback can drive a huge globe, like two feet in diameter. They probably use a standard transformer for the small globes....
... design a ... you ... My experiment: get a radiometer, snap off the glass tube to let the air in through the bottom, then put it in a vacuum chamber and use...
I've done that in the past with many plasma globe drivers and they've all lasted about 10 mins. Every single one ended up with the flyback/ferrite trasformer...
... The radiometers I've seen are spherical and thin glass. Maybe they count on the thin glass having little inertia if it breaks, because other vacuum...
Hey! I've just been reminded that the UFO festival in Oregon is a week from this Saturday! 6th Annual UFO Festival, McMenamins Oregon (it's S. of Eugene) ...
Hi guys, As we all know, most people power their tesla coil with a neon line transformer. I am wondering if there can be any other substitution for that? -...
Sam. You can use just about any HV source to energise a Tesla coil. I've used flyback and ignition coil power supplies of which the circuit diagrams are all...
You are talking about a spark gap oscillator based Tesla coil. There are quite a few solid state oscillator Tesla coils out there on the web. Look in the Links...
Hi, I need to dig through my files but I have the plans to build one the "old fashoned" way. It came out of a 1960's popular electronics magazine. IE: Using...
I found this on one of the news sites I visit and thought it might interest other mad scientists. Stephanie Weippert BOSTON (AP) - Attention, time travelers:...
I see what Steve's saying. There are plenty of designs for solid state Tesla coils around (using MOSFETS and switch mode PSU ICs). However, if you want to go...
Dear Sam, You can find much info on the internet googling on "plasma globe", electrostorm, "flyback transformer driver" and similar. You can make a simple unit...
Guys, I have a question about fluorescent lamps. I know this may sound too simple to some of you, but I'm really curious about it's "weird" behavior. I just...
The coatings of phospers and rare earths used in the tubes, or in some cases, very small rodents on tiny exercise wheels attached to miniature dynamos built...
I do believe that globalwarming does exist. I remember reading a Nat Geographic Issue which showed a graph on the average world temperature, from 1900-1999(or...
Even if you pull the slightly glowing bulb out of the fixture, it will continue to glow. This is phosphorescence. A fluorescent lamp is a gas-discharge lamp...
It has been warming up ever since the mini ice age. Before that, it was cooling down. We can expect more cycles in the future. It still isn't as warm as it...
where can I get the rodent powered lamps? Sounds like this is something that should be brought to the dept of energy as a substitute for oil based energy...
You do know that any good alternative power source for automotive propulsion ever patented has been purchased outright by the auto manufacturers and oil ...
HMM!??! Are you saying i could "patent" my ideas for rodent power methane, rodent muscle power geared up to move cars and planes...and soon thereafter an...
I've noticed the same, but never really tried to figure it out. Have you tried unplugging the tube from the lamp? Does it still glow? If you place a plastic...
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