Crystal Power CeLL by John Hutchison

[sutra]

Hi guys,
have a look at my new picture.....now I have the POWER.....

I still have to make it DC and...by the way, does anyone have an idea to measure electricity over 20KV without spending a million for a sci-fi meter?

Enjoy it,

Ciao

[jeanna]

Nice pic Sutra!,

LOL sci-fi meter 

I think the estimate way is to measure the length.

There is a technicality that these measurements are made on a sphere to sphere or a rounded rod to rounded where the diameter of the sphere is larger than the spark produced. This is so no corona escapes from a point.

With that behind you, 

these are for rods:

20 kv = 0.23 inches spark length
25 kv = 0.288
30 kv = 0.355 (=1 cm?)
35 kv = 0.43 inches
40 kv = 0.52 inches
45 kv = 0.625 inches
50 kv = 0.75 inches
55 kv = 0.9 inches
60 kv = 1.12 inches

I took this from A. D. Moore's Electrostatics book.

I hope this helps,

jeanna

[sutra]

HI Jenna,

I'm surprised that the gradings of POWER = SIZE are coming to me from a girl.....

..aren' t girls always repeating that size doesn't matter???  

Anyhow, I thank you very much for the hint, I'll try to measure the spark gap.


For anyone interested in the plans, please visit this web-site: it is packed of cool electronic stuff

http://www3.telus.net/chemelec/Projects/Projects.htm

Ciao

[sutra]

So, the maximum spark gap is 1.5 cm = 0,59 " and following the conversion chart kindly indicated by Jenna, it should be equal to an output of 42.8 KV: not too bad from an old scrapped Fiat 500 ignition Coil.

I'll try to pole my latest crystal cell with this high Voltage and I'll let you know the results.

Cheers

[sutra]

HI guys,
I've melted the mix in the cell once more and submitted to high voltage as shown in the picture while hardening.

The cell's output didn't increase dramaticaly but now I have a pressure of 0,06 mA in stead of nothing at all. The voltage is a pityful 0,065 V but the mix is only 10 gr in total. As you can see, the voltage have been submitted with a gap and no temperature increase have been detected nor other unusual behaviours.. Do you have any suggestion?