A-King 21 - build discussion /investigation

[AlienGrey]

You know better than that.          All my demonstrations are done with commonly available and usually very cheap materials.

In that video, the levitating Gray Matter is an ordinary pingpong ball painted with conductive nickel paint. The Volt Hoses are common bead chain, the little VanDeGraaff machine is made from stainless steel bowls from a restaurant supply store, its internal parts are made of pvc foamcore, paper clips and shimstock, a mabuchi can motor, and a belt made from wide rubber bands, and it is powered by a 12 volt motorcycle battery. Not counting the battery the most expensive parts are the switches. (One for power, and one for motor direction using the Secret of DPDT.) The antigravity chamber is a couple of plastic food containers. The chamber electrodes are pieces of aluminum duct tape carefully shaped and stuck down inside the chamber. And the "magic foil enhancer" is just another piece of that same aluminum duct tape with the backing still on, held in an alligator clip on the end of a bamboo chopstick. It is very important that the chopstick be bamboo.... and I am not kidding at all. The bamboo of the chopstick is like a million megohm resistor to slowly and gracefully drain away some of the high voltage static charge that builds up on the outside of the container and tends to neutralize the antigravity effect. Draining away _some_ of this exterior charge by using the Enhancer connected to the Chopstick connected to the experimenter's Hand allows the AG effect to build up to full strength again. If I used a fully conductive link -- well you can imagine what might happen.    As someone who has actually exploded a 0.3 uF, 30 kV Maxwell oil-filled pulse capacitor -- Much Bigger than that grenade up above -- by rapidly discharging it in a severely overvolted state, and nearly died as a result .... all I can say is Be Careful.

EDIT: Be F......G careful. I got another chance. You might not.

[AlienGrey]

You know better than that.          All my demonstrations are done with commonly available and usually very cheap materials.

In that video, the levitating Gray Matter is an ordinary pingpong ball painted with conductive nickel paint. The Volt Hoses are common bead chain, the little VanDeGraaff machine is made from stainless steel bowls from a restaurant supply store, its internal parts are made of pvc foamcore, paper clips and shimstock, a mabuchi can motor, and a belt made from wide rubber bands, and it is powered by a 12 volt motorcycle battery. Not counting the battery the most expensive parts are the switches. (One for power, and one for motor direction using the Secret of DPDT.) The antigravity chamber is a couple of plastic food containers. The chamber electrodes are pieces of aluminum duct tape carefully shaped and stuck down inside the chamber. And the "magic foil enhancer" is just another piece of that same aluminum duct tape with the backing still on, held in an alligator clip on the end of a bamboo chopstick. It is very important that the chopstick be bamboo.... and I am not kidding at all. The bamboo of the chopstick is like a million megohm resistor to slowly and gracefully drain away some of the high voltage static charge that builds up on the outside of the container and tends to neutralize the antigravity effect. Draining away _some_ of this exterior charge by using the Enhancer connected to the Chopstick connected to the experimenter's Hand allows the AG effect to build up to full strength again. If I used a fully conductive link -- well you can imagine what might happen.    As someone who has actually exploded a 0.3 uF, 30 kV Maxwell oil-filled pulse capacitor -- Much Bigger than that grenade up above -- by rapidly discharging it in a severely overvolted state, and nearly died as a result .... all I can say is Be Careful.

EDIT: Be F......G careful. I got another chance. You might not.

You had an NDE?

[TinselKoala]

You could call it that. I was working alone in a remote building at the Alameda Naval Air Station near San Francisco, performing wire explosion segmentation experiments. I used a Bonetti machine capable of 350,000 volts to charge the pulse capacitor and an overvolt limited air gap made from a couple of large stainless steel bowls to set the voltage of the discharge into the wire sample. I had done several shots with the gap set at distance for 50 kV or so and was charging for another shot when I noticed it was taking longer to charge and fire than usual. Meaning that more voltage was going onto the cap than usual. I got the Allah Pole (a long nonconductive stick with a shorting bar on the far end) and stuck it into the gap to initiate the discharge -- and the capacitor exploded, sending shards of its plastic case all over the lab, along with hot oil, and it caught fire. Fortunately I was wearing a full face shield and earmuffs. But that's not what nearly killed me. After I put out the fire I was safetying the big hunk of the shattered capacitor by stringing a wire across the remains of the terminals, and I accidentally brushed my hands somehow to make contact. There was enough charge left in the destroyed capacitor to knock me down and out. I was only out for a few seconds probably and fortunately I didn't hit my head on anything... but there wasn't another person around for a mile in any direction. I could very easily have been seriously injured or killed.

I was very very lucky, and I like to think I'm experienced and know what I'm doing. Your mileage may vary.

[ramset]

Yeesh  late EDIT  Thank you for sharing just how dangerous these seemingly "safe if handled properly" components can be ....go to the next level [ unexpected product failure ??]safety 3rd ...

AG what is "had an NDE" [feels good to ask you about some letters I should probably know ??you can answer in your above post where you ask ...if it doesn't time out [will check it

NOTE " I corrected my above link you quoted ..HF donations from Wesley to HV ,all 50 thousand volt control circuits for electron beam microscope has MONSTER 50 KV oil bath transformer with MINUTIA super fine control and support system [Wesley says trafo still 80K item from Company who builds them] all super insulated ceramic switches... caps and who knows what else ...was a 1.5 mil piece of Japanese technology

now Careful members here and elsewhere can use in experiments...

[a.king21]

But can it charge a home-made "Big Capactor" ?  LOL....

At least you can actually see the needle move on my voltmeter -- and I don't need to do my demonstrations in the dark.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eogpGHFgV6E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-aP7sk48jw
It's antigravity all right... but is it OU?   

I don't see the relevance to the Heavyside component.