Re: lifter power supply (fwd)

[Steven Roys <sroys@xxxxxxxx>]

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Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 00:00:45 -0600
From: Terrell W. Fritz <terrellf@xxxxxxxxx>
To: High Voltage list <hvlist@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: lifter power supply (fwd)

Hi,

At 03:11 PM 7/28/2003 -0600, you wrote:
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>Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 19:38:59 -0600
>From: CwhY <satori@xxxxxxxxx>
>To: High Voltage list <hvlist@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re: lifter power supply
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>One one of the lifter pages I found through links posted here, I noticed a
>mention of reversing the power supply polarity and still acheiving lift. In
>light of the mentions here about polarity issues, I thought it might be
>worth mentioning.

Yeah Richard says it should still work too.  I turned the voltage up "too
high" on my first lifter and burnt it up :-p  But I want to make a new one!!

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>My question, though, is this: are these for real? I'm guessing there must be
>something to it, if it attracted Terry's interest. But until I saw them
>discussed here, I had long relegated the idea to "pseudo-scientific hogwash"
>status. I was first exposed to the idea in
>free-energy/antigravity/Tesla-Venusian-mind-ray type circles, and I don't
>recall seeing any more "reputable" information on them.

They are very "real" ;-))

http://jnaudin.free.fr/lifters/main.htm

Check out this page where they are lifting a living mouse with one!!!!!!!!!

http://jlnlabs.imars.com/lifters/orville/index.htm

They have "movies" and all!!!!

Orville's Lifter-Craft "Maximus" specifications :
Orville, the mouse weight : 24g
Lifter "Maximus" weight ( on 01-08-03 ) : 140 g
Orville's Lifter pod weight : 16 g
Total weight of the Lifter-craft with Orville is : 180 g
Power supply voltage : 35KV DC
Current : about 10mA
HV Power : about 350 Watts

"I" would have put Orville in a Faraday cage incase all that high voltage
got all screwed up in a tangle...  Would not have wanted Orville to end up
as the first electofataility...

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>However, given even _some_ hope of the legitimacy of these devices, I am
>quite likely to do some experiments since they appear easy enough to
>construct and power using (mostly) stuff I already have.

They are "real" ;-))  They work off that same force that drive
electrostatic pinwheels.  "Pulsing" the power and using super thin wires
seems to really "optimize" the functioning of the darn things...

I think the "Holy Grail" would be to have a radio controlled one that
contained it's own internal HV supply and thus could fly around without
"strings"...  I imagine varying the voltages on the sides could "steer" it
around...

Super cool stuff!!, but the technology is still very crude...  Needs a
bunch of super light weight HV switching power supplies....

BTW - Glad to see the new list is going so well!! ;-))))))

Cheers,

	Terry

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