Re: Kelvin water dropper (fwd)

[Steven Roys <sroys@xxxxxxxx>]

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Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 16:04:30 -0800
From: Ed Phillips <evp@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: High Voltage list <hvlist@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Kelvin water dropper (fwd)

High Voltage list wrote:
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> Original poster: Steven Roys <sroys@xxxxxxxx>
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> Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 14:52:54 -0800
> From: John Pepper <jspepper@xxxxxxx>
> To: High Voltage list <hvlist@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 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

John:

	I'll sure be interested in your results, when and as you finish the
project.  I saw all of the trouble you have gone to and hope it pays
off!  Maybe I'll go ahead and build a beer can model anyway and at least
see if I can get anything out of it or perhaps run an electrostatic
motor a la Bill Beatty.

	As for the Wimshurst, that's a work of art.  I've never gotten up the
ambition to build one because VDG's work so well, but they're sure not
as photogenic!

Ed

Ed