Re: Kelvin water dropper (fwd)

[Steven Roys <sroys@xxxxxxxx>]

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Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 20:07:23 -0800
From: Jonathan Peakall <jpeakall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: Kelvin water dropper (fwd)

John,

Wow, nice Kelvin generator. Do you find the fancy collectors you use help a
lot? I tried a bunch, (on a very crude by comparison) on mine, but didn't
find they made too much difference. All I ever achieved was the usual 1cm
output however. Nice little spark though, from falling water.

Jonathan

www.madlads.info


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Subject: Kelvin water dropper (fwd)


> Original poster: Steven Roys <sroys@xxxxxxxx>
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> Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 14:52:54 -0800
> From: John Pepper <jspepper@xxxxxxx>
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> Subject: Kelvin water dropper
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> Greetings Ed,
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>  http://www-eng.lbl.gov/~jspepper/Water%20Dropper/
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> The water dropper is not yet ready to operate on its own.  I did,
> however, hook up a Wimshurst to the top inducer which resulted in charge
> transport indicating that things were happening properly.  Many of the
> designs I have seen did not handle corona losses very well (i.e. beer
> cans) so I am using lots of balls and a couple of toroids for charge
> collectors.  With some leyden jar caps and some re-adjustment of the
> inducer height I'm hoping to achieve a little better than the typical .5
> to 1 cm output.  Wimpy by many standards, but from falling
> water...pretty cool.
>
> -John
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