Making high voltage DC from high voltage AC is not a great trick, as long as the frequency is not excessive. I've seen some high voltage diodes and caps during recent trips to Alphatronics.
-p On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 11:51 PM, William Beaty <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, 4 May 2009, Crusoe wrote: > > > On the airthreads thing, I now have several small high voltage power > > supplies I've acquired from scavenging monitors/scanners. These are > > used to normally drive small flourescent tubes used to light the > > monitor/scanner. Do you think they might work for air threads? > > Those CCFL drivers are AC, and I found that Tesla coils won't generate the > threads (presumably they're a continuous flow of charge, DC.) A > VandeGraaff machine works well, and creates "threads" from many feet > distance. > > > (((((((((((((((((( ( ( ( ( (O) ) ) ) ) ))))))))))))))))))) > William J. Beaty SCIENCE HOBBYIST website > billb at amasci com http://amasci.com > EE/programmer/sci-exhibits amateur science, hobby projects, sci fair > Seattle, WA 206-762-3818 unusual phenomena, tesla coils, weird sci > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Website: http://saturdayhouse.org/ Post: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
