On Mon, 4 May 2009, Crusoe wrote: > On the airthreads thing, I now have several small high voltage power > supplies I've acquired from scavenging monitors/scanners. These are > used to normally drive small flourescent tubes used to light the > monitor/scanner. Do you think they might work for air threads?
Those CCFL drivers are AC, and I found that Tesla coils won't generate the threads (presumably they're a continuous flow of charge, DC.) A VandeGraaff machine works well, and creates "threads" from many feet distance. (((((((((((((((((( ( ( ( ( (O) ) ) ) ) ))))))))))))))))))) William J. Beaty SCIENCE HOBBYIST website billb at amasci com http://amasci.com EE/programmer/sci-exhibits amateur science, hobby projects, sci fair Seattle, WA 206-762-3818 unusual phenomena, tesla coils, weird sci --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Website: http://saturdayhouse.org/ Post: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
