Electric OU: Tar Baby and the Dim Bulb Test, Part 3
(no audio) Gaah…. I ran out of disk space during the test and the timelapse failed. I was able to salvage some of the frames, though. Here you can see the 4 Tar Baby…
Experiments, inventions, patents, …
(no audio) Gaah…. I ran out of disk space during the test and the timelapse failed. I was able to salvage some of the frames, though. Here you can see the 4 Tar Baby…
Why are Tar Baby’s batteries drooping? I have the same oscillations, the same magic mosfets, the same this and the same that, I have heating of the load… but my cheapo DMMs are not…
(No Audio) (Time Lapse Video, shot at 1 fps, played back at 5 fps) 4 batteries were fully charged with an automatic automotive battery charger. One was randomly selected and set aside. The other…
More quantitative scoposcopy of the Tar Baby’s current viewing resistor (“shunt”). Now that I have shown instrument calibrations and have explained the bias current and the oscillations using the meters and the oscilloscope, the…
Enthusiastic after the last Play Date, Tar Baby shows both almost completely undistorted oscillations, nearly perfectly sinusoidal waveforms using the 555-based voltage inverting charge pump system. Then, in another demonstration of the negative voltage…
The Tektronix DSO’s math functions are used to demonstrate the negative mean power product in two ways: the raw mean and “mean of means” is computed for the math trace, and also the Areas…
PLEASE NOTE: IN THE VIDEO I MISLABELLED THE INDUCTANCE. It’s really 28 MICROHenry, not 28 nanoHenry. Thanks to .99 for “poynting” this out !! Want massive OU and battery charging too? Just add all…
After our recent mishap last week when I was trying to use the Ainslie component destroyer to drive my new Tesla coil resonator…. some people have been worried about their favorite little briar patch…
Some question may exist about the capacitance value of the bank used to power Tar Baby. This bank of electrolytic caps powers Tar Baby with no batteries, and can be used to illustrate the…
A simple basic hookup, Tar Baby’s “usual suspects” engaging the Tek 4034 Digital Phosphor Oscilloscope. Upper trace, yellow, is across the 0.25 Ohm CVR. The purple trace is on the battery terminals, directly, plus…