RE: Help With Electric Project for Alzhimerz
March 13, 2017 at 7:10 pm
(This post was last modified: March 13, 2017 at 7:18 pm by RoadRunner79.)
(March 13, 2017 at 6:30 pm)Jenny A Wrote: Hi, my husband and I have a project. Neither of us know much about electronics beyond household wiring. But we want to build an LED that flashes at 40 megahertz.
Why? Well we recently heard on Radio Lab about a study in mice in which a 40 megahertz flashing light reversed alzhimerz symptoms in mice. His mother and my step-father are both suffering from dementia. So we'd like to try this out as we can't imagine it could hurt and it will be years before it's cleared to test on people.
We have two small breadboards, 9 volt batteries, and LED's. We've tested with other capacitors, but to get a 40 megahertz flash we need 500 Ferdinand capacitors with at least a 9 volt capacity. I can't buy them locally. On line I keep finding them in quantities of 1000 or so. Any suggestions for where to purchase 10 capacitors or less?
You should be able to get some sort of oscillator/ clock freq. generator to work at that freq. However you would probably need fiber optic grade LED's. looking online though most seem to say 40 HZ...not 40 MHZ
40 HZ also does fall within the brain gamma waves they mentioned.... but so does 60 Hz, which if you have fluorescent lights they are flickering at that rate in the US
