OK Last one for now, this is with a small glass cup sitting on top - it
seems to help balance things out a little bit. This really captures the
regular 90 degree spacing of the discharges and you even get a couple
coming right at the camera!
This is just right into air no ground points.
https://youtu.be/R1HNt1Jn-60
On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 7:59 PM, Matthew Sweeney <msweeney23@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> And here is another interesting video, I'm not even sure how I got the
> camera into this mode but it captures the discharges really nice. This is
> approx 28 inch discharges to a 3/4 inch grounded brass electrode.
>
> https://youtu.be/SWgHnTDrRr8
>
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 7:49 PM, Matthew Sweeney <msweeney23@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> Here is a second video with discharges direct to a grounded steel
>> hemisphere.
>>
>> Again, I apologize for the image quality.
>>
>> The discharge lengths here are approx 10 inches.
>>
>> FYI: This is a negatively charged VDG.
>>
>> https://youtu.be/87jKlm77YXo
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 7:28 PM, Matthew Sweeney <msweeney23@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> OK here is the first video I've been able to capture, yes it is terrible
>>> quality but does capture the discharges I'm seeing.
>>>
>>> I'm working on getting a better capture going so please bear with me.
>>>
>>> For reference the collector you can see is 14 Inches in diameter, approx
>>> 5 feet off the ground.
>>>
>>> https://youtu.be/uddGVHsVnfg
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jan 9, 2016 at 9:05 PM, Ed <evp@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I made a 'radial dirod' generator. Far less output of course but in
>>>> the dark the sparks between the terminals showed that behavior with
>>>> direction of straight part reversing from discharge to discharge. Far more
>>>> spectacular with a VDG of course.
>>>>
>>>> Ed
>>>>
>>>> On 1/9/2016 7:25 AM, Antonio Queiroz wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Em 08/01/2016 14:20, msweeney23@xxxxxxxxx escreveu:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi all, im seeing some behavior i cannot explain with my current
>>>>>> non-pumped VDG and hoping we could start a discussion.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The machine is using a 14" steel collector and 10 ft latex belt. It
>>>>>> is running beautifully without a traditional corona ring or opening radius
>>>>>> due to a non-conductive corona-ring like solution i found by accident
>>>>>> (imagine a 1 inch thick smooth rubber ring just below the collector
>>>>>> opening).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Here is what i am seeing:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The collector charges quickly and without any leakage and
>>>>>> spontaneously throws off hot loud discharges into empty air. The discharge
>>>>>> starts off as a normal straight single spark for about 2-4 inches then
>>>>>> suddenly branches off into 4 fainter thick ones reaching 10-20 inches out
>>>>>> finally terminating in a blue 'mist'.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This is typical positive positive corona, with a straight initial
>>>>> segment followed by many branches. If the sound is loud, probably they are
>>>>> terminating in something nearby, forming a "failed spark", with a "pop"
>>>>> sound, where a bright spark channel is not seen. Look at what happens in
>>>>> the dark to see more details. It's really difficult to photograph the
>>>>> phenomenon. If you look carefully at a normal spark, you see the initial
>>>>> straight segment, and possibly faint lines where it ends, one or more of
>>>>> them developing into the normal spark. If the terminal were negative you
>>>>> would see similar formations at conductors approximated to the terminal.
>>>>>
>>>>> Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz
>>>>>
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