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void109
Thu Sept 02 2010, 04:23PM Print
void109 Registered Member #3016 Joined: Tue Jul 20 2010, 01:55AM
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Just thought you might get a kick out of this.

I balanced some 10 awg copper wire on a breakout point of my coil, and bent the ends of the wire in opposite direction. The plasma discharge from the ends of the wire affect thrust and it spins :)

I'll upload another video I took later, showing where some massive inter-wind arcing blew out the side of my secondary during the same session :( For some reason, when I place the copper wire on the breakout point, my amp draw dramatically increases and there is more potential (apparently) across the secondary (was shorting all over the place). After I finished crying, I removed the copper prop and ran it again as a last goodbye - no secondary arcing even though it was pretty carbonized. Put the prop back, more arcing again.

Anyway, here's the video!

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Mads Barnkob
Thu Sept 02 2010, 05:04PM
Mads Barnkob Registered Member #1403 Joined: Tue Mar 18 2008, 06:05PM
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This is also known as a corona spinner, ion spinner, ion motor etc.. :)
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Avi
Fri Sept 03 2010, 04:39AM
Avi Registered Member #580 Joined: Mon Mar 12 2007, 03:17PM
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I believe most of the force is due to like charge repulsion (the plasma and the wire)
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lpfthings
Fri Sept 03 2010, 06:22AM
lpfthings Registered Member #1361 Joined: Thu Feb 28 2008, 10:57AM
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Yeah, it creates a ion wind off the tips of the wire, which pushes it along.
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Xplorer
Sat Sept 04 2010, 04:06AM
Xplorer Registered Member #2416 Joined: Sun Oct 04 2009, 04:23AM
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I've done this before. But a TC is way over kill. I've gotten some pretty high speeds with a simple 10kv low current flyback circuit.

-Tony
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