What if you used wood as a center instead of just wax?
Perhaps boil some kiln dried / or very dry balsam wood that would absorb the wax(s), which would hold the wax together better / perhaps add capacitance, and then wrap it in copper or what ever conductive material.
Seems it would work as a capacitor still. Or, use paper / carbon / dirt, or something, instead of just using the troublesome wax.
Or do like you already did. Stop.. lol.
Interesting tho. Thanks for your efforts and videos.
@FUNCLEJ0E Hmmm, the wood would make the wax less conductive though. search electret, then find wikipedia, and in wiki under the heading of manufacture it says... recipes consists of 45% carnauba wax, 45% white rosin, and 10% white beeswax. Soo, i might have it working if i just do the experiment again with these ingredients :-) But soo many projects now,,,
what do you think about a high temperature electret? as I understand an electret, is a high K dielectric. (massy) I have long considered a basalt / granite electret, but that's just one electrode. it would need a metal component. What would you suggest?? the idea is: to melt the rock in a crucible, glass / rock are about the same in a furnace ... and that becomes the electret as it cools down. I'd love your opinion on that ;) Cheers :) Love ya work.
Yes I understand what a electret is...but you need gold to make it work cause of the properties of the gold..so what your using won't work...if you take and apply heat to the surface of the gold plate it will convert into electricity...how much electricity?..who knows..I guess the more heat the more electricity
@pcxcity Hmmm, interesting. Maybe heating of the gold will create electrical energy,,but you still need the proper wax mixture to retain the charge, and continue to absorb a charge even after the gold is cooled down.
Hmmm, this would be an exspensive experiment. Thanks for the ideas.
Also you should try it again and post "The Electret That Worked part 3" because it does work but you need to experiment a little more and read the Creative Science Doc more thoroughly testing different metals , using higher voltage, and also cooking it at high temperature so that the metal gets red hot for a longer time.
@Last1Inventor Hmmm, i think you are correct. I should try all you said and also add some bees wax, i think 10%. I will think about it. It may continue to bother me that i never tried more stuff with it. I may go back to this project, thanks.
If only all of our devices's worked the first try. Great idea to share your failure as I am sure there will be others that will try to get it. Keep up the great work. Peace rawbush
What if you used wood as a center instead of just wax?
Perhaps boil some kiln dried / or very dry balsam wood that would absorb the wax(s), which would hold the wax together better / perhaps add capacitance, and then wrap it in copper or what ever conductive material.
Seems it would work as a capacitor still. Or, use paper / carbon / dirt, or something, instead of just using the troublesome wax.
Or do like you already did. Stop.. lol.
Interesting tho. Thanks for your efforts and videos.
FUNCLEJ0E 3 months ago
@FUNCLEJ0E Hmmm, the wood would make the wax less conductive though. search electret, then find wikipedia, and in wiki under the heading of manufacture it says... recipes consists of 45% carnauba wax, 45% white rosin, and 10% white beeswax. Soo, i might have it working if i just do the experiment again with these ingredients :-) But soo many projects now,,,
INVENTOR3 3 months ago
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what do you think about a high temperature electret? as I understand an electret, is a high K dielectric. (massy) I have long considered a basalt / granite electret, but that's just one electrode. it would need a metal component. What would you suggest?? the idea is: to melt the rock in a crucible, glass / rock are about the same in a furnace ... and that becomes the electret as it cools down. I'd love your opinion on that ;) Cheers :) Love ya work.
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Yes I understand what a electret is...but you need gold to make it work cause of the properties of the gold..so what your using won't work...if you take and apply heat to the surface of the gold plate it will convert into electricity...how much electricity?..who knows..I guess the more heat the more electricity
pcxcity 1 year ago
@pcxcity Hmmm, interesting. Maybe heating of the gold will create electrical energy,,but you still need the proper wax mixture to retain the charge, and continue to absorb a charge even after the gold is cooled down.
Hmmm, this would be an exspensive experiment. Thanks for the ideas.
INVENTOR3 1 year ago
Also you should try it again and post "The Electret That Worked part 3" because it does work but you need to experiment a little more and read the Creative Science Doc more thoroughly testing different metals , using higher voltage, and also cooking it at high temperature so that the metal gets red hot for a longer time.
Last1Inventor 1 year ago
@Last1Inventor Hmmm, i think you are correct. I should try all you said and also add some bees wax, i think 10%. I will think about it. It may continue to bother me that i never tried more stuff with it. I may go back to this project, thanks.
INVENTOR3 1 year ago
@INVENTOR3 "Carnauba wax seems to be the best!" (Plan #H757). Also try using aluminum next time maybe it will work better, Rick mentions it allot
Last1Inventor 1 year ago
@Last1Inventor searching for comments is temporarily turned off,,, agggrrr,,,,do you have another link? I will try again later.
INVENTOR3 1 year ago
If only all of our devices's worked the first try. Great idea to share your failure as I am sure there will be others that will try to get it. Keep up the great work. Peace rawbush
Rawbush 1 year ago
@Rawbush Hey, thank you very much, inspiring words. Thanks again.
I hope someone does try to bring it a step further.
INVENTOR3 1 year ago