Coilpacitor

After reading a lot about Hendershot's Fueless Generator, I got this idea of trying a coil around a copper cylinder. I'm starting small to see if there is an effect. Wow! There is one.
This is not unlike Hendershot's coils that he wrapped around his hand-made capacitors.
We see a charge build up in the cylinder, easily observed by touching the cylinder and getting a shock even when it is OFF.
This is an easy way to create a mini-Van De Graaff generator.
Please replicate if you have the time.

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Science & Technology

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• Van
• De
• Graaf
• Coilpacitor
• Tesla
• Hendershot
• Fueless
• Generator

[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.

[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...

[morpher44]

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

[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.