William Beaty wrote:
They somehow found a small incandescent bulb which contains hard vacuum.
Stick it on a Tesla Coil circuit so the whole bulb sits at high AC
voltage, but also the filament lights up. And what do they observe?
Weird inexplicable forces! But they wrongly assume that they've
discovered something totally outside of physics, when I'm pretty sure that
they've just duplicated Tesla's single-electrode x-ray generator (and used
it to change their Tesla coil into a VandeGraaff.) AC to DC, plus fierce
x-rays too, so if I'm right, the lightbulb experiment above should make a
geiger counter go crazy.
No need for a Tesla coil to do this. Er, rather, no need for a lightning
bolt generator sized deal that is probably just an attempted extension
of the experimenter's manhood.
Take a pair of 12V ignition coils, these are GP Sorenson parts,
available from Advance Auto Parts and such places. The can-type coils.
Connect the low voltage terminals in antiparallel (i.e., - on one to +
on the other, and vice versa.)
HV output can be taken now from the two HV terminals, which will be out
of phase.
To drive this thing, go get a 120VAC 600W light dimmer from the hardware
store. Ignore the green ground lead, its for safety. I don't do safety.
Hot from 120VAC mains goes to one lead of the dimmer, the other lead
goes to one side of a motor run capacitor, say, 440VAC at 30uF. (NEVER
NEVER use motor start capacitors) The other end of this cap goes to one
leg of the low voltage inputs of the two coils (one set of + and -). The
other + and - leg goes to line neutral. Crank 'er up and you get some
nice, high power sparks. Put a 60kV diode the HV terminal of each coil,
one facing cathode out, the other anode out. There's your HV supply.
(If you don't have a 60kV diode, get 20 of part # R6000 from
http://www.allelectronics.com Put two strings of ten in series, there
you go)
Put the negative output side to the filament of a light bulb, and the
positive side to an electrode somewhere near the glass of the bulb. If
you jack the voltage up high enough, the negative electrode is
enough...you can leave the other one alone. Most bulbs give you a nice
blue/lavender glow inside from the backfill gases. Nitrogen and argon, I
reckon. Maybe some other stuff, varying by the company that made them,
be it the Long Duck Dong company, or their competitor, Sum Dum Fuk. All
made in China anyhow.
Find a low wattage bulb, like used in refrigerators for the magic light
that has helped millions of people worldwide be able to see what they're
getting for that midnight snack. Tubular bulbs like used in music stand
lights work well too. Buy a bunch of different kinds, from different
brands. Some of them will not fluoresce in the usual way; the glass will
glow green. It's interesting, but be aware, you are irradiating yourself.
I got a Geiger counter to register about 10 times background through a
wooden door, about 20 feet from the running device. Closer you get, more
counts. At about 6 feet from the thing, sounded like static on a TV. If
you are courageous enough to stand near it for a few seconds to
experiment with this, you will find you can move the green spots on the
glass face of the bulb around with a magnet; they are in beams.
Another experiment I did once, which I will not explain exactly how to
do, as I figure someone will kill themselves, used a five stage Marx
generator driving one of these tubes. The green glow from each flash was
bright enough to cast shadows. Once, I ran it too long and the filament
began to glow yellow, probably from electrons being ripped out of it.
Have fun if you dare. (maniacal laughter)
--Kyle
P.S., please don't anyone write me and tell me I'm exposing myself to
radiation. I already know that. I take precautions, and limit exposure
time. We're all gonna die some day in any case. But if its sooner rather
than later, hey; I'd rather die in the USA than the NAU.
