On Thu, 25 Jul 2019 at 00:16, <geoelectron...@rallstech.net> wrote: > G8WRB DE K0FF > Sounds like a fun project. > > George
Unfortunately I couldn’t get anyone else at the radio club interested in attempting this. I thought it might make a fun project. A year or two ago I managed to get a few to build an electroscope. I am unsure if mine was an electroscope or electrometer, as it could determine the polarity of the charge. About 600 V was put was put across two capacitor plates. The direction of travel would determine if the charge was positive or negative. One thing I did notice when building the electrometer was that it was very easy to get the foil to touch one capacitor plate, be repelled the touch the other plate. It was essentially doing what the Oxford Bell did, but since I only had a piece of aluminium foil, it would have soon broke had I left it running. The foil was short it run very fast - to fast to count the frequency. Dave. Dave. -- Dr. David Kirkby, _______________________________________________ volt-nuts mailing list -- volt-nuts@lists.febo.com To unsubscribe, go to http://lists.febo.com/mailman/listinfo/volt-nuts_lists.febo.com and follow the instructions there.
