The Energy Saver Vacuum Tube of the Future

[Rick C]

On Wednesday, May 15, 2019 at 10:06:19 PM UTC-4, bitrex wrote:

On 5/15/19 12:18 PM, Rick C wrote:
On Tuesday, May 14, 2019 at 11:14:15 AM UTC-4, bitrex wrote:
On 5/14/19 6:07 AM, DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno@decadence.org wrote:
upsidedown@downunder.com wrote in
newspskdetnt8akhq8qrote7nf8abkqbjjlmf@4ax.com:

millions of years of human evolution.

Did not know that we were around that long.


I've only been around since 1979, myself.

Ah, so you can't speak for the other many billions of hominoids?


Well it's never stopped anyone else here from doing so on the regular so...

So why did you bring it up?

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[Rick C]

On Wednesday, May 15, 2019 at 11:02:06 PM UTC-4, DecadentLinux...@decadence.org wrote:

Rick C <gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> wrote in news:3c9ebbe7-fb12-
4554-a276-82268c11fc0d@googlegroups.com:

On Tuesday, May 14, 2019 at 11:14:15 AM UTC-4, bitrex wrote:
On 5/14/19 6:07 AM, DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno@decadence.org wrote:
upsidedown@downunder.com wrote in
newspskdetnt8akhq8qrote7nf8abkqbjjlmf@4ax.com:

millions of years of human evolution.

Did not know that we were around that long.


I've only been around since 1979, myself.

Ah, so you can't speak for the other many billions of hominoids?


None of them were around millions of years ago either.

No hominoids? Oh, empty nest syndrome?

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[Jan Panteltje]

On a sunny day (Thu, 16 May 2019 04:30:17 -0700 (PDT)) it happened Rick C
<gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> wrote in
<c050547c-b753-4e90-8138-72dadba1415c@googlegroups.com>:

On Wednesday, May 15, 2019 at 12:40:18 PM UTC-4, Jan Panteltje wrote:
On a sunny day (Wed, 15 May 2019 09:14:05 -0700 (PDT)) it happened Rick C
gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> wrote in
72db852a-b792-4f5d-b9f0-045afe1716e0@googlegroups.com>:

On Tuesday, May 14, 2019 at 5:56:53 AM UTC-4, Jan Panteltje wrote:
On a sunny day (Tue, 14 May 2019 11:42:51 +0300) it happened

Nice, I have indeed had it with LED scew in bulbs,
those blow within a short time,
Reason is simple:
here the circuit diagram of big ones I bought:
http://panteltje.com/pub/LED_light_circuit_diagram_IMG_6925.JPG
there is also a few hundred kOhm resistor in parallel to the series cap
maybe to avoid electric shocks.
LEDs run at about 25 mA each!!
Draws about 90 to 100 mA largely capacitive from the mains
failed after a few month on mains spike.

The series capacitor is a few uF, hard to read the value, so took it out and
measured it:
http://panteltje.com/pub/LED_light_series_capacitor_IMG_6920.JPG

The seller is this one:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/231733195212
but what is in the shops here reacts just as bad on main spikes.

Any spike on the mains (plenty of those here) causes a HUGE current in the
LEDs,
one in a group of 4 will fail, making that group more sensitve to the next
spike
and then it is over.


I fixed mine a couple of times by shorting a burned out group,
that does increase current so it did not last...
http://panteltje.com/pub/LED_light_fix_IMG_6918.JPG

So mains powered LED lights as sold are basically a hoax,
more electronic landfill.

Things could probably be fixed by placing a good VDR on the filter cap.

I don't know why people have to extrapolate their personal experience to the
rest of the world.

It is a chance for you to learn something,
like you could learn from teslas going up in flames all by themselves, return it?

+ Tesla referral code - httpt://tr.lalalala/ricardo1234567

Learn what? That cheap Chinese light bulbs don't last as long as name brand. Already knew that. Thanks.

Most what is on sale here, and I just got a new one from the biggest supermarket in the country,
show the same behavior, you can see it flashing on a mains spike.
That mains spike is an other thing,
Last week I got a new 'intelligent' 'trikety - and gas meter.
The intellect seems to be in the automatic reporting of the usage, the gas meter reports to the 'trickey meter
and the 'trickety meter to the local 4G net if I got it right from the technician that installed those.
So far so good, next day I smelled gas, well, thought perhaps what had escaped from replacing.
Day later same, had heater on, gas was running, gas meter shaking and making noises like it was internally hit by a hammer.
Called the company that installed it.. no sane response clueless women on phone,
asked if they recorded the conversation (I do), they asked why.
I said 'for legal reasons if things blow up here'
that changed a few things, they would send somebody.
30 minutes passed, nothing happened, I called the gas alarm line..

A man was here in 20 minutes, took one look at the gas meter 'you would not believe what we come across' and replaced it
by a nice smaller completely silent electronic one....
So here we still are.. I bought a gas alarm sensor and installed it the same day,
but things seem OK now.
What a world..
Petrol cars catching fire by themselves never seems to happen, unless set on fire to erase evidence after being used for crimes.
I had a car on LPG (natural gas) those are a lot more dangerous, had its problems too, but was cheaper until
they taxed the shit out of that green propulsion...
what a world.
Your tessalads are dangerous, not only because 'autopilot' gives people a false sense of security,
takes their attention away from driving, but also because these cars seem to be way to vulnerable,
I know bottom plate was improved, but those batteries suck as far as safety is concerned.
lifepo4 would be better but has less range.
Bad welding jobs, bad service if any, just google for it.
Bit like Musk's spacecraft, I would not fly that if payed for it, recently the manned capsule escape system went up in smoke?
No tessalads for me.
But you are so good, go help him! his solar stuff is also in trouble, his 30,000$ cars are now more expensive,
he is losing control because of stupid things he did to manipulate the stock price,
but just as stupid was not following normal procedures to make those tessalads, that set him back big time, so it took longer
than doing it the normal way.
On top of that I do not believe in electric cars all over the place because I can do basic math and your grid,
and also the grid here, is in no way up to it, and in case of flooding or storms you will be stuck especially in that US
with all those over ground wires on poles, even if it is not nuked in the coming WW.

 

[Rick C]

On Thursday, May 16, 2019 at 8:36:43 AM UTC-4, Jan Panteltje wrote:

On a sunny day (Thu, 16 May 2019 04:30:17 -0700 (PDT)) it happened Rick C
gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> wrote in
c050547c-b753-4e90-8138-72dadba1415c@googlegroups.com>:

On Wednesday, May 15, 2019 at 12:40:18 PM UTC-4, Jan Panteltje wrote:
On a sunny day (Wed, 15 May 2019 09:14:05 -0700 (PDT)) it happened Rick C
gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> wrote in
72db852a-b792-4f5d-b9f0-045afe1716e0@googlegroups.com>:

On Tuesday, May 14, 2019 at 5:56:53 AM UTC-4, Jan Panteltje wrote:
On a sunny day (Tue, 14 May 2019 11:42:51 +0300) it happened

Nice, I have indeed had it with LED scew in bulbs,
those blow within a short time,
Reason is simple:
here the circuit diagram of big ones I bought:
http://panteltje.com/pub/LED_light_circuit_diagram_IMG_6925.JPG
there is also a few hundred kOhm resistor in parallel to the series cap
maybe to avoid electric shocks.
LEDs run at about 25 mA each!!
Draws about 90 to 100 mA largely capacitive from the mains
failed after a few month on mains spike.

The series capacitor is a few uF, hard to read the value, so took it out and
measured it:
http://panteltje.com/pub/LED_light_series_capacitor_IMG_6920.JPG

The seller is this one:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/231733195212
but what is in the shops here reacts just as bad on main spikes.

Any spike on the mains (plenty of those here) causes a HUGE current in the
LEDs,
one in a group of 4 will fail, making that group more sensitve to the next
spike
and then it is over.


I fixed mine a couple of times by shorting a burned out group,
that does increase current so it did not last...
http://panteltje.com/pub/LED_light_fix_IMG_6918.JPG

So mains powered LED lights as sold are basically a hoax,
more electronic landfill.

Things could probably be fixed by placing a good VDR on the filter cap.

I don't know why people have to extrapolate their personal experience to the
rest of the world.

It is a chance for you to learn something,
like you could learn from teslas going up in flames all by themselves, return it?

+ Tesla referral code - httpt://tr.lalalala/ricardo1234567

Learn what? That cheap Chinese light bulbs don't last as long as name brand. Already knew that. Thanks.

Most what is on sale here, and I just got a new one from the biggest supermarket in the country,
show the same behavior, you can see it flashing on a mains spike.
That mains spike is an other thing,
Last week I got a new 'intelligent' 'trikety - and gas meter.
The intellect seems to be in the automatic reporting of the usage, the gas meter reports to the 'trickey meter
and the 'trickety meter to the local 4G net if I got it right from the technician that installed those.
So far so good, next day I smelled gas, well, thought perhaps what had escaped from replacing.
Day later same, had heater on, gas was running, gas meter shaking and making noises like it was internally hit by a hammer.
Called the company that installed it.. no sane response clueless women on phone,
asked if they recorded the conversation (I do), they asked why.
I said 'for legal reasons if things blow up here'
that changed a few things, they would send somebody.
30 minutes passed, nothing happened, I called the gas alarm line..

A man was here in 20 minutes, took one look at the gas meter 'you would not believe what we come across' and replaced it
by a nice smaller completely silent electronic one....
So here we still are.. I bought a gas alarm sensor and installed it the same day,
but things seem OK now.
What a world..
Petrol cars catching fire by themselves never seems to happen, unless set on fire to erase evidence after being used for crimes.
I had a car on LPG (natural gas) those are a lot more dangerous, had its problems too, but was cheaper until
they taxed the shit out of that green propulsion...
what a world.
Your tessalads are dangerous, not only because 'autopilot' gives people a false sense of security,
takes their attention away from driving, but also because these cars seem to be way to vulnerable,
I know bottom plate was improved, but those batteries suck as far as safety is concerned.
lifepo4 would be better but has less range.
Bad welding jobs, bad service if any, just google for it.
Bit like Musk's spacecraft, I would not fly that if payed for it, recently the manned capsule escape system went up in smoke?
No tessalads for me.
But you are so good, go help him! his solar stuff is also in trouble, his 30,000$ cars are now more expensive,
he is losing control because of stupid things he did to manipulate the stock price,
but just as stupid was not following normal procedures to make those tessalads, that set him back big time, so it took longer
than doing it the normal way.
On top of that I do not believe in electric cars all over the place because I can do basic math and your grid,
and also the grid here, is in no way up to it, and in case of flooding or storms you will be stuck especially in that US
with all those over ground wires on poles, even if it is not nuked in the coming WW.

Your post started out fairly rationally, then it took a left turn when you started talking about autos. You have not looked at any of the facts. You are just spewing your own personal thought stream based on many biases you have.

As you start talking about the power grid you are showing a complete ignorance of the topic. This became a sub-thread here once and much like the inflate-gate discussion many people tried to analyze the impact on the grid and failed. In this case it is because they don't understand that most EV charging happens at night, at home with about the same impact as the electric backup heat on the many heat pumps here. In other words, the greater grid and power generation will never feel the impact even with 100% electric car use. Personally I am concerned that the power companies may plan for an impact on the local, residential power distribution which we will all be forced to pay for when EV charging could be accommodated without expansion to the distribution system.

If you would really like to discuss the issue, why don't we start another thread?

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[Rick C]

On Thursday, May 16, 2019 at 8:36:43 AM UTC-4, Jan Panteltje wrote:

On a sunny day (Thu, 16 May 2019 04:30:17 -0700 (PDT)) it happened Rick C
gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> wrote in
c050547c-b753-4e90-8138-72dadba1415c@googlegroups.com>:

On Wednesday, May 15, 2019 at 12:40:18 PM UTC-4, Jan Panteltje wrote:
On a sunny day (Wed, 15 May 2019 09:14:05 -0700 (PDT)) it happened Rick C
gnuarm.deletethisbit@gmail.com> wrote in
72db852a-b792-4f5d-b9f0-045afe1716e0@googlegroups.com>:

On Tuesday, May 14, 2019 at 5:56:53 AM UTC-4, Jan Panteltje wrote:
On a sunny day (Tue, 14 May 2019 11:42:51 +0300) it happened

Nice, I have indeed had it with LED scew in bulbs,
those blow within a short time,
Reason is simple:
here the circuit diagram of big ones I bought:
http://panteltje.com/pub/LED_light_circuit_diagram_IMG_6925.JPG
there is also a few hundred kOhm resistor in parallel to the series cap
maybe to avoid electric shocks.
LEDs run at about 25 mA each!!
Draws about 90 to 100 mA largely capacitive from the mains
failed after a few month on mains spike.

The series capacitor is a few uF, hard to read the value, so took it out and
measured it:
http://panteltje.com/pub/LED_light_series_capacitor_IMG_6920.JPG

The seller is this one:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/231733195212
but what is in the shops here reacts just as bad on main spikes.

Any spike on the mains (plenty of those here) causes a HUGE current in the
LEDs,
one in a group of 4 will fail, making that group more sensitve to the next
spike
and then it is over.


I fixed mine a couple of times by shorting a burned out group,
that does increase current so it did not last...
http://panteltje.com/pub/LED_light_fix_IMG_6918.JPG

So mains powered LED lights as sold are basically a hoax,
more electronic landfill.

Things could probably be fixed by placing a good VDR on the filter cap.

I don't know why people have to extrapolate their personal experience to the
rest of the world.

It is a chance for you to learn something,
like you could learn from teslas going up in flames all by themselves, return it?

+ Tesla referral code - httpt://tr.lalalala/ricardo1234567

Learn what? That cheap Chinese light bulbs don't last as long as name brand. Already knew that. Thanks.

Most what is on sale here, and I just got a new one from the biggest supermarket in the country,
show the same behavior, you can see it flashing on a mains spike.
That mains spike is an other thing,
Last week I got a new 'intelligent' 'trikety - and gas meter.
The intellect seems to be in the automatic reporting of the usage, the gas meter reports to the 'trickey meter
and the 'trickety meter to the local 4G net if I got it right from the technician that installed those.
So far so good, next day I smelled gas, well, thought perhaps what had escaped from replacing.
Day later same, had heater on, gas was running, gas meter shaking and making noises like it was internally hit by a hammer.
Called the company that installed it.. no sane response clueless women on phone,
asked if they recorded the conversation (I do), they asked why.
I said 'for legal reasons if things blow up here'
that changed a few things, they would send somebody.
30 minutes passed, nothing happened, I called the gas alarm line..

A man was here in 20 minutes, took one look at the gas meter 'you would not believe what we come across' and replaced it
by a nice smaller completely silent electronic one....
So here we still are.. I bought a gas alarm sensor and installed it the same day,
but things seem OK now.
What a world..
Petrol cars catching fire by themselves never seems to happen, unless set on fire to erase evidence after being used for crimes.
I had a car on LPG (natural gas) those are a lot more dangerous, had its problems too, but was cheaper until
they taxed the shit out of that green propulsion...
what a world.
Your tessalads are dangerous, not only because 'autopilot' gives people a false sense of security,
takes their attention away from driving, but also because these cars seem to be way to vulnerable,
I know bottom plate was improved, but those batteries suck as far as safety is concerned.
lifepo4 would be better but has less range.
Bad welding jobs, bad service if any, just google for it.
Bit like Musk's spacecraft, I would not fly that if payed for it, recently the manned capsule escape system went up in smoke?
No tessalads for me.
But you are so good, go help him! his solar stuff is also in trouble, his 30,000$ cars are now more expensive,
he is losing control because of stupid things he did to manipulate the stock price,
but just as stupid was not following normal procedures to make those tessalads, that set him back big time, so it took longer
than doing it the normal way.
On top of that I do not believe in electric cars all over the place because I can do basic math and your grid,
and also the grid here, is in no way up to it, and in case of flooding or storms you will be stuck especially in that US
with all those over ground wires on poles, even if it is not nuked in the coming WW.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_fire

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[Bill Sloman]

On Wednesday, May 15, 2019 at 3:14:30 PM UTC+10, Phil Hobbs wrote:

On 5/14/19 10:14 AM, John Larkin wrote:
On Tue, 14 May 2019 01:11:37 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
On 5/14/19 12:08 AM, John Larkin wrote:
On Mon, 13 May 2019 23:40:59 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net
wrote:
On 5/13/19 11:23 PM, Unlisted wrote:

<snip>

A sem could be insanely cheap; the vacuum pump is expensive.

And so is the stage, and the electron optics, and the scan coils, and
the focusing coils, and so on. High resolution SEMs require a lot of
high-precision vacuum mechanics and magnetics. The cathode isn't the
expensive part.

Running the yoke into the sample can cause some thousands of dollars'
worth of damage. (Ask me how I know.)

When I worked at Cambridge Instruments (who made most of their money out of electron microscopes) my boss once observed that all the fancy and relatively expensive electronics we were designing an manufacturing was merely a device that let out machine shop sell more electron microscope columns, which have to be machined with exquisite precision, and accounted for most of the sale price.

Just after I left, a Chinese mechanical engineer, who had gotten hired despite the best efforts of the personnel department, got the column parts machined with even more precision to the point where the (hot) outer part could shrink fit onto the (cold) inner parts so precisely (and so firmly) that the column started off aligned and didn't need to be realigned (by adjusting a series of grub screws - three for each of the three magnetic lenses) every time somebody stamped on the floor next to the column.

The first of the new column microscopes was driven from England to a trade fair in Spain in the back of the marketing manager's Range Rover, and arrived with it's alignment intact.

That made them a bit cheaper, but not much.

--
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[nuny@bid.nes]

On Monday, May 13, 2019 at 8:41:04 PM UTC-7, bitrex wrote:

On 5/13/19 11:23 PM, Unlisted wrote:
In the past, vacuum tubes required a lot of electricity to operate. Most
of that electricity was used to heat the heating wire, known as the
filament, which is very similar to the filament in an incandescent light
bulb. All heated wire filaments whether inside of lightbulbs or vacuum
tubes are now obsolete. They have been replaced by more efficient
florescent bulbs, or the most efficient LED bulbs.

However, you can not use a LED as a filament inside a vacuum tube. It
would appear to illuminate a tube and look like a filament, but it would
not provide the heat needed to heat the tube's cathode and thus it will
not provide the electron movement which makes the tube do it's job.

The solution is simple. Provide a hollow cylinder inside the tube's
cathode, where the filament once existed. The user of the tube must
place a lit wax candle inside the tube's special cathode. The heat from
the candle replaces the electric filament, which makes the tube work as
it did before, but with much less electricity.

But it dont stop there. So far you're only using the heat from the
candle, while the light from the flame is wasted. Therefore, the tube
needs a solar cell inside it's housing, near the candle's flame. That
solar cell produces electricity from the light of the flame. That
electricity is then used to power the circuit.

But it gets even better, by placing a transistor between the vacuum
tube's cathode, grids, and plate. The flow of free electrons will
bombard the transistor. That will make the transistor produce between 6
and up to 20 times more power than a transistor on a circuit board,
because of the added electrons. Add more transistors inside that tube
and you will achieve maximum power. That power combined with the tube's
power will turn a vacuum tube, which once produced a maximum of (example
20 watts audio output), into a tube now capable of producing 350 up to
800 watts RMS audio power.

"watts RMS"

TRIGGERED

Meh. I wanna know where to get candles that generate 800 Watts of light and heat.


Mark L. Fergerson

 

[Robert Baer]

nuny@bid.nes wrote:

On Monday, May 13, 2019 at 8:41:04 PM UTC-7, bitrex wrote:
On 5/13/19 11:23 PM, Unlisted wrote:
In the past, vacuum tubes required a lot of electricity to operate. Most
of that electricity was used to heat the heating wire, known as the
filament, which is very similar to the filament in an incandescent light
bulb. All heated wire filaments whether inside of lightbulbs or vacuum
tubes are now obsolete. They have been replaced by more efficient
florescent bulbs, or the most efficient LED bulbs.

However, you can not use a LED as a filament inside a vacuum tube. It
would appear to illuminate a tube and look like a filament, but it would
not provide the heat needed to heat the tube's cathode and thus it will
not provide the electron movement which makes the tube do it's job.

The solution is simple. Provide a hollow cylinder inside the tube's
cathode, where the filament once existed. The user of the tube must
place a lit wax candle inside the tube's special cathode. The heat from
the candle replaces the electric filament, which makes the tube work as
it did before, but with much less electricity.

But it dont stop there. So far you're only using the heat from the
candle, while the light from the flame is wasted. Therefore, the tube
needs a solar cell inside it's housing, near the candle's flame. That
solar cell produces electricity from the light of the flame. That
electricity is then used to power the circuit.

But it gets even better, by placing a transistor between the vacuum
tube's cathode, grids, and plate. The flow of free electrons will
bombard the transistor. That will make the transistor produce between 6
and up to 20 times more power than a transistor on a circuit board,
because of the added electrons. Add more transistors inside that tube
and you will achieve maximum power. That power combined with the tube's
power will turn a vacuum tube, which once produced a maximum of (example
20 watts audio output), into a tube now capable of producing 350 up to
800 watts RMS audio power.

"watts RMS"

TRIGGERED

Meh. I wanna know where to get candles that generate 800 Watts of light and heat.


Mark L. Fergerson

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[whit3rd]

On Tuesday, May 14, 2019 at 8:26:57 AM UTC-7, Phil Hobbs wrote:

On 5/14/19 5:11 AM, Jeroen Belleman wrote:

While the idea of reflecting back the useless IR radiation into the
filament is good, but unfortunately tungsten nor any other solid
material can't handle much above 2700 K temperatures

This cannot possibly be an original idea and there's probably
a good reason why it isn't done.

Causes gross hotspots on the filament if it's focused back, and doesn't
work well if it isn't

As I recall, the geometry is a tube around a line filament (focus is
automatic if you keep it coaxial) and it's not an absorbent coating, but
a dichroic reflector, so it just keeps part of the IR spectrum from radiating.
The intended result is not an overhot filament for a halogen. Because the
pyrolysis builds up metal on hot spots, the temperature of the filament
stays very uniform, because the built-up metal has lower resistance heating.

The IR is limited; the rest of the spectrum doesn't have, require, or benefit from,
higher filament temperatures.

I'm uncertain that it isn't really done (but "coaxial" works best in vertical
orientation tubular, and that isn't how all halogen capsules are designed).

 

[Johnny B Good]

On Wed, 15 May 2019 22:13:45 -0400, bitrex wrote:

====snip====

I wasn't under the impression that the luminous efficiency of an
incandescent was anywhere near as good as 5%.

Around 2 to 3% for a 100W GLS tungsten filament lamp afaicr from my 1972
edition of "Lamps and Lighting".

--
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On Tuesday, 14 May 2019 05:41:04 UTC+2, bitrex wrote:

On 5/13/19 11:23 PM, Unlisted wrote:
In the past, vacuum tubes required a lot of electricity to operate. Most
of that electricity was used to heat the heating wire, known as the
filament, which is very similar to the filament in an incandescent light
bulb. All heated wire filaments whether inside of lightbulbs or vacuum
tubes are now obsolete. They have been replaced by more efficient
florescent bulbs, or the most efficient LED bulbs.

However, you can not use a LED as a filament inside a vacuum tube. It
would appear to illuminate a tube and look like a filament, but it would
not provide the heat needed to heat the tube's cathode and thus it will
not provide the electron movement which makes the tube do it's job.

The solution is simple. Provide a hollow cylinder inside the tube's
cathode, where the filament once existed. The user of the tube must
place a lit wax candle inside the tube's special cathode. The heat from
the candle replaces the electric filament, which makes the tube work as
it did before, but with much less electricity.

But it dont stop there. So far you're only using the heat from the
candle, while the light from the flame is wasted. Therefore, the tube
needs a solar cell inside it's housing, near the candle's flame. That
solar cell produces electricity from the light of the flame. That
electricity is then used to power the circuit.

But it gets even better, by placing a transistor between the vacuum
tube's cathode, grids, and plate. The flow of free electrons will
bombard the transistor. That will make the transistor produce between 6
and up to 20 times more power than a transistor on a circuit board,
because of the added electrons. Add more transistors inside that tube
and you will achieve maximum power. That power combined with the tube's
power will turn a vacuum tube, which once produced a maximum of (example
20 watts audio output), into a tube now capable of producing 350 up to
800 watts RMS audio power.

"watts RMS"

TRIGGERED

Thanks for taking your time to spawn this hilarious story.