RE: Flourescent tube primary

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Original poster: "explorecraft" <pariah-at-explorecraft-dot-com> 



Obsessed by curiousity:

I tried a 22w circle (Philips 3A 1130 Lm) (230vac mains)
  circular flourescent bulb driven by
  one of those power-saver thingies
  advertised to allegedly lower the power draw.
Slopped on a 36 turn coil laid directly on the tube,
  and see only 6 volts p-p, interesting waveform though.
More later after I build a properly resonant coil...

Not that this could be a profitable exploration,
  but for some reason I find it interesting

cheers

 > Sent: Monday, 2004 January 19 08:02
 > To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
 > Subject: Re: Flourescent tube primary
 > Original poster: Harvey Norris <harvich-at-yahoo-dot-com>
 >  > Original poster: "explorecraft"
 >  > <pariah-at-explorecraft-dot-com>
 >  >
 >  > I haven't seen this discussed anwhere,
 >  >   but has anyone ever tried using
 >  >   (one or array) of circular flourescent tubes
 >  >   as a primary for a stepup transformer?
 >  > My guess is that the inductance is lost to ions
 >  >   absorbing energy inside the tube.
 > I would imagine the amperage conductions in the tubes
 > are rather miniscule compared to the amperage
 > conductions with a copper primary. Interestingly
 > however the inductive reactance of a neon discharge
 > can be found by placing a known high impedance coil in
 > series with the neon, and noting how the addition of
 > that inductive reactance changed the circuit from its
 > prior state of single loaded neon discharge.
 > HDN