Lord Kelvin Electric Spark Generator

This video shows tips on how to make a working Lord Kelvin generator that will make sparks of thousands of volts of electricity from two small streams of dripping water. For more details on construction and debugging, see my website http://home.comcast.net/~useyourmind/site/?/page/Lord_Kelvin_Electric_Spark_G...

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Science & Technology

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• science project
• electricity
• sparks

[DyckOnAByck]

does humidity have a huge factor in this?

[zealoustinkerer]

@DyckOnAByck Could be. You know how static electricity builds up much more in the winter when the air is dry.

[TheAugustRush1]

do u need to charge ne thing initially?

[zealoustinkerer]

@TheAugustRush1 Just pour in the water and start it dripping.

[dragonbreath11238]

please help what are those wires you used

[zealoustinkerer]

@dragonbreath11238 The wires are 18g solid insulated.

[pinkybrain6]

i challange you to build it in a way so that it can be used to desalinate water

[lefthendrix]

I wonder what would happen if the first set of buckets we're copper coils instead? maybe even dual coils insulated from each other? maybe it could use tesla's coil theory to amplify the effect, and pick up

ambient energy? just some crazy thoughts I've had? keep up the good work!

[lefthendrix]

call me crazy,

[lefthendrix]

what happens if you use a smaller nozzle in you pressurized the water flow? also can you use to be on the bottom bucket up to the top that will continually flow, just like on divinci device?

[joshd9124]

r we allowed to reuse the water over and over

[josephdupont]

what is you put multiple units in series ????

[rensseak]

let the water to pass trough a copper wire spiral.