LED – more heat more power ?

A non scientific little idea, to merely indicate whether heating an LED may improve photovoltaic output. The suggestion was made by Allen Burgess, for this experiment. A meter was an oversight and having witnessed that there is a possibility of throughput increase, wish I would have had one attached ! Here’s the thread – energeticforum.com Ha’Penny is an LED oscillator, based on Lidmotor’s ‘Penny’…you can find the original circuit on his YouTube channel. I changed out the large coil for a small ferrite one and generally micro sized the design, hence Ha’penny – half a Penny, in about pre WWII English speak. It features the ability to run via solar, with an onboard I/R LED. That was bypassed today, for this test. Fitted instead, is another I/R LED on an extension, such that heating it with a flame wouldn’t damage the circuit. The thread at Energetic Forum is with regard to a report, that heat applied to a very low running voltage LED, has been scientifically shown to produce a condition where there is more measurable output than input. So, the question was asked, would heating a regular LED, while it is performing as a photovoltaic source, increase its throughput. It would appear, from this run, that the oscillator firing rate did indeed climb. Sorry about the poor video editing – tried to update my PC last night from Ubuntu 11.04 to 11.10 and the system bust. Running Puppy Linux for the moment and used Avidemux to at least get the video online ! The video is just

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