Re: Kirlian Machine (fwd)

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Original poster: Steven Roys <sroys@xxxxxxxxxx>



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Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 21:33:28 -0500
From: Shaun Epp <scepp@xxxxxxx>
To: High Voltage list <hvlist@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Kirlian Machine (fwd)

The Kirlian discharge is just a high voltage discharge, some people believe 
there is more to it than that though.

Another way of doing this is to use a petry(spelling) dish.  You patially 
fill it with water and add some copper sulfate to make it conductive.  Put a 
metal strip inside it around the inside of the dish.  Connect this to ground 
or return lead.  put whatever you what to electrify under the dish and 
connect it the the high voltage.  I used a plastic sheet on supports with 
black cloth under it for the base and put the object (like a key or leaf) on 
it with the dish on top.  It works well.  This idea came out of an older 
issue of Popular Electronics.

Good luck

Shaun Epp


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Subject: Re: Kirlian Machine (fwd)


> Original poster: Steven Roys <sroys@xxxxxxxxxx>
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> Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 13:09:10 EDT
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> In a message dated 10/11/06 10:24:16 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
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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
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> 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
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> Hi Billy,
>
> Two possibly interesting references:
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> "Photographing the Nonmaterial World" by Kendall Johnson 1975, Hawthorn
> Books Inc.
> Article "Kirlian Photography" in "Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience" by Dr.
> W.F.Williams, 2000, Facts on File Inc.
>
> Edmond Scientific (scientificsonline.com) sold these systems in the 
> mid-70s
> along with biofeedback machines and power pyramids, but I think they 
> stopped
> it after they got bad press for promoting New Age quackery as  science.
>
> IIRC, Kendall Johnson is a "True Believer" in Aether, Auras, etc. but  I
> think his book may have the circuit information you want.
>
> Matt D.
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