OK. Finally see Bill B's message on the archives. BB: "Of course. That's how Tesla coils create high voltage. It's a common misconception that Tesla coils depend upon a large turns-ratio to create high voltage. Nope. Instead they're based on high-Q resonance step-up phenomena. Go search google, it's called "resonant rise."
I find Bill's T-coil comparison enlightening ;-) but lacking (in the sense of apples-to-oranges) wrt to the latest experiment -- where there is NO, ZERO, NADA, signal... merely ground, or DrS's touch. Not mention -- that he is now driving 20 LEDs with the circuit. These LEDs are normally rated at ~50 mW for full brightness - so there is "effectively" one watt. Catch-22 it is "cold electricity," whatever that is, and yes it is certainly higher voltage - but apparently only registers ~200 volts, zero current in the circuit - and yes it will drive LEDs to full brightness, but cannot be converted into DC as of now. That is why "effective" power to drive LEDs is not real power, IOW has the "cold" designation. I do not know about ground connections in your area but if I can get a watt of effective power from a ground connection, then PG&E is going to see a few thousand stakes driven into the yard to replace at least some of their service (for lighting?) ! Unfortunately, all the negative insinuations (as opposed to replication attempts) have driven Ron to pull the plug, so to speak, on public input from him to the various forums which were discussing this. I hope he will come back soon, especially when and if the positive replications appear, but he also got two DoS (denial of service) attacks on his Web-server after posting the videos... Jones
