Hi Kyle,
To what degree is the spark discharge "in-line" ?
Colin
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From: "Kyle Mcallister" <kyle_mcallis...@yahoo.com>
To: <vortex-l@eskimo.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 28, 2009 4:24 PM
Subject: [Vo]:Morton effect, take two
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The sparks produced
were dazzlingly bright, blue-white, and could cast
flicks of orange whatsit from the steel plate. The
power supply was a full-wave Cockroft-Walton
multiplier, powered by a 10kV 23mA oil burner ignition
transformer.
A pulse of air, it seemed, was jetted from the hole,
once per spark, and could be felt physically impacting
against my skin at almost 2 feet away. It was in a
very thin beam. It did not pass through metal or
plastic, but would make them vibrate with the impulse.
Thinking that this was just air overpressure, I moved
the spark plate apparatus a bit farther away. The idea
was, if it was overpressure from the spark shooting
out an air vortex (like a smoke doughnut... YES! LET'S
CALL THESE AIR BISCUITS!), making the air gap between
the sphere and tube bigger in area than the hole at
the end should reduce or eliminate the impulse. It
had, in my tests, no effect in reducing it. One
wonders if...
1. Something weird is going on. Preferred direction of
spark-induced air impulse? Why?
2. Moving the plate let the impulse voltage get
higher, thus counterbalancing any reduction in air
impulse.
But why didn't it blow smoke around? I tried, and it
didn't seem to. Unless the charge around the sphere
conspired somehow to hide everything. Also, I tried it
with an identical voltage multiplier, producing +100kV
on the sphere. There was still an impulse, but at much
reduced intensity and cohesion, it seems.
NEXT EXPERIMENT
Or: the experimenter realized he f'ed up in the
replication a little bit.
Morton's drawing depicts the spark not only going
through the tube and out the hole, it turns around,
then strikes the plate. The only way to do this, and
the drawing sort of shows it, is to have the lexan
plate's hole be smaller than the strike plate hole.
Conveniently, the metal plate had a knockout in it for
conduit to enter, so I punched that out. The spark now
exits, turns 90 degrees, and hits the plate. Now the
air impulse is gone. Just gone. But something else
happens. Metal plates vibrate on impact of some
"stuff", and the force which causes it will make a
plate placed 6" or so behind the first one vibrate as
well. Interesting...
BUT: it works off angle as well, as long as there's a
spark. The strike plate is not needed. Further, the
force is apparently shielded by a grounded metal cage.
This looks conventional, but maybe I have missed
something. Ideas? It does, sometimes, but not always,
have a minor effect on plastic (a grocery bag made of
PE). This effect works independently of polarity.
Lastly, I did attempt the following: both multipliers
were used. Grounds were common, but the sphere was
-100kV, and the target was +100kV. The sparks could be
extended out to almost 8", were painful to listen to,
and caused a bottle of fluorescein dye to make some
great mood lighting. The effect persisted, but was
still shieldable.
Notes:
The identical twin multipliers, except for polarity,
were named Happy Happy, and Joy Joy.
Was listening to "Frankenstein" while doing the last
experiment.
--Kyle
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