OK here is the first video I've been able to capture, yes it is terrible
quality but does capture the discharges I'm seeing.
I'm working on getting a better capture going so please bear with me.
For reference the collector you can see is 14 Inches in diameter, approx 5
feet off the ground.
https://youtu.be/uddGVHsVnfg
On Sat, Jan 9, 2016 at 9:05 PM, Ed <evp@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I made a 'radial dirod' generator. Far less output of course but in the
> dark the sparks between the terminals showed that behavior with direction
> of straight part reversing from discharge to discharge. Far more
> spectacular with a VDG of course.
>
> Ed
>
> On 1/9/2016 7:25 AM, Antonio Queiroz wrote:
>
>> Em 08/01/2016 14:20, msweeney23@xxxxxxxxx escreveu:
>>
>>> Hi all, im seeing some behavior i cannot explain with my current
>>> non-pumped VDG and hoping we could start a discussion.
>>>
>>> The machine is using a 14" steel collector and 10 ft latex belt. It is
>>> running beautifully without a traditional corona ring or opening radius due
>>> to a non-conductive corona-ring like solution i found by accident (imagine
>>> a 1 inch thick smooth rubber ring just below the collector opening).
>>>
>>> Here is what i am seeing:
>>>
>>> The collector charges quickly and without any leakage and spontaneously
>>> throws off hot loud discharges into empty air. The discharge starts off as
>>> a normal straight single spark for about 2-4 inches then suddenly branches
>>> off into 4 fainter thick ones reaching 10-20 inches out finally terminating
>>> in a blue 'mist'.
>>>
>>> This is typical positive positive corona, with a straight initial
>> segment followed by many branches. If the sound is loud, probably they are
>> terminating in something nearby, forming a "failed spark", with a "pop"
>> sound, where a bright spark channel is not seen. Look at what happens in
>> the dark to see more details. It's really difficult to photograph the
>> phenomenon. If you look carefully at a normal spark, you see the initial
>> straight segment, and possibly faint lines where it ends, one or more of
>> them developing into the normal spark. If the terminal were negative you
>> would see similar formations at conductors approximated to the terminal.
>>
>> Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz
>>
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