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Registered Member #53
Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 04:31AM
Location: Ontario, Canada
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I was jsut thinking about using a mot but you saved me a good 30min of prep. Maby with a full wave rectifier and a big filter cap a mot or NST would work better.
Registered Member #99
Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 06:10PM
Location: florida, usa
Posts: 637
Ive got an idea for you guys...What about replacing the magnet with a coil of wire which is pulsed(like a coil gun). The ions from the flyback would be attracted and accelerated much like a coilgun no?
Seems you would need to find a way to insulate the coil so as to keep it from arcing, and have a target wire or something on the other end?
Registered Member #78
Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 11:27AM
Location: Sydney, Australia
Posts: 133
Sounds interesting, but the plasma quickly returns back to normal air once the energy source is removed
You might be able to get something interesting with an air cored electromagnet, 2 electrodes at the openings, and setting up an oscillating magnetic field.
Registered Member #486
Joined: Sun Jul 09 2006, 01:18AM
Location: Germany/Hessen/Hanau
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Hello everybody!
When I came across this forum past year I was very astonished about the royer/marzilli circuit.... I build one myself and did some experiments. Here are some pic which tell more than 1000 words.
Registered Member #102
Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 08:15PM
Location: Raleigh, NC
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Wow guys, you might be on to something.
Does it work best with DC or AC?
If I hadn't killed every flyback in my zip code, I would have treid what I'm about to sujest.
Why not try the pulsed coil idea, but instead of a "DC" feild try an alternating feild. I guess a DC HV source would be best....
I think finding a way to force the plasma to move away form the magnet would be the direction to take here.
Have "yall" tried somthing with a much higher voltage, like 50-100kV and a considerable ditance, like 3-5? It would be very neat to see this vortex take on a tornadic shape.
Registered Member #146
Joined: Sun Feb 12 2006, 04:21AM
Location: Austin Tx
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Have "yall" tried somthing with a much higher voltage, like 50-100kV and a considerable ditance, like 3-5? It would be very neat to see this vortex take on a tornadic shape.
When i start feeling better i will try this out with my CW, which can easily do 120-160kV, which is a striking distance of maybe 8" or so. Im not sure if i have powerful enough magnets, but i have some from magnetrons and some 4" diameter donuts from speakers. Worth a shot i guess...
Registered Member #105
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I have no idea if this is even reasonable or not, but what would happen if an arc was syncronized to extinguish inside of the coil of a coilgun just as the coilgun was fired? Just an Idea...
Registered Member #119
Joined: Fri Feb 10 2006, 06:26AM
Location: USA
Posts: 114
It has been said that the spin depends on polarity of the voltage. Is this true for the magnets as well? If so and one tried something higher voltage, it might be interesting to alternate the polarity of some magnets and see what happens. Maybe it would just wave back and forth.
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