Single Wire Tests

[M@rcel]

now, what did Tesla say about Leyden jars?

Nice article, thanks M@rcel.
I think it is that famous pic of Tesla sitting reading something with lightning blazing over his head that shows a large box of (a bank of) leyden style capacitors. Anyway they are caps and I always assumed they were leyden jars. Ben Franklin used them in many of his experiments... etc.

jeanna

No, I believe it was in some interview Tesla gave. Afaik he said something like that capacitors were extraordinary and that he liked the Leyden jars best. I wonder if that is because they are cilindrical. What would sphere caps do? I've seen quite a few patents using spherical capacitors.

[hansvonlieven]

A Van de Graaf generator is a kind of spherical capacitor.



Hans von Lieven

[M@rcel]

A Van de Graaf generator is a kind of spherical capacitor.

yes, but I meant two spheres, one inside the other. btw what would be an easy and good way to create cilindrical or spherical caps?

[Localjoe]

@all

I need to find the document but i remember something very similar to this concept they were calling it a 3rd kind of electricity, I don't agree with there nomenclature. Anyways it was a electrolysis setup and this mysterious 3rd current or whatever they want to call it showed up between the neutral plates between the electrodes. The load they ran off of it supposedly didn't load or affect the psu controlling the electrolysis, no change in amps or volts on the driven electrodes when a suitable load was applied to the neutral ones.  Sorry if this is no help i will keep searching through my backups.
                                                                                                          Joe

[hansvonlieven]

A Van de Graaf generator is a kind of spherical capacitor.

yes, but I meant two spheres, one inside the other. btw what would be an easy and good way to create cilindrical or spherical caps?

Make a sphere of a dielectric, coat it with conductive paint, electroplate, coat it with insulating lacquer, apply conductive paint, electroplate......and so on

The problem is drilling a hole and connect every second layer to one terminal and every other layer to a different terminal

Hans von Lieven