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Just for fun, the audiophile light amplifier

Just for fun, the audiophile light amplifier

Was reading about that audio tube, and wondering

You now, clean energy, solar etc...

So what if transmissive modulated changing LCD panel light voltage / current sun O -->-- light -->-- [] -->-- ->- --->--- Ge photo diode -->-- ->- --->--- headphones. | input voltage

The idea, you need almost no energy to flip the state of the LCD from transmissive to black. A Ge photo diode, use an old OC13 with the paint stripped of, or any other like that:

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will give of some voltage, enough to drive headphones.

Real environmental clean audio power!

The LC panel will have to be fast enough though, 1 mS ~ 1000 Hz, so bass will be good ..

The soft noize from the sun gives the audio just that extra dim-mansion.

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Jan Panteltje
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Ya, Thomas Edison did that circa 1880. ;-)

As he didn't have any LCD panels or photodiodes available he used a parabolic mirror and a selenium cell as the detector

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bitrex

Whoops! I meant Bell, not Edison!

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bitrex

On a sunny day (Sat, 27 May 2017 07:12:47 -0400) it happened bitrex wrote in :

Yea, I considered selenium, as in the old lightmeter I had, but it is so slow.

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Jan Panteltje

On a sunny day (Sat, 27 May 2017 07:13:23 -0400) it happened bitrex wrote in :

That is OK, Edison is blamed for many thing even for inventing the light bulb...

But the main thing here is that I think it will work. Bias the LC so the crystals are twisted halfway, and, if it was fast enough and had say a tuned ferrite antenna as input you could perhaps use half of the wave to open it and use it as rectifier / AM radio.

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Jan Panteltje

That reminds me of one of my favorite speculative tools for extracting optimal financial gain from the boutique audio community, the so-called "Electron-Bombarded Semiconductor":

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Most people have never encountered one of these gadgets. It's essentially a power tube with DC-microwave bandwidth and very low output impedance, no plate transformer needed to drive a speaker.

One of the inventors on the '961 patent lives near me and still has some of the hardware in his basement. I keep hoping he'll be inspired to power it up one of these days so we can see how much warmth, imaging, presence, soundstage, and cash can be obtained from it.

-- john, KE5FX

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John Miles, KE5FX

On a sunny day (Sun, 28 May 2017 22:16:40 -0700 (PDT)) it happened "John Miles, KE5FX" wrote in :

Interesting, I had a similar idea where the electron beam was deflected by outside EM waves, as radio receiver.. Vidicons were so much fun to play with to study the effect of electron beam rotation (spiral) and magnetic influence.

My idea can be taken much further. I have a nice 100 W solar panel, add, in front of it (on the sun side), a large liquid crystal. Now you have very high impedance input voltage drive (like a MOSFET) and several amps at 18 V or so controlled output. Near infinite power gain (if there is sun). I am sure you can connect a woofer to it, no extern supply needed.

LC solar panel panel | [ ] / O ---------------- | - - - - [ ] - - - - - - - [] sunny sound sun | [ ] \ |

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Jan Panteltje

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