Wimshurst Machine: Electrostatic Ping Pong

[DoctrZhivago]

boring



[advthinker]

GREAT NOW THAT WE HAVE THAT OUT OF THE WAY! can you figure out how to charge up a lead acid battery with that machine?

[advthinker]

If you had two balls on strings, would they clack clack clack ?

[angelb650650]

@advthinker yes,i have two balls,but i'm afraid to give them high voltage... ;)

[rafael44p]

omg ? put your hand on it ?

[llamadogwillkillu]

so basically, wimshurst machine + hampster = no electric bill?

[DjinnJuggler]

@llamadogwillkillu hamster on some serious steroids maybe

[PenguinOfMystery]

Its basically hooked up to franklins bells except no pyhsical bells.

[alexundErgroUnd353]

hola que tal,quisiera saber como se hace esto,ya que tengo que entregar un proyecto en la universidad de la maquina de winshurt,yo tnego el modelo pero quisiera agregarle algo asi como esta en el video para demostracion..!! si eres tan amable de responderme te lo agradeceria.

[MIXMASTAPWN]

dude i used something similar to this in physics and it zapped the fuck out of me lol

[MattBlytheTheOne]

i tried to take this seriously then I just ended up dancing aroud the kitchen!

[amethyst8teen]

Good demonstration. I love the music!

[coollegue]

good realisation !!

[Mike63111]

How many volts can a device this size put out? And how big would it have to be to power a house?

[amethyst8teen]

The wimshurst machine will produce a spark roughly one third of the length of the spinning discs. The electrical breakdown of air is 3000 V/cm so a 1 cm spark is 3000V. It produces a high voltage but the current is erratic so it wouldn't work very well for powering anything like a radio or a light bulb, it would just burn it up.

[sasho54]

@amethyst8teen

Actually the breakdown electric field for dry air is approximately 30 kV/cm. Check your data.

[Mike63111]

What is the proper name for the Pendulum ball apparatus. I have ordered the Wimshurst Machine but I don't think that ball thing comes with it. I will make it myself. Is that a metal ball with two magnets on each end? I am guessing that this will keep the device going indefinitly.

[amethyst8teen]

The ball is a plastic or some other insulator that a charge clings to. The pendulum will only go as long as the wimshurst is spinning. A wooden ball should work fine.

[claymodeling1]

Use a ping-pong ball, spray it with aluminum paint.  The end plates are just aluminum or some thin metal. Suspend it with silk thread.

[jennaleanne89]

woo my surname is wimshurst

[CINDYSHEEHANWASRIGHT]

my balls do that when riding a horse..

[friedrichsacher]

The drive belt of the 1st PVC-Disk is normal and the drive belt of the 2nd PVC-Disc is crossed over cause one Disk must rotate against the other that you can produce high static electricity!

[antigravityresearch]

Sparks are amazing fun! Does the electrical polarity change if you reverse the direction of rotation? And why is the drive belt crossed over?

Ken

[BarneySaysHi]

Are those Leyden jars at both ends?

[newtonianbarf]

yes. They're used to give the sparks a little juice and to help build up voltage due to the small size of the discharge terminals.

[jnp1995]

Great illustration of a Wimshurst machine in action!!! Well done!!!