I absolutely love this! You made this all from scrap and salvaged parts? That's amazing. I like your home made foil and perspex cap, especially the book holding up the aligator clip. Let me know when you plan to build a Flux Capacitor ; )
I know that "Striking" is the term called before turning on a studio or set light, but do you know where the term comes from?
In the old days of cinema-production the only light that were bright enough exposing film were carbon arc lights. The electricians would draw an arc between two carbon rods not unlike the arc drawn from the Jacobs ladder at the beginning of the video.
Yeah, to increase capacitance, you wire them in parallel. To decrease capacitance, you wire in series. Inductors are the opposite. Wish I could have been there for that!
The question was actually whether or not to put the cap in parallel to the transformer or in series with the spark gap. As I finally realized at 3:55, the cap will not charge with an open gap and the gap will not have a high enough voltage to breakdown if the cap does not charge. So, the cap has to be parallel with the transformer with a large spark gap.
I will let you know when I go back down. Next time I hope to double the output by improving the Q of both the primary and secondary circuits
I absolutely love this! You made this all from scrap and salvaged parts? That's amazing. I like your home made foil and perspex cap, especially the book holding up the aligator clip. Let me know when you plan to build a Flux Capacitor ; )
ChrisLody 2 years ago
I like how you call "striking" before you plug in the transformer.
Agent3 2 years ago
I know that "Striking" is the term called before turning on a studio or set light, but do you know where the term comes from?
In the old days of cinema-production the only light that were bright enough exposing film were carbon arc lights. The electricians would draw an arc between two carbon rods not unlike the arc drawn from the Jacobs ladder at the beginning of the video.
Alright, that enough trivia...
nathanielscott 2 years ago
Yeah, to increase capacitance, you wire them in parallel. To decrease capacitance, you wire in series. Inductors are the opposite. Wish I could have been there for that!
wado1942 2 years ago
The question was actually whether or not to put the cap in parallel to the transformer or in series with the spark gap. As I finally realized at 3:55, the cap will not charge with an open gap and the gap will not have a high enough voltage to breakdown if the cap does not charge. So, the cap has to be parallel with the transformer with a large spark gap.
I will let you know when I go back down. Next time I hope to double the output by improving the Q of both the primary and secondary circuits
nathanielscott 2 years ago
Gottcha. You might try a 2nd order filter to narrow the Q.
wado1942 2 years ago
Cool stuff! At around 8:20 it looks like it's jumping up to the ceiling beam or pipe!
JohnLRice 2 years ago
I saw that when we were checking the video footage on site. I think it is a kind of lens flare.
nathanielscott 2 years ago