On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Jones Beene wrote: > First. It's strange that for some reason I never get > messages posted by our moderator-- and Bill's post > still is not in the archives.
Yeah, I notice that lots of messages aren't making it into that archive. Also eskimo.com keeps dropping off the www for many hours at a time. They've been dealing with large amounts of DOS attacks recently, so maybe it's even crashing, and losing outgoing mail. > Let me just say this for now: that the only difference > between this and the similar phenomenon of the Tesla > coil firing a LED is 19,999 volts ;-). What? But his coil is clearly putting out a huge voltage. And with resonant coils, you can get way more volts than the turns-ratio would imply. "Resonant rise" is created by high-Q coils driven at a tuning peak, where the higher the Q of the coil, the higher the voltage step up ratio. > Obviously that creates further identity problems, but > I am leaning towards the solar neutino flux as being > the 'real power' and that the LED is being stimulated > to operate as a gateway for forcing electron > anti-nuetrino "oscillations". Since he's driving these circuits with about one watt from a power supply, why is there any mystery about where the LED gets its power? At high voltage and many MHz frequency, the open space between a couple of wires has enough capacitance to act like a good conductor. Current is probably very small, but high volts at low current can easily give you a few watts. (((((((((((((((((( ( ( ( ( (O) ) ) ) ) ))))))))))))))))))) William J. Beaty SCIENCE HOBBYIST website billb at amasci com http://amasci.com EE/programmer/sci-exhibits amateur science, hobby projects, sci fair Seattle, WA 425-222-5066 unusual phenomena, tesla coils, weird sci
