Flame Triode With Gain And Intriguing Flame Phenomenon.

[bugstalker]

Very Interesting. My guess as an electronics author - Thermonic Emission is caused by the heating of the Anode in the flame (as oppose to heating it directly or indirectly with a filament in a vacuum tube), and the flame is "eating" the nearby oxygen. It isn't necessarily the vacuum that causes the electrons to flow, as electrons flow fine in certain gasses (Neon for instance). Rather they must be "boiled off". Why a vacuum? Because OXYGEN burns out the filament.

[K0W0O0N0]

LOL First time i can hear a flame singing! ;-]

[clagwell]

Just to say you did it, you should attempt at least one QSL with that setup.

[kinura26]

it would be interesting to make an audio amplifier out of those

[alex681219]

I saw recently the kml wire thar works like antena xtracting ennergy from the air, im curious if we put one in the air one in the fire one in the fire and one in the earht...its like electro alchemy...Nice tkx for share :)

[btown2011]

flames can be used as speakers!

play music thorught the flame!

[Khavyet]

That really would be cool & dangerous at the same time. And that's everybody's cool :P

[Wodkabruder]

plasma can be used as a speaker.

Plasma is nearby the same as fire.

[peterm3964]

Flame is conductive .

[agrajag46]

This is very fascinating. I had no clue that an plasma such as the flame can act as part of a negative differential resistor.

I appreciate your website!

[AerialTheShamen]

Some ideas:

-Can this flame be used for guitar or synth distortion effects (e.g. in a stage performance)?

-Will also a normal candle with some metal contacts work?

-How much voltage does it need?

-I saw a TV docu that modern electron microscopes use humid air instead of vacuum to examine also living objects. May the same principle be also usable as a triode?

-Has anybody ever built a kind of battery or electrolytic capacitor with control grid to amplify a signal?

[Raj72544]

Great work Nyle must try this some time.. Raj vu2zap

[Sixta16]

That is very interesting tube, which i ever seen. I will try that too!

Did u test tetrode, or pentode?

[ionizerusa]

The implications & applications are tremendous...

ionizerusa

[zaphodb777]

I am floored! Dude, I think you made an important discovery when you got the first triode working. It shouldn't have, but there sits 2 of them! Amazing, and 5 stars!

REAL RADIOS GLOW IN THE DARK!

(But who would have thought they drank alcohol to do it?)

[Tesladownunder]

A superb project with lots of interesting possibilities.

[xmare]

Incredible!!! that is so cool using a "flamelectronic" triode as oscillator :)!

[hboy007]

this is an incredibly cool idea... triodes without vacuum... imagine anybody thought of that at the time when the Leyden jar was invented :)

[TeslaMaster]

Awesome!

[Ztuibyman]

it wouldn't be worth it, since there are transistors for that thing nowadays...

[nylesteiner]

NO KIDDING!!!!!!!

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[CrashByron]

I think its amazing none the less. Great work!

[clerlic]

I think it can, but it'll experience large instability and noise and stuff.

[pingoart]

Congratulations, once again. A small curiosity: can a radio receiver be built using this?