I can only speak to what I have had success with. Bottom roller nylon, top roller either Teflon or white PVC, belt vinyl impregnated nylon. Be careful when...
... under CERTAIN circumstances the ground wire can become VERY hot, electrically. This is not a good thing at all.. you get some very strange readings running...
You wrote: "under CERTAIN circumstances the ground wire can become VERY hot, electrically. This is not a good thing at all." This should never happen under...
... we use plastic pipe here.. BUT the circumstance in question was a very long ground wire..about 200 feets worth of 'just being there, it created an antenna,...
Hello Everyone, I am new to the group and wanted to share my photos of my VDG and hopefully learn a few things. After seeing some of the beautiful machines...
Todd: It takes talent to build something from junk parts. You don't have to make excuses for something that represents a lot of ingenuity. My small VDG uses ...
... to make ... VDG uses ... with the ... corona ring ... wet the ... Dick, Thanks for your kind reply. I have had an awful lot of fun building and using this...
Todd: Between two 1 cm diameter spheres, 30Kv per centimeter at one atmosphere and (I forget) ?% relative humidity. As you can see there are several variables....
Hi Dick and all, I really like your idea for the corona ring. Have you ever tried splitting the tubing along its length and silver soldering the outside to...
I haven't posted in a while because I have been working on the machine. I first achieved about a 3 inch spark with the newly built VDG, but with the addition...
Experiments: Like charges repel-(1) pie plate full of rice krispies placed on top of the VDG (before you start it up!) stand by with a vacuum cleaner. (2)...
Build a LEYDEN BUCKET!!!! Look at my pictures of a 5 gallon Leyden Bucket. Caution! It can KILL!!!! When it discharges to ground it sounds like a .38 caliber...
Hi would you mind mailing it to me please the word doc that is blumation_at_gmail_dot_com Kind Regards BLULANDER ... placed ... cleaner. ... of crepe ... ...
Mail you what? Are you referring to the aluminum strip?? E-mail surely messed up my diagram. There is no word doc, I tried the sketch directly on the e-mail...
Todd, I am new to this group too, and Mr Dick Linder, for one, has provided me with some kind replies also. So, CHEERS to Dick. I just wanted to say thanks,...
Hi charlesbuthala could you try sending me the word doc to my gmail account the address is blumation_at_gmail_dot_com I mailed myself an 11 meg attachment ...
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I was looking at the photos of Dick's layden bucket, and was curious about how it works. It charges the inner bucket through the two ended rod with the...
I made a cap from aluminium foil (kitchin grade) mineral based gearbox oil and plastic sheeting I got from a decorators supply shop Then rolled it up it went...
Greetings All, Rolled capacitors are somewhat difficult to build sucessfully, although they do find occasional use in Tesla coil circuits. An excellent article...
Rolled capacitors were used extensively in the 90's by tesla coil builders. They were constructed w/ aluminum roofing flash and .60 to .80mil low density...
Leyden jars are great to demonstrate the energy stored in them, but as Dick said, "This one can kill you!". While the output current of small to medium Van De...
Hello all, I am curious as to why my VDG will only discharge at most 4" to another sphere connected to ground and only in a straight line and with bright thick...
Todd, Regular old lead-free plumbing solder will stick to stainless steel and copper. Use a non-organic liquid flux. I mention this because you seem to think...
My Leyden bucket is a 5 gal polyethylene bucket lined with aluminum foil on the outside and inside, including both surfaces of the bottom. The double ball rod...
I suspect you blew right through the plastic sheeting. All you need is one tiny flaw in the dielectric and Bang! You'll never get rid of the air bubbles...
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