Carrigan, Ken wrote:
> Jer,
> Pertaining to lighting a light bulb with RF, I remember
> GE had a patient on a lightbulb using microwaves... that
> consumers could buy within a couple months. That was
> about a year or two ago. Have not heard more about it,
> but I bet it has to go through environmental, FCC, UL,
> and other type testing before it could be marketed.
> As I recall it was very very efficient and a small microwave
> signal originates inside the bulb. Much like a
> fluorescent tube, the bulb glows by using high frequency RF.
> Interesting... but not overunity.
>
> Now that I think more about that... I once did an experiment
> with a plasma tube where the ion velocity is effected by the
> electric field intensity. Made an quasi tem cell (lower
> plasma angular frequency) where the cell mimics a parallel
> plate capacitor, and connected to the plasma tube. Now the
> circuit will act as a capacitor in parallel with an inductance,
> and when voltage is applied at a certain frequency, the current
> through C and through the plasma inductance are finite but
> because the equal and opposite sign it becomes infinite at
> the plasma angular frequency. The tube light up with 27Mhz
> CB radio.. and when perfectly matched.. unkeyed and the tube
> remained light!! The tube was in resonance with a very very
> high voltage across the tube. It was the convection current
> to the displacement current in the tube that was in oscillation.
> There are a LOT of variables to the equation of stability and
> resonance and deals with number of free electrons in the gas,
> charge per ion or electron, permittivity of the gas and mass
> of the gas or electrons. All in all was very interesting
> experiment trying to match the plasma inductance to get it
> stable.
>
> v/r Ken Carrigan
> PS.. not overunity though.. close but no cigar!
>
> >I've been thinking a lot lately about how to build a
> >circuit that would emulate the Marks device....you
> >know you can make damn near anything glow with high
> >voltage and in a vacuum, even better. Well light
> >bulbs, even with filaments are in a partial vacuum...
>
> >I've connected a tesla coil to a light bulb and it
> >sapped the power completely, though the filament did
> >not light up. However, if the filament is broken it
> >will glow blue not yellow from the arcing from one end
> >of the broken filament to the other.
>
> >Now I don't think Marks uses high voltage per se..I
> >think the key is that 5khz frequency which is provided
> >by the specially designed inverter as one of our
> >friends suspects.
>
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