Coilpacitor

[kdkinen]

very cool

[bellerian1]

Howdy, I have a similar HV type setup that has a similar effect of putting a charge on an isolated copper coil that I've wound around a secondary as a tertiary.  Check out the station called Bellerian1 on youtube, the darsonval type devices show that experimentation. It is interesting that at HF HV there is some charge being pegged to the tertiary... I get a similar shock if I touch it after its been powered and power is off. There are other anomalies in the spark between parts too...

[FlavoredCoffeeGuy]

It looks like a single turn step down transformer. The copper pipe is acting like a secondary for the arc, and the coils you wound around it are acting as a secondary for the copper pipe. If you had a spark gap, you may be able to take advantage of a known avalanche effect. When an arc starts it moves more electrons than current provided. If measured across the gap, nothing extra is found. But, to explain all of the light and heat of the plasma, the energy must be there.

[morpher44]

@FlavoredCoffeeGuy

Yes. I had read that plumbers have to be careful if there is wiring near pipe as they can have induced currents. Yes I was experimenting with a spark gap .. and you can create arcing within the cylinder as well. This experiment was inspired by the Hendershot Generator. Go bigger on the cylinder size and the effects can be more dramatic. Experiment with different materials too such as IRON wire instead of copper for the coil .. and carbon in the capacitor to make it SUPER.

[tylerturnbull1]

Is a coilpacitor related to a tesla coil?

[morpher44]

@tylerturnbull1

When you have a coil and capacitor connected across each other, you have a tank circuit. The idea here is ... why not make them ONE component and use geometry to your advantage? A Tesla coil has implicit capacitance ... every coil does. But you can build devices that have more or less capacitance using size, shape and various metalic materials.

[theonlybluecow]

this is SO COOL!!!! what are you using to poer it? a frequency generator? what frequency?

[morpher44]

I use a 555 timer circuit and ignition coil -- described in the book "Son of Tesla Coil". The frequency is from 800hz to around 3khz.

[morpher44]

btw, not mentioned in the video is that the coil sits on a rubber washer, with a felt spacer. The steel needle passes thru the felt spacer.

If you rub felt and copper, you get an electro-static charge build up on the inside of the tube. So lets have the rubbing be done by the spark-gap.

[frankensteinmoneymac]

What is that music you are using....is that original...I kinda like it.

Very interesting device there....Im gonna have to read up on that Hendershot fueless generator to see what exactly what that is all about.

[morpher44]

yeah. I like to mess around with GarageBand. You can watch the video I made for that one ... search for Zecromar on "ourstage".

[hq212]

The audio range had some effect on the operation, it rattle, help him to adjust it, now remember i was just a young man tooling around his father looking for attention when he share fooled around with his machine, there were many nights after his job we would smell paraffin around the house, that certain smell of old style electronics , he used to open up capacitor cans for the material in side, by the way we receive many inquires from time to time about dads device it is a please to see yours

[hq212]

Very interesting to once again hear the racket from the dive, my mother was not happy when the devive blew the top off in the dining room, also he was able to dial in the device so there was no longer a noise... M.J.H.

[morpher44]

yikes ... I better be careful.

I think having it resonate in the audio range has certain advantages for an inventor. They can hear the frequency, which is some ways much better than seeing it on a scope. But yes it gets annoying to those in the room.