Self-Running Generator powered by Static Electricity

[hansvonlieven]

G'day all,

Using an electrophorus for the generation of static electricity is not a very good way to go about it. There are far better ways, though you will be hard pushed these days to find someone who can think of any other mechanical way of generating it than the notoriously inefficient Wimshurst Machine.

For people that are interested in static electricity there is a little known book that was published in 1922. The book is:

Modern High-Speed Influence Machines
by V. E. Johnson

It is still considered the Bible of Static Electricity. Long out of print, there is now a reprint available from:     http://www.arcsandsparks.com/Johnson.html

Not only does the book go into all aspects of static electricity it also shows in detail (with photographs) machines the author built including an electrostatic motor that produces from memory 5/8 hp! I thoroughly recommend this as essential reading [ No, I do not get a commission :-) ]

Hans von Lieven

[armagdn03]

HA HA HA HA HA HA Awesome, this one brought a real smile to my face. He had an idea for years, decided on a whim to make it, and he has NOTHING to gain! he knocking on heavens door at his age, and im sure the reward he will find will be a duzy! Bravo!

[Mem]

I always wondered, if we can not use for instance 2 electrostatic liquids
and whirl them in 2 chambers and extract from one
positive charge carriers and from the other one
negative charge carries (electrons) via friction ?

I think this will definately defy Lentz law,
so you need less input power for a bigger output.

Mr. Owens seems to have done it with sheepwool
rubbing on copper coils..

Regards, Stefan.

Hello Stefan, 
I like your idea here. what you said above. Can you make a conceptual drowing based on how you think may work?

and I will attempt to build this (If I have the right parts)

I found out that Rabbit fur highly recomended to use for generate static electricty.
(I wonder if this will help to Mr. Owns. LOL) 

How about this picture here below: It's totaly amazing how much static (DC) power generates using small hand crank!
How much energy (in watts) do you think takes to speen this plexy glass wheel? 1 or 2 watts? Or even less?

see the machine in action here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05s3zkBPewg
You can almost smell the ozone .

Mem

[hartiberlin]

Hi Mem,
well done !

Please try to put a car ignition coil with a small spark gap
(only about 1 mm distance) into the discharge area,
so the high voltage sparks would jump via the 1 mm sparkgap and
via the secondary of the ignition coil.
Then you could get lower voltage high current pulses on the primary
of the ignitioncoil and charge up with that via a bridge rectifier bridge
large low voltage caps and then can try to run a DC motor with it,
which would turn your discs !

Please try it and let us know,
Many thanks.

Regards, Stefan.

P.S: You could also try via 2 Avramenko plugs
on each High Voltage pole to charge up the Avramenko plug caps.
But this would only work, if there is an AC component in it.

[argona369]

Hi Mem,

Nice pvc sectorless wimshurst,
Where did you get the plan?
What size discs?