[NewCandle] other modes for LEDs...aha

[Nick Reiter]

Hi again, Jones,

I do have to confess that I may have overlooked at
least one of the modes of LED lighting you were
talking about.  Apologies... I guess I am so used to
the "straight and narrow" when it comes to absorbing
engineering changes that I missed the semantic
differences.

I gather that some of what has been going on recently
then is with the LED string connected right to the
"secondary terminal" of the oscillator, without using
the AV plug?  Maybe this is what you meant by the open
wire mode.

So OK, I re-arranged things, and can get the bank of
green LEDs at least to light without the AV plug,
however, as one goes down the string of greens, they
do get much dimmer.  I see this mode as well in some
of the photos of the other fellows' work.

On the other hand, the luminosity is much less than
with the AV plug, and the dimming of the LEDs as you
go down the string suggests that nodes are coming into
play, as one would expect in a radiative circuit. 
That effect I played with 35 years ago, when my dad
would take me with him when he would visit one of his
radio repair buddies.  The old dude in question had a
1/4 wave antenna in his basement for checking CB
mobile radios on the bench.  When he would key up, you
could light a 4 foot fluorescent bulb held in hand. 
CBs were typically 4 watts I think.  With a proper 1/4
wave antenna, the Vmax is at the tip... just like in a
Tesla Coil.  However, with Tesla Coils, you can run
them off of an RF generator at a low input voltage,
and light a fluorescent tube as you slowly move it up
the side of the secondary.  At different points, the
lamp will brighten and dim.

One could probably also model it as an RF dissipative
loss phenomenon.

So again, I am not seeing anything non-intuitive, I
guess, however I WILL take some time to work with this
mode, since I guess I overlooked it before, or didn't
understand which variation was being discussed at
which time.

Though a small TC builder, I am far from being one of
the TC grandmasters.  I wonder if there are any of the
true olde time Resonance Wizards looking into
Stifflers work?

N

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