Kirlian Machine (fwd)

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Original poster: Steven Roys <sroys@xxxxxxxxxx>



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Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 01:28:54 -0500
From: Billy Baty <bbbaty@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: High Voltage list <hvlist@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Kirlian Machine

Hello everyone,

I would like to build a Kirlin machine. There are simple ones that flash 
just long enough to make a quick photo on photographic paper and there 
are more complex ones that produce a current for an extended or 
continuous length of time. I would like to build a complex one.

The only information I currently have is that the Kirlian machine 
produces high voltage with extremely low amperage. I am only guessing 
that the voltage is somewhere in the 20k range but have no idea about 
the amps. Stun guns' voltages are around 20k to 120k and deliver quite a 
shock. I am guessing that Kirlian machines will have similar voltages 
with quite a bit less amperage.

Someone mentioned that someone else had made a nice Kirlian machine out 
of an automobile ignition coil.

Supposedly the high voltage, low amperage current is conducted through a 
metal plate where anything touching the plate will glow with the Kirlian 
light energy. There may be a plastic covering on the plate. This light 
energy is produced in nature, is a form of lightening and is called St 
Elmo's Fire, albeit rare.

How about a 12volt car battery, connected to an ignition coil, but then 
what?

Anyone know how I could build such a machine?

All the best,

Billy Baty