Leyden jar / saltwater capacitor high voltage sparks

Turns out that Snapple bottles make for a good capacitor - I call it a leyden jar because technically the salt water acts as a conductor just as tin foil inside the glass would in a traditional setup.

What a capacitor does - as these jars do here - is hold onto the voltage until it cant hold any more, then it lets go of it all at once. This increases the amperage from my 30ma 15kv power supply to .. well i havent measured it, but something more than 30ma!

The high voltage goes into the tin foil outside of the jar on the left, then it gets inducted through the glass to the saltwater inside - the nail in the center of the saltwater is not touching the tin foil at all, so it has no place to go ... except that a mirror of this setup is on the right side .. so the 2 capacitors are discarching to each other then recharging over and over, faster than we can see! Hundreds or thousands of times per second.

This is the kind of spark thats bright and loud and I wore welding goggles for when taping! This would certainly kill you with no second chances if one was to touch it - the same voltage with higher amperage makes it even more dangerous.




Remember, I know what I am doing, do not attempt to recreate without proper training.

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[antwan472]

could that hurt me?

[TechnoW1zard]

@antwan472

yes, it could hurt you. do NOT try this unless you are absolutely sure you know what you are doing AND why it works - and even then make sure someone who knows CPR is there with you

[Jebus495]

Could this be a light source?

If you could get the air in the spark gap close to superconductance the recharging of each capacitor would be efficient requiring small input? :o

[chilidress]

ill try this at school..

[BloKK187]

old grandpas shouldnt play with High Voltage !!!

[Morkvonork]

Isnt it better to have venting holes in it? In case there builds up some hydrogen/oxygen as electrolysis byproduct?

[deathbytnt]

@HackCracksKeygens yours hust have been shit

[HackCracksKeygens]

HaHa, I've made many of these for a few of my T coils, I accidentally got shocked and I tell you it fucking hurt.

[tylerfry97]

@sweetdreams4t to the top nail and to the tin foil

[OptomisCrashdown]

my power supply is only 1000V but at 1100ma, would this still work?