Testatika small machine testbed

[karl]

Steven,
have you implied the electrophorus principle in one of your machines?
Are they preloaded by rubbing the disks or stators with a cloth (basicly a kind of an electret).
Mr. Hyde's basic principle to cancle out the backdrag forces is to leave the total capacity every time in the rotation the same.
This is not  the classic work to potentional conversion while changing the capacity (basic Electrophorus) but the increasing of a partial capacity and a decreasing of an other partial capacity at the same time in a sine wave manner to get harmonic and continous electron flow.
Best wishes
Karl

[Steven Dufresne]

@ Steve - I'm looking at makeing the disks first to get the Ion flow. In the back tower off the motor using a gum rubber belt (Van De Graph type ) runnig the radious of the disk to produse ion flow to the disks. One the Quratz stone , in that area of the swizz the stone there is high in lead , much of the industry in the past was makeing glass, and later makeing optic blanks so I'm filimaure with the matreials. these are natural Electrcts, and plastics of sorts are to depending how there used. Ceramic Eletrcts can be found in old microphones that are great for expierimenting with. still studying. Did you get the Hamel drum up and running ?  thanks Mike 

Mike,
Thanks for the response. Sounds like an interesting starting place. I won't pester you for further
details for now since I know you probably need to the time to build it.
Re the Hamel drum, it didn't work for me though from showing it to David Hamel I learned enough to
make another attempt. However, time doesn't permit. I focus on testatika instead.
-Steve
http://rimstar.org

[TheOne]

Hi, I'am trying to find this book "Electrical Influence Machines" related to the Pidgeon machine that looks like a testatika, I want to understand how it work, but i cannot find the book on the net, I see one site where you can buy but you need to read it online, Since i hate staying in front of the computer to read stuff like that, I prefer to print it, So is someone know a link or have the orignal doc in PDF format?

Thanks

[TheOne]

lol I was able to find one but its online, at least its free here the link for the one who are interested

http://www.electrotherapymuseum.com/2007/ElectricalInfluenceMachines/index.htm

but i rather prefer to have a PDF version

[Motorcoach1]

My pouter was down for a while and I have made some progress on the machine. I made up some polycarbonate Lexan disks and used copper foil on the front disk and aluminum foil ( air duct foil tape on the back disk .Ã,  the drive system works great , I switcted to a leather belt drive to improve the smoothness and grip to the sheves. the motor runs @ 5 to 15 volts @ 1 to 2 amps and stays cool for long run times , at this point I'm looking for a new motor that is brushless If any on know where to get one that would be appriciated. I need to get some brass screws to make the collectors. I used aluminum screen on the collector pads an will test these to see how well they work out. I have ordered some glass for the laten jars they are the globes from large Addis and Coleman gas latrens, these ar readily avalible and are fairly inexpencive and can be stacked with lead channel from a stain glass supplyer localy, I make stain glass so I have a large stock.Ã,   the bottem pic is the front glass disk , I need to make new hubs and newer type bearings and will be building this machine for testing when my lath gets here , I made all the pullies and sheves by hand on a drill press and hole saws this is very time consuming and had to make a few sets to get the ratios right for the weight of the disks and spin RPMs .All the parts were salvaged from scraped out printers and power tools that had seen better days to keep the cost down in the expierimental machines and the plastic was donated by my boss and i thank him.Ã,