Mini Lightning Maker.ASF

This device turns 1.5 volts into many thousands. It is a combination of the 'Jeanna's light' circuit and a simple car ignition coil circuit. The project was inspired by "Kooler's" ideas and Tesla coil designs. The Jeanna big toroid Joule Thief circuit provides the primary voltage bump. That is then pulsed with a capacitor and spark gap arrangement into a 12 volt car ignition coil. This raises the voltage high enough to jump a 1" spark gap (in pulses) and fires a small xenon flash bulb. Information on Jeanna's and Kooler's circuits can be found at the Energetic Forum under the 'Big Joule Thief' thread.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Joule Theif
• Tesla coil
• electronics
• energy

[koolerization]

lid

i got this circuit down to 30 ma's

i know you can do better.. you know why???

cause you da tha man..!!!

[Lidmotor]

Kooler---30 ma is pretty good. If we could get that to pulse at 60 hz or so then we could light up a fluorescent bulb on very low power.

[darcchen]

Hmm... isn't this just simple transforming? You say that the amperage is very low, which is the usual result when transforming the voltage up. Unfortunately this power would not be enough to power a light, I guess. Remembers me of the high voltages of a Wimshurst device.

[Lidmotor]

darcchen---Yes. What is happening is that I am trading amperage for voltage using a transformer.

[zachman0789]

will that small lighning bit create any kind of magnetic field or spin a nearby compass? I asking cause im working on a project myself and im thiniking of incorporating this with some hall sensors.

[Lidmotor]

Zachman0789---If the energy runs through an electromagnet on it's way back to the battery that should work.

[prototype9000]

hmmm i usually end up using a homemade relay or a light dimmer switch

[mallardduck2008]

If you want to make a plasma speaker, you might want something with a bit more power, so as to have higher frequency arcing.

From messing around, using a pulse width modulator circuit connected to a couple of FETs should do the trick. Run it off a large battery (I've found sealed lead acid batteries to be great), and modulate the PWM frequency with a sound source, and voila, you have a plasma speaker!

[koolerization]

you know lidmotor its a little late but i think i will build a tesla coil just to see if i can run it with this circuit...

your a real good r&d man

[jackscholze]

Lidmotor, Those Hi-voltage sparks are remarkable, considering the low power input. Now potentialize a spiral pancake coil with that Hi-V, and you have a scalar wave generator I think...

Aloha