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  • if its moving it is no longer static looks to be in the 100's of thousands of volts should it not be called friction charged electricity i think static is misleading

  • To bad there are not 6 to 12 discs working in parallel as to get greater current. But than again, that might be for the better as you don't want to kill yourself accidentally.

    Nice work!

  • could you power this by the wind and charge a battery with it?

  • @Iseekoutthetruth

    If it could be done, it would not be very practical. A conventional generator produces more current at less voltage, which is better suited for charging batteries and providing real power.

  • thats was kick ass man, subbed, sub back, we're curious to know, what are the beer bottles, the lyden jars? and what is the metal on the spinning wheel?

  • yeah i agre, but can u make a totorial about it? Plz. Nice work there! xD

  • Very Nice work .Nice sparks too!

  • what is this for?

  • generating static

  • Very Nice work all prodjects looking good

    Home made lazer WOW !

    Thanks for sharing your work All vids worth watching

  • ball lightening should not be that hard if i understand teslas stuff good enough should be as easy as take a piece of glass(flat) about 3 inches around should be good. light a candle and carbon black one side of the glass in the middle place the glass between your spark gap close the gap some and let the spark go through the carbon on the glass if i understand it correctly the ball will bounce off the carboned side of the glass. Try carbon on both sides of the spark gap.

  • your after the carbon from the candle flame not the heat so dont get the glass to hot it will break!

    it works somthing like the electrons will penetrate the glass but some of the energy wont and it will stay suspended on the carbon side for .5 to 1 second if the voltage is high enough and i suspect from the length of the sparks your getting at least 50k volts and thats conservitive est.

  • I'm very new to this. Are there comparative advantages or disadvantages in building a Holtz generator as opposed to a Bonetti generator? I can certainly see how both are better than a Wimshurst generator since there's less physical contact with the disk. Or am I wrong about that?

    Like I said, I'm new. :D

    I wanna try my hand at a Kelvin water dropper with leyden jars like you use on your Bonetti generator. :D

  • Your machine looks like a Alien Robot, and wicked Sparks. Nice job.

  • Now to make ball lightning with your machine. But I'm sure you think I'm being funny.

    Cheers.

  • Cool design. Looks like some kind of strange Alien robot. Nice sparks too!

  • whooooaahh... cool.. but what is the machine used for?

  • Someone ask if I can get a continuous spark. Sorry, but I must have deleted it when trying to respond. But to answer the question, without Leyden jar capacitors, very short sparks can be produced that appear continuous to the eye. But these are very thin sparks. Frequency of sparks are therefore determined by capacitance. So no: the machine will not poduce a continuous arc in the same sense that a high voltage transformer will.

  • Do you know where we can have the plans for this machine??

    I look all over internet and i can't find it!!

    BTW. Nice achivement!!!

  • Yes. Type 'electrostatic machines' in your search engine. One of the first links that will come up is Dr. Antonio Carlos' website. You will find instructions for this machine, along with many others, on his site.

  • VERY NICE. Have you ever tried to harness the energy in any way?

  • Yes. I use electrostatic machines as power sources for my experimental lasers.

  • i was thinking of a way that you could step down the voltage and feed the motor . Have you ever tried something similar?

  • Are you talking about using this machine as a power supply for ordinary electric motors?

  • well why not? But i am only asking IF you have ever tried something like that

  • u might b able to rig sumthing. static is high voltage and low current but if u ran it through a step down transformer it should raise the current while lowering the voltage thus making it usable as a friction dynamo. im currently working on sumthing similar

  • I would be interested in seeing the details when it is complete. Sounds very exciting.

  • thank u. i will but it will take at least several months as im just now starting to study these machines. im actually just now building the vdg to supply the power. it will also take me awhile to adjust the tesla coil(connected backwards) and lyden jars(to convert to ac)but i will post if it works ha ha

  • No. The current is too low to power a normal electric motor. Normal motors run with low voltage and high currents. This machine produces high voltage at low currents. However, it can power an electrostatic motor. Refer to 'electrostatic motor' on the web, to see what I am talking about.

  • The performance is impressive.

  • Thank you.

  • Very good ^_^, I'm like,, I'm thinking in make also one.

    Best regards

  • Makes a good power supply for projects that require high voltages, at low currents. A Wimshurst, however, is the easiest machine to use. A Wimshurst is self-starting, and does not reverse polarity unless stopped.

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