HiDesertHal
Senior Member
These are the High-Voltage "Lightning Machines" I built:
The large 30" sphere was fabricated in 2 hemispheres by a metal-spinning company.
Using a 1/4 HP motor driving an endless dielectric belt, the static charges were deposited inside the Sphere until they could no longer be contained, then they discharged in an arc which was over 4 feet long, representing a potential of over one million volts.
The machine could not be used in the house, as the discharges penetrated the ceiling of the Game Room and attached to the house wiring, causing a surge which tripped circuit breakers everywhere!
The Sphere is now a Garden Ornament!
The other device is a Bonelli Machine, an electrostatic device using hand-cranked, counter-rotating 36" discs to develop a charge between them, which was conducted to the Leyden Jar Capacitors, which discharged through the copper ball electrodes, yielding over 300,000 volts.
That's all.....
HiDesertHal (Double-posting of Bonelli Machine...sorry!)
The large 30" sphere was fabricated in 2 hemispheres by a metal-spinning company.
Using a 1/4 HP motor driving an endless dielectric belt, the static charges were deposited inside the Sphere until they could no longer be contained, then they discharged in an arc which was over 4 feet long, representing a potential of over one million volts.
The machine could not be used in the house, as the discharges penetrated the ceiling of the Game Room and attached to the house wiring, causing a surge which tripped circuit breakers everywhere!
The Sphere is now a Garden Ornament!
The other device is a Bonelli Machine, an electrostatic device using hand-cranked, counter-rotating 36" discs to develop a charge between them, which was conducted to the Leyden Jar Capacitors, which discharged through the copper ball electrodes, yielding over 300,000 volts.
That's all.....
HiDesertHal (Double-posting of Bonelli Machine...sorry!)
