Imhotep 2 coil Radiant Oscillator --my replication

Yes. These are 2 identical automobile ignition coils.

HOT RHEOSTAT!!!! That has been a real problem for me until last night. Rheostats are wire wound variable resistors. They act like 110 pulg in heaters like you use in your house if they draw too much load. Last night by using that 1k ceramic pot on the coil of the relay and adjusting the neo magnets--all of a sudden the rheostat heat went away and the relay got quiet. Peter will have to tell us what happened. Watch my next video. It shows the circuit diagram.

As Steve Martin used to say, "You are one bunch of wild and crazy guys!!" LOL

Smoking resistors and hot rheostats!

You may want to experiment with putting a reverse-biased diode across the relay coil. That's standard practice because when you switch off the power to the relay, the relay coil does you know what. The desire is to absorb the spike from the relay coil through the diode and make it disappear so that the spike does not disturb the rest of your circuit.

HOWEVER, the relay is used in this circuit to actually make the oscillator, so "standard practice" in this case may throw off your relay oscillator.

I give you "Wild and Crazy Guy" Brownie Points Lidmotor for hacking your relay by putting a neo magnet on it to change it's response to the external excitation. It shows that you are really experimenting, and your mind is clicking.

Drevtoobe, Thanks for checking in on me from time to time. This is another fun project that I am participating in. No spinnig things this time or gas. Just light. By the way your advice on solar panels and how they work has really helped me use them correctly on my boat. Thanks. Hope you are having a good summer up north.

Jeez... Sometimes YouTube eats postings, so frustrating, I hope that my posting from two minutes ago shows up.....

.... Here is the fun suggestion: How about reverse-engineering that 12-volt fluorescent lamp from a few clips bask? That's fancy talk for rip it apart and try to figure out how it works. It could be fun and you might learn some stuff and steal some design ideas. Every manufacturer tears down their competitor's stuff!!!

First posting lost! Again: So thanks for the nice words and you are welcome on the solar panel stuff, not that I really did anything.

I also mentioned that your 12-volt store-bought fluorescent lamp from a few clips back was consuming only about 200 milliamps (standard mulltimeter disclaimer) so it might be interesting for you and/or Mart to disassemble and try to figure out how it works. It appears to be more efficient than the Imhotep circuit.

I ripped apart all my toys when I was a kid!