High Resistance

Today is the 16th of September.  The other day I increased the guage of one of my cables and it seemed to prevent further vaporization of my cables so far.  I was noticing that my return to the negative terminal was overheating rather quickly.  I decided to patch all my negative returns to an aluminum plate and then through the circuit again and finally back through the aluminum plate and then the negative terminal of the 12 volt battery that I am using.  The result:  I have managed to reduce some of the overheating problems in the negative wire. With that said, however, I am getting equal heating in the positive lead as well as the negative although not as drastic as before.  Even with this overheating partially resolved, I am still pondering why my 110 volt neon lamp is not kicking on.  That´s it for now.  Thanks.  Sirius8ly

Some Progress and More Frustrations

I am posting these photos in the hopes that an electrical engineer who can guess what it is I am trying to do, will throw me a line and help me to understand why my cables keep burning up in a fine vapor.  Thank you.

Sirius8ly