Tsss, watching TV too much and too close ;)
Nice experiment, even though I haven't understood what you were looking for.
Michel
----- Original Message -----
From: "Frederick Sparber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "vortex-l" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 3:18 AM
Subject: FW: Re: Coby CX1 TV Modification for (*e-) Electronium Search
So much for Phase 1
Suggestion box?
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 3/7/2006 6:33:48 PM
Subject: Re: A little more progress
Well, if the ~ 3-electron-mass particles exist, Fred, I'm seeing
no sign of them in our experiment.
The experimental rig we designed is working just according to
plan. The modified vertical deflection gives a neat horizontal line
which can be deflected near the upper edge of the screen by
driving it with about 1.35 to 1.4+ VDC. With the brightness
turned all the way down, the trace is just about right.
I was working with the trace about 3/8 inch from the top
of the screen - I had covered it (as you suggested) with a strip
of electrician's tape. This masked the electron trace very
well, but - as I feared - the backlight from the trace lighting
the rear sides of the tube gave a very faint background glow
to the screen. You need not "dark adapt" your eyes for long
before you realize that this unwanted glow will tend to limit
the sensitivity.
Still, I'll guess that I could have picked up a "rogue" trace even
one thousandth the brightness of the main electron trace.
No such trace could be detected (by me) after several minutes
of screen watching.
If I tried to boost the trace brightness, the result was just to
increase the background light and it seems that this is a losing
variation.
As I mentioned earlier, You could probably duplicate this
setup by doing no more than snipping the vertical leads and
substituting a single 1.5 volt battery for the vertical drive.
Come to think about it - a lower voltage nicad cell might be
even better and would require no additional series resistance.
