Hello! Lighting a fluorescent bulb with the Van De Graf is indeed work performed, but how much power is the Van using to light the bulb? I have a question for everyone; Can the high voltage from an electrostatic machine be channeled through a homopolar generator that will increase the high voltage's amplitude? If you could get the 10 or 20 thousand volts coming out of your electrostatic genny to have 5 or 6 amps, this would be usable juice. And, classical homopolar gennys use a disc within a magnetic field. Can't one be built that is Tubular? A tubular design would, it seems to me, decrease the force needed to turn the rotor, since the radius between the axle and load would be very small. Of course, cooling might be a problem in this design. Maybe Walter's machine is wired in a similar way; just as the magnets are about to stroke the coils, the electrostatics are piped through the coils simultaneously, resulting in a higher, usable amplitude. An electrostatically induced magneto? I don't understand why Walter needs 4 car batteries, though. Maybe he is using a 'Split the Positive' circuit. Mitch ----- Original Message ----- From: GABE KOUSOUROS To: Interact Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2006 5:33 PM Subject: Re: [Keelynet] Static electricity
RALLY MY VAN DE GRAAF LIGHT A FLORESENT LIGHT BULB ISNT THAT WORK? GABE Mitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 11/20/06 - Self-Running Generator powered by Static Electricity Interesting article. Walter is right that static is everywhere. But it has its set of 'special' problems. I have played around quite a bit with static elctricity, even to the point of building my own very large Van de Graf. The one thing that I could not do was to hold on to the charge long enough to get it to any useful work. It just wouldn't stay in the wires. Every time I tried to make a transformer with static, the juice simply ignored the coil, and went wherever it wanted to, including right through the dielectric. It was like trying to push a rope. I wonder how this guy solved this problem, if indeed this is even legit. Another problem is static's dependancy on lower humidity conditions. Moisture seems to 'kill' the field, so how does Walter's machine perform on a rainy day? I think we need to find this Walter Owens guy, and his pending Patent. Mitch ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Access over 1 million songs - Yahoo! Music Unlimited. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.14.14/548 - Release Date: 11/23/2006