Hi Sparrow, The spark plug method was written about back in 43 in the Popular Mechanics mag.
Have done it and it works. Need dry air (low humidity) for it to work. Below 40% RH. Damp wet air won't allow a charge to build up. The capacitor is not required but does help. Bless you Bob Lee Scharbach wrote: > But I will. Although it does not meet the parameters of Bob's request, > (ie, I have not tried it myself) > I thought there was a possibility that someone BESIDES Bob, might be > interested. . . . . . . . . > > Sparrow > > Here is a reprint from the gentleman that provided the instructions. > "What Wiley did at the rip old age of 12 or 13 was hook a sparkplug to the > end of the wire and then run the ground end (where the threads are) into a > 12 volt coil off an old A model, but any old coil will do. The bottom > connector of the coil that used to go to the points is hooked to the > positive side of the battery. The negative side of the battery is hooked to > a good earth ground and a 1 to 3 KV capacitor (a few microfarad type like > those found in the horizontal section of a television chassis) is hooked > from ground back to the wire where the top of the sparkplug is connected. > That's it! Nothing should be touching ground except the ground post of the > battery. Wiley was using about 200 feet of insulated wire and it will > completely charge a 12 volt deep cycle every 2 or 3 days! A thousand feet of > wire will do it a lot quicker but the voltages approach lethal levels. > What is behind this feat is that a very long wire acts like a capacitor and > builds a charge on the wire. When a few thousand volts are reached, it will > discharge by "sparking" across the sparkplug. The sparkplug delivers the > charge to the coil that down-converts it to a few hundred volts and pulses > the battery, kind of "squirting" a charge into it. The weather controls how > much static electricity is in the air. Wind and super cold air seem to > really make you think you can weld with this thing! I hooked a small neon > bulb to a full wave loop on winter night when it was snowing with a high > wind and the bulb burned continuously all night long! The higher you get the > wire of the ground the better. The wire has to be completely insulated. It > doesn't seem to make any difference whether you lay it out in a straight > line or weave it back and forth. Length is the thing here, not size. Old > phone wire, old coax from the cable company, anything that is insulated and > long will do the job. I use my Ham radio antennas, as they are up and long > already. This thing will weld the fillings in your teeth together if you are > not careful with it! " > > >"d.linen" wrote: > > > >> Hi Bob, > >> > >> I won't bother you any more. > >> > >> Diane > > -- > The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. > > To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: > silver-list-requ...@eskimo.com -or- silver-digest-requ...@eskimo.com > with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. > > To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com > Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html > List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com> -- oozing on the muggy shore of the gulf coast l...@fbtc.net
