Imhotep Radiant Oscillator -- Circuit modifications

This is the circuit that was used in my last video. It shows modifications to the original circuit that have been added by members of the Energetic Forum to improve the efficiency of the design. They are simple and can be easily added by other replicators.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Imhotep
• radiant
• oscillator
• replication

[Lidmotor]

Dodoshido-- Glad to hear that you are going to build one. Try to follow the inventor's (Imhotep) instructions as close as you can. The 12 volt ignition coils and condenser do not have to be of precise values. The key part is the 9v relay which self oscillates and triggers the coils to produce the high voltage that lights the bulb. Good luck.

[dodoshlodo]

Hey Lidmotor, I'm gonna build one of these, just a few questions:

-I have already ordered 2 ignition coils for an old BMW motorbike. Do u think bike ones will be big enough?

-Also the condenser mentioned in the daigram, wat capacitance and voltage does this have to be?

[dodoshlodo]

well of course im making assumptions, I dont have the thing in front of me do I.

Obviously proper audit of energy would sort this out, I just find it intriguing to see a 100W cfl glow of a 12V battery.

Lidmotor says there is no free pie, so I guess that settles it, but I would be very interested to see the real efficiency of the thing. Even if it recovered up to 80% Power back I think its worth investigating and improving. Anyway Im gonna build one so i can see for myself.

[Lidmotor]

Yes all the pie is being eaten and accounted for. No free pie today. The point of this fun project is to see WHO is eating the pie and how. Peple may be getting the wrong impression here. This about efficiency of a lighting system and nothing else. And its alot of fun. This belongs to someone else anyway. Imhotep and Peter Lindemann designed this and asked people to replicate it to prove it works. It works. And its alot of fun.

[Drevtoobe]

Lidmotor is having fun, more power to him, pun intended. He came to a very astute realization a while back; the energy from the solar panel and the battery is being sliced up like a pie. All the pieces of the pie add up to one whole pie.

If somebody really wanted to, they could do a true energy audit trail. Every piece of the pie could be accounted for. For example, I told you how to make accurate pulse circuit power consumption measurements, and charging battery power measurements.

[Drevtoobe]

Dodoshlodo, you are just making assumptions. You don't really know how much power is coming from the solar panel, all that you know is that the panel is rated at two watts. Likewise, you don't really know what the true RMS current consumption is, the analog meter is just giving you a ballpark RMS current consumption. It is possible that the analog meter is showing less consumption than there really is due to the high frequency pulses going through it.

[dodoshlodo]

yeh I think i got mistaken for the 12V cfl, but nonetheless, in his next video he runs 500mA at 12V = 6 Watts + 2Watt Solar Cell= 8Watts input and it lights a 100Watt cfl globe this time, still while charging a secondary battery?????

[Drevtoobe]

"u told me this a while ago, voltage spikes can charge caps, we cant just say hey look it charged my cap up to 300V."

I said that a discharging inductor can charge a cap and in theory the sky is the limit for the voltage on the cap. When the inductor discharges into a cap the spikes disappear. Yes you can say hey look it charged my cap to 300 volts.

"Really opens up new ways of designing household lighting, by recycling most of the energy"

It's not nearly as simple as that!

[Drevtoobe]

Hey Dodoshlodo, I'm not sure where you are getting your numbers from but if I recall correctly Lidmotor's implementation of the Imhotep circuit from a few clips back drew about 2 amps and the COTS (commercial off the shelf) 12-volt fluorescent lamp drew about 0.2 amps (standard multimeter disclaimer).

So there is really nothing to explain right now unless you can point me to the source for your numbers. Seeing a full energy audit on one of these circuits would be interesting.

[Drevtoobe]

Yes, L = inductance.