Re: Kelvin water dropper (fwd)

[Steven Roys <sroys@xxxxxxxx>]

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Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 07:12:47 -0800
From: Jim Lux <jimlux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: High Voltage list <hvlist@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Kelvin water dropper (fwd)

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> Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 20:07:23 -0800
> From: Jonathan Peakall <jpeakall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 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.

Isn't the voltage going to be mostly limited by the corona from the wire
interconnecting the various components?