Re: Lifter with lights (fwd)

[Steven Roys <sroys@xxxxxxxx>]

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Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 21:05:17 -0600
From: Dr. Resonance <resonance@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: High Voltage list <hvlist@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Lifter with lights (fwd)



For a min weight structure try using remote control model aircraft colored
paper covering.  It's applied and then shrunk down to size with a heat gun.

Lightweight pine or sinka spruce cut into 0.25 inch x 0.25 inch strips works
good for the support structure.

I'm interested in building a 7 x 7 ft. or circular 7 ft. dia. UFO this
summer.  Any ideas on the best configuration to produce the lifting effect.

We already have power supplies 0-100 kV DC at up to 1 mA if necessary.

Dr. Resonance

Resonance Research Corporation
E11870 Shadylane Rd.
Baraboo   WI   53913
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> > You are right (a bit).  This was sold as a 30 kV 50 uA supply.
> > However, my measurements tonight are:
> > Input 24 V  0.80 A  = 19 W
> > Output (measured after argons).
> > no load (argons only but no wires to lifter)  ?30 kV 100 uA
> > plus HV Meter (100 uA FSD movement)    28 kV  130 uA   =  3.6 W
> > plus lifter  (no dropping resistor)                  22 kV  400 uA   =
8.8
> > W
> > ie Net current is around 270 uA and net power used by lifter is around 5
W.
>
> Ok. Several hundreds of uA is the minimum that these things appear to
> require. Maybe a super light one would rise with 50 uA. I tried to make
> one powered by an electrostatic machine that coud produce up to 100
> uA. The power was not enough, but the wind was significant. The question
> is just how to make a solid enough structure with really minimum weight.
> Maybe paper painted with conductive ink instead of metal foil? Or a thin
> wire net?
>
> > What would a 1500 W lifter look like?
>
> One with many small sections in parallel. The same voltage but lots of
> current.
>
> Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz
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