Electric OU: Supplement: Don’t Be Fooled By HV/RF
This is just a quick demonstration to show that you can’t always trust your clampon meter around HV RF circuits.
Using the simple quasi-SSTC circuit of the AKDS device, at 14 V @ 0.35 A input (4.9 Watts DC) I show lighting a 90 Volt neon using only one wire, lighting a 120V 5W nightlight bulb with only one connection, some plasma inside a car brake light bulb with _no_ connection, lighting the usual CFL from the E-field, and lighting a 60 Watt (equivalent) LED bulb with only one contact. And of course the Clamp-On Meter’s wild response.
Don’t be fooled by HV RF ! It takes special care to measure the real outputs of such devices.
DO NOT be suckered by the “nameplate” wattages marked on boxes, when you are powering your devices with HV RF! Don’t ever use nameplate values in lieu of actual power measurements correctly performed. And do not rely on clampon current meters, which are generally optimized for 50-60 Hz (and sometimes DC), when trying to measure signals that might be oscillating at 1 MHz or beyond !!!