Re: [Vo]: Re: Fred's Van de Graaff Antics

2007-02-15 Thread Frederick Sparber
t; From: "Frederick Sparber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 12:44 PM > Subject: Re: [Vo]: Re: Fred's Van de Graaff Antics > > > > If you have the patience, this CalTech Electric Field Applet can > > be used to set up a simulati

Re: [Vo]: Re: Fred's Van de Graaff Antics

2007-02-15 Thread John Berry
> [Original Message] >> From: Michel Jullian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: >> Date: 2/15/2007 3:34:23 AM >> Subject: Re: [Vo]: Re: Fred's Van de Graaff Antics >> >> >> - Original Message - >> From: "John Berry" <[EMAIL P

Re: [Vo]: Re: Fred's Van de Graaff Antics

2007-02-15 Thread Michel Jullian
hich you would define conductors and total charge and which would work out charge distribution for you, this may exist. Michel - Original Message - From: "Frederick Sparber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 12:44 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]: Re: Fred's

Re: [Vo]: Re: Fred's Van de Graaff Antics

2007-02-15 Thread Frederick Sparber
evice with the negative charge pumped from the inner sphere to the surrounding outer sphere by the VDG. But don't bet on it. :-) Fred > [Original Message] > From: Michel Jullian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Date: 2/15/2007 3:34:23 AM > Subject: Re: [Vo]: Re: Fred's

Re: [Vo]: Re: Fred's Van de Graaff Antics

2007-02-15 Thread John Berry
On 2/15/07, Michel Jullian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No, not kW levels, in fact you can get what I described from a 12w flyback > that powers a plasma globe. How cute, is this what you tried to fly your lifter with? Of course not.

Re: [Vo]: Re: Fred's Van de Graaff Antics

2007-02-15 Thread Michel Jullian
- Original Message - From: "John Berry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 9:59 AM Subject: Re: [Vo]: Re: Fred's Van de Graaff Antics >> You can calculate i*d/2E-4 (i current in A, d gap in m) for yourself can't >> you? W

Re: [Vo]: Re: Fred's Van de Graaff Antics

2007-02-15 Thread John Berry
On 2/15/07, Michel Jullian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: - Original Message - From: "John Berry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 5:06 AM Subject: Re: [Vo]: Re: Fred's Van de Graaff Antics > On 2/5/07, Michel Jullian <[EMAIL

Re: [Vo]: Re: Fred's Van de Graaff Antics

2007-02-15 Thread Michel Jullian
- Original Message - From: "John Berry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 5:06 AM Subject: Re: [Vo]: Re: Fred's Van de Graaff Antics > On 2/5/07, Michel Jullian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> It won't rise but

Re: [Vo]: Re: Fred's Van de Graaff Antics

2007-02-14 Thread John Berry
No, it's just a pin point vaporization and carbonization of skin, the soldering iron will burn and either leave skin hard, or if hotter it will make skin slough off so it's quite different. Obviously if the ma's are too high it is worse and if rectified to DC and maybe a cap to rectify easily dea

Re: [Vo]: Re: Fred's Van de Graaff Antics

2007-02-14 Thread Harry Veeder
John Berry wrote: Actually the only thing you feel is a pin point burn and the smell of burning skin, plus a buzzing. If it wasn't for the burn it's not painful though possibly irritating. Is it like grabbing an electric soldiering iron at the hot end? I did that when I was 12, believing it ha

Re: [Vo]: Re: Fred's Van de Graaff Antics

2007-02-14 Thread John Berry
On 2/5/07, Michel Jullian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It won't rise but some of the ions will go round or even through the paper so you'll get some remaining thrust, it's very hard to insulate high voltages. Anyway no one serious in the field still doubts the ion wind hypothesis, for thousands o

Re: [Vo]: Re: Fred's Van de Graaff Antics

2007-02-14 Thread Robin van Spaandonk
In reply to Michel Jullian's message of Sat, 3 Feb 2007 15:50:20 +0100: Hi, [snip] >BTW I also have an untried design for an autonomous lifter (designed to take >off vertically and hover for a few mn while carrying it's own power supply, >would be a world first if it works), if anyone is interes

Re: [Vo]: Re: Fred's Van de Graaff Antics

2007-02-04 Thread thomas malloy
Someone posted the idea of powering their lifter with batteries. I'd like to suggest a MHD generator. It would seem to me that ti would be lighter, I don't know about the price though. This is a device several guys on this list could build and test. Harry --- http://USFam

Re: [Vo]: Re: Fred's Van de Graaff Antics

2007-02-04 Thread Harry Veeder
Michel Jullian wrote: > It won't rise but some of the ions will go round or even through the paper so > you'll get some remaining thrust, it's very hard to insulate high voltages. Well one could also do what Stephen A. Lawrence suggested earlier. Put the lifter inside a box and place the box on a

Re: [Vo]: Re: Fred's Van de Graaff Antics

2007-02-04 Thread Michel Jullian
few mA) can be lethal, and hurt a lot in the very least (feels a bit like having your arm caught in a meat chopper I was told). Michel - Original Message - From: "Harry Veeder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2007 9:50 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]: Re: Fred&#x

Re: [Vo]: Re: Fred's Van de Graaff Antics

2007-02-04 Thread Harry Veeder
Michel Jullian wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "Harry Veeder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2007 2:01 AM > Subject: Re: [Vo]: Re: Fred's Van de Graaff Antics > > >> Michel Jullian wrote: >>

Re: [Vo]: Re: Fred's Van de Graaff Antics

2007-02-03 Thread Michel Jullian
- Original Message - From: "Harry Veeder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2007 2:01 AM Subject: Re: [Vo]: Re: Fred's Van de Graaff Antics > Michel Jullian wrote: > >> Sure Harry it's ion wind. Naudin's comment, athough

Re: [Vo]: Re: Fred's Van de Graaff Antics

2007-02-03 Thread Harry Veeder
d would be fixed to the struts of the lifter. Harry > - Original Message - > From: "Harry Veeder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2007 4:13 AM > Subject: Re: [Vo]: Re: Fred's Van de Graaff Antics > > >> Michel Ju

Re: [Vo]: Re: Fred's Van de Graaff Antics

2007-02-03 Thread Michel Jullian
ny lithium-polymer batteries :))) Michel - Original Message - From: "Michel Jullian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2007 3:07 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]: Re: Fred's Van de Graaff Antics > Sure Harry it's ion wind. Naudin's comment, athough

Re: [Vo]: Re: Fred's Van de Graaff Antics

2007-02-03 Thread Michel Jullian
essarily upwards BTW). Michel - Original Message - From: "Harry Veeder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2007 4:13 AM Subject: Re: [Vo]: Re: Fred's Van de Graaff Antics > Michel Jullian wrote: > >> In spite of, or rather thanks to the ion f

Re: [Vo]: Re: Fred's Van de Graaff Antics

2007-02-02 Thread Harry Veeder
Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: > > > Harry Veeder wrote: >> Michel Jullian wrote: >> >>> In spite of, or rather thanks to the ion fan out feature, this design has >>> beaten as I had expected all other lifter designs in terms of thrust per >>> unit >>> area, by a comfortable margin (3 times that of

Re: [Vo]: Re: Fred's Van de Graaff Antics

2007-02-02 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Harry Veeder wrote: Michel Jullian wrote: In spite of, or rather thanks to the ion fan out feature, this design has beaten as I had expected all other lifter designs in terms of thrust per unit area, by a comfortable margin (3 times that of a standard lifter e.g. Naudin's, 1.5 times that of a

Re: [Vo]: Re: Fred's Van de Graaff Antics

2007-02-02 Thread Harry Veeder
Michel Jullian wrote: > In spite of, or rather thanks to the ion fan out feature, this design has > beaten as I had expected all other lifter designs in terms of thrust per unit > area, by a comfortable margin (3 times that of a standard lifter e.g. > Naudin's, 1.5 times that of a flat grid De Sev

[Vo]: Re: Fred's Van de Graaff Antics

2007-02-02 Thread Michel Jullian
- Original Message - From: "Michael Foster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 11:54 PM Subject: [Vo]: Fred's Van de Graaff Antics ... > Therefore, an object with a strong negative charge will charge > the earth locally positive by induction and your spheres will >