Re: Kirlian Machine (fwd)

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Original poster: Steven Roys <sroys@xxxxxxxxxx>



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Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 12:46:46 -0400
From: David Speck <Dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: High Voltage list <hvlist@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Kirlian Machine (fwd)

Bill,

To the best of my knowledge, Kirilian photography is done with high 
voltage RF alternating current.  Both stun guns and ignition coils 
produce primarily a DC output -- not what you want.  You are 
photographing the corona at the edge of an object produced by capacitive 
coupling of the high voltage behind the film to the object in question. 

A simple, ready made source is an old "Violet Ray" machine, also sold as 
a vacuum leak tester.  This produces a relatively safe output which you 
can connect to the plate under the film.  Be careful if you connect into 
the inside socket of some of these units -- the coils are connected to 
the 110 line, and they are sometimes electrically "hot" with reference 
to the line.  The pointed tips that come in the units as standard have a 
Bakelite sleeve that conceals a small spark gap.  This provides a degree 
of line isolation for the output.  If you connect tot he standard tip 
instead of the instead of the unit, you should be OK

Dave

High Voltage list wrote:
> 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