Re: Ionic propulsion/ pinwheel toroid

• To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
• Subject: Re: Ionic propulsion/ pinwheel toroid
• From: wwl-at-netcomuk.co.uk (Mike Harrison) (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)
• Date: Fri, 03 Sep 1999 07:25:13 -0600
• Approved: twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net
• Delivered-To: fixup-tesla-at-pupman-dot-com-at-fixme

On Wed, 01 Sep 1999 19:04:30 -0600, you wrote:

>Original Poster: "Nathan Howard" <nhoward-at-pdq-dot-net> 
>
>Hi all,
> 
>    I have finished my first coil and wanted to try some different things with
>it.  Since I am in physics this semester I thought it would be interesting to
>build a pinwheel for the top of my coil to experiment with ionic
propulsion.  I
>built an aluminum pinwheel similar to the one in Brent Turner's photo
gallery. 
>It pivots on an inverted nail-shaped aluminum point.  I don't Know exactly how
>much force the electrons jumping off my pinwheel have(I imagine not a lot) and
>I think the friction of my pivot point might be conteracting their force.  Has
>any one experimented with their coils in this way?  I could definately use
some
>help.  My coil is a prototype, so it is pretty small.  It has a 2in.(nominal)
>pvc secondary.. it puts out a 11in spark off a point discharge.  
> 
>Thanks for your help,
>Nathan 
> 
>
>
Check out 
www-dot-netcomuk.co.uk/~wwl/teslamotor.html

I suspect the propulsion is probably mostly by thermal/shockwave
effects rather then electrons/ions.

• Prev: RE: PCB Who?
• Next: Re: PCB Who?
• Index(es):
  • Main
  • Thread