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Re: static motor

Original poster: "Steven Steele" <sbsteele@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

So, do you think it would be possible to run a rotary spark gap off an
electro static motor?
Thats why I brought it up.

Steven Steele
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Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 2:06 PM
Subject: Re: static motor


> Original poster: William Beaty <billb@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> On Wed, 20 Jul 2005, Tesla list wrote:
>
>  > Original poster: "Steven Steele" <sbsteele@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>  >
>  > Here is a link to a website that shows you how to build an
electrostatic
>  > motor:
>  > http://f3wm.free.fr/sciences/es_motor.html
>
>
> That's a version of my popular science-fair website which came from my
> 1988 science museum exhibit.   It's been on the web since 1995.
>
>     "Soda bottle electrostatic motor"
>      http://amasci.com/emotor/emot1.html
>
>      History of that invention
>      http://amasci.com/emotor/mestat.html
>
>      Search:   "electrostatic motor" +bottle
>
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=%22electrostatic+motor%22+%2Bbottle
>
>
> This pop-bottle motor is an ultra-simple device for kids which I designed
> in response to Oleg Jefimenko's old article on e-motors he made from
> machined plexiglas. http://f3wm.free.fr/sciences/jefimenko.html
>
>
>    Electrostatic Motors
>    http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0917406028/
>
>
> For anyone wishing to build high-power electrostatic motors, I recommend
> using a disk geometery rather than cylinders.  Make a thin disk-type
> electrostatic motor, then stack it on a shaft with many identical copies.
> (This is much harder to do if you use cylinders!)  Also, motors based on
> coronas and plastic, rather than on foil electrodes with brushes, are both
> simpler and more efficient.  It does take higher voltages to start corona
> motors.
>
>
>