Mmmm... are you confused or floccinaucinihilipilificating the phenomenon? ;-)
Michel ----- Original Message ----- From: "William Beaty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "vortex" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 3:24 AM Subject: [Vo]:"Cold" electricity, I'm confused... > > If you build these single wire-circuits with diodes back to back, they > behave just as shown. I've made these things using flyback transformers, > but the explanation is totally conventional, and I thought well-known. > > With high-freq AC, the space around the wire acts as a capacitor to > ground. It's an old Nikola Tesla trick: don't forget that the large > corona discharge a the top of a Plasma Sphere (or any Tesla coil) is fed > by a single wire! Or, if you connect one terminal of a fluorescent tube > to the output of a Tesla coil, would you be shocked if that tube were to > light up brightly? > > So now I'm confused. What's the big deal? How is lighting a bulb at the > tip of a Tesla coil so different than creating a brush discharge at the > tip of a Tesla coil? > > And... if you place any metal object near the "floating" loads connected > to the HV terminals, the effect works FAR better. For high frequency AC, > conductive objects behave like a ground, with the grounding effect > improved if the object is larger. For example, connect an NE-2 bulb to > the top of a small Tesla coil, and it lights up dimly. Now wave your hand > near it, and it gets far brighter. Yet your body isn't connected to > ground. Well maybe your body isn't the size of the Earth, but compared to > the tiny metal parts of the NE-2 bulb, your body looks like "ground." > > To make the effect shown in the video get very weak, just trim the diode > leads way down so there is no floating "antenna." Or to make the effect > much larger, connect a foot-long alligator cliplead to the floating leads > of the diodes. > > > > > > > On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Jones Beene wrote: >> Hold onto your hats ... We are getting close to Wonderland, Alice >> >> >> >> To silence the skeptics, Dr. Stiffler has just now added the Faraday >> cage to his circuit.... >> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZOxvveTWPA >> >> >> Things are getting curiouser and curiouser... >> >> Jones >> > > (((((((((((((((((( ( ( ( ( (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 >
