[NewCandle] SEC - Strategic Erg Command

[Nick Reiter]

Hi Jones and all,

Some brief replies back to key points:

> OK let me ask again - unless I missed one of you
> messages - do you use 
> an open wire, Avramenko type of geometry ? or did
> you follow the Thomas 
> schematic literally (no open wires)?

*******I really am not 100% what you mean by open
wire, but I am using the Thomas oscillator circuit as
shown on Stiffler's "Drivers" page, and the free lead
of the secondary terminal - which would correspond to
a Tesla Coil secondary I guess - is connected to an AV
plug circuit - 2 fast Si diodes.  So yes, I infer that
I am using the Avramenko Plug (err...Nick Reiter and
Sam Faile 1996) connection geometry.


> Don't forget that Ron Stiffler and several others
> have put a few hundred 
> hours into this so far, working out the small
> details. This could be 
> merely a case of needing a few adjustments to your
> basic setup.

**********I'm not tearing it down anytime soon. 
believe me, I saw my share of oddities with grounds of
different sorts, back when we were lighting LEDs off
of aerials and antennas (minus the oscillators;)

> My problem is that I am working with another party,
> who also has his own 
> views, so it is not often practical to try to
> confirm everything that 
> Stiffler does. DrS is a very fast worker and tries
> many things without 
> necessarily going back to all the ones which show
> promise.

*********Far be it from me to dictate another's modus
operandi, but I find myself a bit frustrated at his
lack of basic developmental protocol and engineering
methodology.  What exactly is Dr. Stiffler a Doctor
of...?

> If we (this is not including DrS, as he has
> abandoned this approach) can 
> ever get the "negistor" oscillator up to a higher
> frequency, then that 
> may make a huge difference on the primary side. For
> whatever unknown 
> reason, there does seem to be something very
> surprising happening at ~12 
> MHz.
> 
> Why 12 MHz? or is it simply an artifact of that
> inductor? ... not clear 
> yet. As you know, the open FCC range at 13.56 MHz is
> suspiciously close, 
> but this has been ruled out as a entry way of stray
> input.

***********I have a 13.56 MHz generator, and one of my
plans was to try powering the AV plug and LED banks
off of that, to look for luminous comparisons or
anomalies.

Jones, in your other posting, you asked what LEDs I
was using.  I purchased all three colors from
LEDSupply Inc:  www.LEDSupply.com

The spec sheet for the whites is here:

http://www.ledsupply.com/l1-0-w5th15-1.php

The spec sheet for the greens is here:

http://www.ledsupply.com/l1-0-g5th15-1.php

And the spec sheet for the oranges is here:

http://www.ledsupply.com/l4-0-o5th30-1.php

I honestly believe you should be able to see for
yourself how little current it takes to light an LED,
as long as you are making the Vfwd potential.  Take
one of your high performer LEDs, and build a simple
circuit with a pot, a battery pack, and a
milliampmeter or microammeter.  Or use a variable
regulated supply.  When you get close to the threshold
of Vfwd, you will get light output at a few microamps.
 It will be dim, of course, but by the time you get to
a half milliamp or so, you will find the brightness to
be considerable.  Of course it takes a steady hand
and/or a 10 turn pot, because as you increase V just
slightly, you begin to avalanch, with no series
resistor in place.  If your pot is in series, that
helps obviously.

Still, I stand behind my claim - LEDs are junctions...
you have to control the current, or in the case of the
AV plug output into a series string, the current
becomes a function of the available potential.

My time on this may be sporadic here for the next week
or so for das Yule stuff, but I'll report as I can.

N


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Adorned in the masters' loving art, She lies;
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