Some time ago I purchased all five noble gas tubes of ~ 1 ft discharge length. Of these I have found helium to be of special interest. It seems readily adaptable to produce noble gas discharges that appear to emit EM, or special radio waves that emit no specific frequency, but receptors around the gas discharge appear to vibrate at their own resonant frequency.
The production of "radio wave" noble gas tubes is somewhat of an elusive business. An ordinary neon tube from a ferromagnetic voltage rise transformer, such as the current limited NST does not produce any signicant EM that I have measured. The "gas must be free to vibrate" to produce the effect. A Ferromagnetic transformer produces a somewhat "stiff" voltage source, thus displaying no observable EM and may not allow the gas discharge itself to vibrate, that seemingly produces these effects by visual observation of the gas discharge itself Resonant sources of voltage however can be set up so that when oppositely sourced phasings of series resonant voltage rise have an intervening neon gas load between them, they can ignite the neon. Short 4 inch discharge neon tubes have been used in this regard in numerous studies over the years. These tubes are short enough to measure the voltage across them without exceeding the typical 750VAC digital voltage limitation. They can display 500 VAC levels during bulb ignition, but prior to the bulbs ignition the per-ignition voltage may be quite higher. In fact all the noble gas tubes are quite "picky" about their discharge parameters. In working with the 4 inch neon tubes it is quickly seen that the voltage across the tube is not the sole parameter necessary to make the bulb ignite. The source of voltage must also be "current limited" so that the bulb can accept the amount of current across the oppositely phased series resonances. This was first seen in the early 1990's using dual long series column sets of ten 11 mh,1.3 ohm 500 ft/14 gauge coils in series. This can make .15 H per side that can be resonated at alternator frequencies nearing 500 hz, so that two of the phases produce 750 volts between them. Yet this will not ignite the 4 inch neon bulb between the potentials. However allow the bulb to "ballasted" by a 3/8 inch ferrite width in series, and the bulb will discharge. In those early days of discovery it seemed very easy to show that EMF was coming off both the neon and ferrite sources, by placing a scope monitored inductor in the vicinity of space around it. Later in this lifetime, the massive coil assets were repeatedly stolen during incarceration, ect... but during the re-construction years I have managed to reconstruct a three phase coil 14 GAUGE 25 mh SYSTEM OF 2.6 OHMS PER PHASE, using 6 of the 500 ft 14 gauge coils stacked as two in series, with each column adjacent to its neighboring phase for mutual induction between the phasings. It was found that even though now only two of ten coils in series per phase were being used, the q factor of resonant voltage rise was almost the same. The same conditions of limiting a neon discharge by ferrite needed to be employed, but now no EM could be measured from either magnet or neon discharge. This is why I began to consider the subject elusive and very frustrating. Last winter the first replications of 60 hz resonant circuits from the 480 lb 23 wire gauge theft were reconstructed. An Essex Wire purchase of five 70 lb coils; 350 lbs of 23 gauge wire/ for 1400 dollars seemed wise when wire prices were this low on first offer. Of this initially twelve lb coils of 140 ohms were rewound, having some 2.4 H. These could prduce 1000 volts between them and yet not fire the 4 inch neon. A 3/8 in. ferrite ballasting would enable this neon to fire, but it soon produced a white discharge instead of orange, and when shut off both the tube and the ferrite burned ones fingers. Once again no EM is recorded. Finally four of the five 70 lb/23 gauge wire length coils of ~ eight miles are completely rewound. They have a resistance of 840 ohms, and an air core inductance near 60 H. Their reactive current limit registers 5-6 ma @ 120 VAC wall outlet. It is this kind of current limited system that can readily display neon, or for that matter any noble gas discharge between the inversely phased series resonances now tuned at 60 hz. The stand alone opposite resonant voltage rise for each side can be measured by placement of amperage meters at the LC midpoints, and the ratio between the resonant amperage conduction and the 5-6 ma reactive conduction considered as the active Q factor of voltage rise for each side; where here the standard grounded 120VAC house outlet is chosen. If the 4 inch neon is placed between the resonant potentials, it blinks very rapidly. In turn the blinking neon process can be understood as the quenching of the resonant current as a consequence of the amperage demand of the neon itself. Very real alternator frequency demonstrations can be made of the portion of neon discharge that displays the so called negative resistance portion of discharge. This is generally noted to occur with the smallest of voltage that can be used to ignite the bulb; but it is this discharge that readily shows the EM effect. Again this is due to using the smallest amount of voltage to produce the ionization effect so that it can vibrate freely without the imposed voltage muffling or damping that free vibration. In the demonstration made years ago; the alternator phase is connected to a 64/1 voltage rise of a pole pig transformer whose secondary is connected to this short 4 inch neon. That neon is ballasted by a plexiglass capacity in series to limit its secondary current to the permissible levels dictated to it by design (30 ma). The capacitor can be adjusted so that it permits barely any current to issue through the bulb. Then slightly more capacity can be added so that the bulb discharge somewhat stabilizes. Now three voltage meters are placed in the circuit, one across the bulb, one across the capacity, and one across both in series on the outside. Here it was shown that the voltage across the outside was lower then the inside voltages. The actual "inductive reactance" of the gas discharge itself was being cancelled to some degree by an added capacity in series and a lower outside voltage enables a higher inside voltage to exist. This is only cited as a past example for the circumstances here differ. It is seen that once a gas discharge is started between the potentials, the potential is withdrawn to a lower level as to cease ionization of the bulb, and then the bulb is reignited where it takes so many cycles of series resonant voltage rise to once again ignite the discharge. For the helium 12 in. bulb this blinking is quite incessant. A 4 by 6 by 1 inch SrFe magnet is placed in series with the helium bulb to stabilize the blinking. This bulb then can show the resonant frequency of inductors placed around the steadied discharge; exactly as if it were displaying all frequencies at once, or the so called MWO, or Multiple Wave Oscillator. The input coils @ 120VAC only consume 20-30 ma on each side. Sincerely Harvey D Norris Pioneering the Applications of Interphasal Resonances http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/teslafy/
