Ωmega Machine - My gift to the world.

[resonanceman]

Since Stephans last post ,something I have been thinking of for a while. I made a gold [and other metals] brushplating machine. Do you think gold plating would increase the life of these relays?
PS Would be very cheap to do
Chet

ramset   

what  other metals can you  do?

layers of the  right metals might  make  a  proof of concept electrinium  battery possible.


gary

[Yucca]

I don´t want to abuse my relays any more than I have because I have plans for them in future projects. I will set about making some relays out of solenoid coils and thin steel with copper and carbon contacts, that way I can thrash them and then retune and recontact etc.

I know Leyden jars have impressive voltage ratings but a typical Leyden jar only has a capacitance between 50 pf and 1 nF, doubtful it would manage to fire the relay once. I´ll try and get hold of some decent caps, It´s not the first time I´ve found myself wanting them.

Yucca.

[NightBlade]

Many thanks for the support. I will set about making one myself soon.

[Yucca]

Many thanks Yucca for these first tests.

Do you also have faster diodes like 1N5408 or BYT types diodes ?
The 1N4007
are too slow to catch all the high frequency spark pulses..
So better use only very fast diodes for these types of pulse circuits.

Also it could be very helpful to modify the relays and have copper
on graphite contact points.
Just try to rip the graphite out of a pencil and modify the relays with it,
so the spark is burning between the copper contacts and the pencil graphite
contacts.

Many thanks.

Stefan,

I only have 1n5819 (max rev V only 40V) and 1n4148 as alternatives. Do you think if I put a sperate 1n4148 bridge in parallel to the 1n4007 bridge it would help harvest the higher frequencies?

Yucca.

[ramset]

RES   I don't think there is a limit to what metals can be plated to each other, only where to get the different metals in solution 
Chet