Re: Kirlian Machine (fwd)

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Original poster: Steven Roys <sroys@xxxxxxxxxx>



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Subject: Re: Kirlian Machine (fwd)

 
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Original  poster: Steven Roys <sroys@xxxxxxxxxx>



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Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 01:28:54 -0500
From:  Billy Baty <bbbaty@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: High Voltage list  <hvlist@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Kirlian Machine

Hello  everyone,

I would like to build a Kirlin machine. There are simple ones  that flash 
just long enough to make a quick photo on photographic paper  and there 
are more complex ones that produce a current for an extended or  
continuous length of time. I would like to build a complex one.

The  only information I currently have is that the Kirlian machine 
produces  high voltage with extremely low amperage. I am only guessing 
that the  voltage is somewhere in the 20k range but have no idea about 
the amps.  Stun guns' voltages are around 20k to 120k and deliver quite a 
shock. I am  guessing that Kirlian machines will have similar voltages 
with quite a bit  less amperage.

Someone mentioned that someone else had made a nice  Kirlian machine out 
of an automobile ignition coil.

Supposedly the  high voltage, low amperage current is conducted through a 
metal plate  where anything touching the plate will glow with the Kirlian 
light energy.  There may be a plastic covering on the plate. This light 
energy is  produced in nature, is a form of lightening and is called St 
Elmo's Fire,  albeit rare.

How about a 12volt car battery, connected to an ignition  coil, but then 
what?

Anyone know how I could build such a  machine?

All the best,

Billy  Baty




Hi Billy,
 
Two possibly interesting references:
 
"Photographing the Nonmaterial World" by Kendall Johnson 1975, Hawthorn  
Books Inc.
Article "Kirlian Photography" in "Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience" by Dr.  
W.F.Williams, 2000, Facts on File Inc.
 
Edmond Scientific (scientificsonline.com) sold these systems in the  mid-70s 
along with biofeedback machines and power pyramids, but I think they  stopped 
it after they got bad press for promoting New Age quackery as  science. 
 
IIRC, Kendall Johnson is a "True Believer" in Aether, Auras, etc. but  I 
think his book may have the circuit information you want.
 
Matt D.