Re: [Vo]: Re: Fred's Van de Graaff Antics

2007-02-15 Thread Michel Jullian
- Original Message - From: John Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 5:06 AM Subject: Re: [Vo]: Re: Fred's Van de Graaff Antics On 2/5/07, Michel Jullian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It won't rise but some of the ions will go round or even

Re: [Vo]: Re: Fred's Van de Graaff Antics

2007-02-15 Thread John Berry
On 2/15/07, Michel Jullian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: John Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 5:06 AM Subject: Re: [Vo]: Re: Fred's Van de Graaff Antics On 2/5/07, Michel Jullian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: [Vo]: Re: Fred's Van de Graaff Antics

2007-02-15 Thread Michel Jullian
- Original Message - From: John Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 9:59 AM Subject: Re: [Vo]: Re: Fred's Van de Graaff Antics You can calculate i*d/2E-4 (i current in A, d gap in m) for yourself can't you? Well that's the ion wind's

Re: [Vo]: Re: Fred's Van de Graaff Antics

2007-02-15 Thread John Berry
On 2/15/07, Michel Jullian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, not kW levels, in fact you can get what I described from a 12w flyback that powers a plasma globe. How cute, is this what you tried to fly your lifter with? Of course not.

Re: [Vo]: Re: Fred's Van de Graaff Antics

2007-02-15 Thread Frederick Sparber
with the negative charge pumped from the inner sphere to the surrounding outer sphere by the VDG. But don't bet on it. :-) Fred [Original Message] From: Michel Jullian [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Date: 2/15/2007 3:34:23 AM Subject: Re: [Vo]: Re: Fred's Van de Graaff Antics

Re: [Vo]: Re: Fred's Van de Graaff Antics

2007-02-15 Thread Michel Jullian
define conductors and total charge and which would work out charge distribution for you, this may exist. Michel - Original Message - From: Frederick Sparber [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 12:44 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]: Re: Fred's Van de Graaff Antics

Re: [Vo]: Re: Fred's Van de Graaff Antics

2007-02-15 Thread John Berry
]: Re: Fred's Van de Graaff Antics - Original Message - From: John Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 9:59 AM Subject: Re: [Vo]: Re: Fred's Van de Graaff Antics You can calculate i*d/2E-4 (i current in A, d gap in m) for yourself

Re: [Vo]: Re: Fred's Van de Graaff Antics

2007-02-15 Thread Frederick Sparber
Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 12:44 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]: Re: Fred's Van de Graaff Antics If you have the patience, this CalTech Electric Field Applet can be used to set up a simulation of the charged apparatus, the ion charges and the putative excess negative charge of the earth

Re: [Vo]: Re: Fred's Van de Graaff Antics

2007-02-14 Thread John Berry
No, it's just a pin point vaporization and carbonization of skin, the soldering iron will burn and either leave skin hard, or if hotter it will make skin slough off so it's quite different. Obviously if the ma's are too high it is worse and if rectified to DC and maybe a cap to rectify easily

Re: [Vo]: Re: Fred's Van de Graaff Antics

2007-02-04 Thread Harry Veeder
Michel Jullian wrote: - Original Message - From: Harry Veeder [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2007 2:01 AM Subject: Re: [Vo]: Re: Fred's Van de Graaff Antics Michel Jullian wrote: Sure Harry it's ion wind. Naudin's comment, athough

Re: [Vo]: Re: Fred's Van de Graaff Antics

2007-02-04 Thread Harry Veeder
Michel Jullian wrote: It won't rise but some of the ions will go round or even through the paper so you'll get some remaining thrust, it's very hard to insulate high voltages. Well one could also do what Stephen A. Lawrence suggested earlier. Put the lifter inside a box and place the box on a

Re: [Vo]: Re: Fred's Van de Graaff Antics

2007-02-04 Thread thomas malloy
Someone posted the idea of powering their lifter with batteries. I'd like to suggest a MHD generator. It would seem to me that ti would be lighter, I don't know about the price though. This is a device several guys on this list could build and test. Harry ---

Re: [Vo]: Re: Fred's Van de Graaff Antics

2007-02-03 Thread Michel Jullian
- Original Message - From: Harry Veeder [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2007 4:13 AM Subject: Re: [Vo]: Re: Fred's Van de Graaff Antics Michel Jullian wrote: In spite of, or rather thanks to the ion fan out feature, this design has beaten as I had

Re: [Vo]: Re: Fred's Van de Graaff Antics

2007-02-03 Thread Michel Jullian
-polymer batteries :))) Michel - Original Message - From: Michel Jullian [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2007 3:07 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]: Re: Fred's Van de Graaff Antics Sure Harry it's ion wind. Naudin's comment, athough somewhat misleading

Re: [Vo]: Re: Fred's Van de Graaff Antics

2007-02-03 Thread Harry Veeder
: Harry Veeder [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2007 4:13 AM Subject: Re: [Vo]: Re: Fred's Van de Graaff Antics Michel Jullian wrote: In spite of, or rather thanks to the ion fan out feature, this design has beaten as I had expected all other lifter

[Vo]: Re: Fred's Van de Graaff Antics

2007-02-02 Thread Michel Jullian
- Original Message - From: Michael Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 11:54 PM Subject: [Vo]: Fred's Van de Graaff Antics ... Therefore, an object with a strong negative charge will charge the earth locally positive by induction and your

Re: [Vo]: Re: Fred's Van de Graaff Antics

2007-02-02 Thread Harry Veeder
Michel Jullian wrote: In spite of, or rather thanks to the ion fan out feature, this design has beaten as I had expected all other lifter designs in terms of thrust per unit area, by a comfortable margin (3 times that of a standard lifter e.g. Naudin's, 1.5 times that of a flat grid De

Re: [Vo]: Re: Fred's Van de Graaff Antics

2007-02-02 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Harry Veeder wrote: Michel Jullian wrote: In spite of, or rather thanks to the ion fan out feature, this design has beaten as I had expected all other lifter designs in terms of thrust per unit area, by a comfortable margin (3 times that of a standard lifter e.g. Naudin's, 1.5 times that of