Piezoelectric Effect 1

[straaangeable]

i'm doing a research about piezoelectricity and i would like to present the same experience as yours to a jury so please can you tell me where i can find the pzt material ?

[blackkkladder]

Why only use smaller piezo crystals, why not larger? to get more electricity? and what does current depend on?

[sagardwipdas]

sir this mechanism i want.....

[rfengr]

the lights are florescent tubes with really high impedance, probably in the Gohm range, so it really doesn't take much current to ionize the gas in the tubes.

[Dragonart100]

Actually they are christmas lights. A ignighter from a lighter or grill will only produce Milli volts witch cannot produce enough energy to floresent on the otherside you would need a transfomer and ballast to light a floresent tube.

[quosmo1]

lighter igniters ? what do you think your seeing here ? i see a series of lamps ....

[heathinv]

Intriguing..

[rdlulu]

The small black thing is a PZT material. It generates electrical field when it undergoes mechanical stress. So when the conducting foil hits it, the electrical field creates current in the circuit and lighting as a result.

That should be right.

[Xylophonic254]

is pzt more efficient than quartz?

[alexpardo]

quartz is a pzt material

[DarkTemp0]

Quartz is a material and PZT another, PZT stands for Lead Zirconate Titanate. Quartz is basicaly SiO2 (purified, crystalised sand)

[DarkTemp0]

Yes

[simonmic001]

what did you use