[NewCandle] Cold Electricty

[Nick Reiter]

Good morning, all,

Thanks for the heads up Jones.  I perused the four
videos you indicated.  Is the fellow narrating the
sequence the inventor?

Several things come to mind, free associatively:

I can identify with the puzzling role of ground
connections.  They were pretty essential when I had
played with lighting LEDs from what Sam Faile and I
used to call "micro-inductive" large area antennas. 
You can also light an LED dimly by connecting leads to
different remote earth grounds.

Now I may not have been seeing things correctly, or
missed it, but I didn't see a point in the four movie
clips where the signal generator was entirely gone
from the circuit - just the one side of the signal
line.  At 12.8  MHZ, couldn't just about anything be
coupling RF current to the circuit, particularly the
capacitance of an aluminum pie pan?

Now this may seem petty, but lighting an LED is
different than lighting an LED BRIGHTLY.  In the video
clips, the white LEDs do look punchy... however how
much of that is the video camera?  To a human eye
observer, how bright would they really be?  I know
from photographing LEDs that depending on the camera
of course, really dim LEDs can BLAZE like hellfire on
film or digital.  Or video.  The difference between a
dim LED and a truly bright one can be the difference
between a few micro-amps and 20mA or so - covering
three orders of magnitude!  With a wad of foil, a
ground lead, and a couple of diodes, you can get an
LED to light up if you are anywhere near a source of
60cy e-field, like a wall outlet or cord.  Capacitive
coupling from our e-ocean is hard to avoid.

Zero current through LEDs, or current below the level
of the meter being used?  10 microamps at 12.8MHz, oy
veh, how to measure!?

NOW, that being said, I does confess to myself and all
that lighting 20 LEDs in parallel would be something
different entirely.  So by no means am I passing
case-closed judgement on this.  It's fascinating
stuff, even if barium ferrite talk brings up ghosts of
the Sparky Sweet era I recall.

When my jumbo hydrogen bucket finally pisses itself
out on the back steps, I may have to find some
ferrites myself...  heaven knows I have enough of an
LED museum to select goodies from.

N


--- Jones Beene <jonesb9 at pacbell.net> wrote:

> --- Nick 
> 
> I am trying to put something together, but first did
> you see the video? 
> 
> Watching the evolution of this project is
> instructive,
> as it has evolved significantly in the past week.
> 
> Go to YouTube and search for "mrh2o2", and watch at
> least the last 4 videos on "cold" electricity from
> #3
> to #7.
> 
> I have access to his privates web-site and am trying
> to get the schematic (Now very simple!!) to Keith to
> post here. He is now driving 20 white LEDs with the
> circuit which needs a signal for startup, but after
> that can be switched to ground and no signal.
> 
> I assume that the cores, once they start ringing,
> continue to do so for a short time. 12.3 MHz seems
> to
> give the most effect but there seems to be ZERO
> current across the LEDs.
> 
> Jones
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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