Any 'Mad Scientists' out there?

loaches r cool

loaches r cool

Snail Terminator
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tristan.homelinux.net
Just wondering if anyone else here on AC experiments with high voltage or electromagnetic pulse projects?


Here is a picture of my larger Tesla Coil. I get get a good continous arc of electricity about 4 foot long. Sorry for the clutter in the garage at the time. I also have a short wmv movie clip of it running (a previous version of it anyway) at: http://tristan.homelinux.net/quantum2/newstuff/q2run1.wmv

And to answere your question from the original thread, TeslaHV, yeah thats a double exposure! I would want to be sitting there otherwise. If you happent to have seen Tesla's original pose like that with his monster colorado springs coil were he is sitting there reading, it is also a double exposure.

My other big field of experimenting is in electromagnetic pulsed launchers, were I launch various things like aluminum disks.

Here is my very first aluminum disk launch that unexpectedly shot into the roof of my garage. Its an old 5" hard drive disk platter. Here is a movie clip of the launcher firing (8MB): http://tristan.homelinux.net/ringlauncher/lytic06/650V_210fps.wmv

BTW I should mention 'dont do this at home', unless you know what you are doing. This stuff can be very dangerous.
 
Tristan,
I've been in the area of high-voltage electrical engineering for most of my career. My specialty now is high-power microwave transmitters. Here is a picture of my last project:

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It is a 3MW, 4.6GHz transmitter for plasma research. It was built to test induced steady-state currents in the MIT Alcator-C tokamak. It used twelve 250 kW klystrons in parallel. It was powered by a 45kV, 200A HV power supply.

As far as personal projects go, I am in the process of building (however slowly it might be progressing) a Tesla coil based on a 15 kV, 30 mA neon transformer.

I do have a couple of questions. First, is the secondary on your project connected to the primary? Where did you get your earth ground?

-- Monty --
 
loaches r cool said:
If you happent to have seen Tesla's original pose like that with his monster colorado springs coil were he is sitting there reading, it is also a double exposure.
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I usually have this picture as part of my signature:
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Here is the original picture that you are referring to:
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BTW, did you see the movie "Prestige"?
 
As I mentioned in another post, my goal as a mad scientist is to discover the universe's repository for missing left socks.
 
Tesla_HV said:
As I mentioned in another post, my goal as a mad scientist is to discover the universe's repository for missing left socks.
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LOL, mine are still on the loose...
Seriously though, you guys call these "projects"?!?!? Tweezing my eyebrows, now that's a "project" you guys are harnessing the friggin' universe... :look:
 
Very interesting project your working on! I'd love to have furthered my engineering career but its pretty well fizzled, now I am sitting at a desk dammit. lol. But atleast I am playing with power - I control a fleet of powerplants, one of, or perhaps the largest fleet in the US I cant remember for sure. Its rewarding but I still miss the ol hands on stuff. That is some immense power you got there with that project. In my personal inventory of stuff I do have a couple of high power things (for the hobbyist anyways!) a 20kV 10kVA distribution transformer - that I have run a jacobs ladder at 1A on the high side, and a couple of Maxwell Labs energy discharge caps 10kV 120uF that I have used in my disk launchers, can crushers, and soon to be quarter shrinker project.

BTW, I have a lot of info on my website, to check out more on the EMP launchers go to http://tristan.homelinux.net/ringlauncher/index.htm and for my tesla coil go to http://tristan.homelinux.net/quantum2/index.htm
I do have a couple of questions. First, is the secondary on your project connected to the primary? Where did you get your earth ground?
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No, I cant say that I have seen any classic tesla coils setup like this, but perhaps some are, or maybe its a different type like a magnifier setup? For earth ground I just drove one of the copper clad ground stakes in the ground outside the garage and ran a heavy guage wire in.
As I mentioned in another post, my goal as a mad scientist is to discover the universe's repository for missing left socks.
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Sounds like something I would see on the movie the hitchickers guide to the galaxy lol. And no, I havent seen the prestige. Something tesla related in it?

boofish2 said:
LOL, mine are still on the loose...
Seriously though, you guys call these "projects"?!?!? Tweezing my eyebrows, now that's a "project" you guys are harnessing the friggin' universe... :look:
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LOL :D
 
So, if I were interested in a DIY O3 water treatment system, you'd be the guys to talk to...
 
Hmmm, I draw out insanely complex blueprints for things I would build... though I don't have the funds to build them- and most of the technology incorporated doesn't exist yet.
 
Ummm... It's been my boyhood dream to own a railgun capable of putting a nickle jacketed lead slug the long way through a battle ship. How much would you charge me for a smaller version I could possibly mount on a motorcycle? Do you accept installments?


Failing that.. Have you ever considered trying a smaller mag pulse projectile, using the same force as your aluminum disks but with more narrow focus? I always thought by 2005 we'd have mag rifles firing a 10 grain pellet at 15,000 fps. Kinda like a military grade bb gun, with a battery and 500 rounds in the magazine.

Oh, and incredibly neat stuff, keep up the interesting work.
 
Malefic23 said:
Ummm... It's been my boyhood dream to own a railgun capable of putting a nickle jacketed lead slug the long way through a battle ship. How much would you charge me for a smaller version I could possibly mount on a motorcycle? Do you accept installments?
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I have a mini railgun that I built for my senior project sitting on the top of my bookshelf here at work. It has never been fired. The problem is getting the necessary high-voltage power supply, energy storage, and closing switch equipment to make it work. It was a bit too expensive for a poor senior at the time. I doubt however that this mini railgun would do more than just plop the projectile across the room. The whole railgun concept is little more than a pie-in-the-sky dream. The technology isn't there yet. It is much less expensive, less complex, and less bulky to use conventional chemical (i.e., powder) means to launch a projectile.
 
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