Any 'Mad Scientists' out there?
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Squawkbert said:
Generating ozone is not a problem. Introducing it into the water and keeping it to non-toxic levels is not my area of expertise. Is there an expert in Marine Ichthyology in the house?.....hello?.....hello?.....is this mike on?.....pfffft.
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Hey, wait.....you were being facetious weren't you? :clap: :thm: :dance:
Tesla_HV said:
Not entirely - it would work just like a UV sterilizer, but lots better. Hot tub companies have been using them for years, but their application is for ~350g and up... we need 20-250g units. The O3 is generated in a tube outside the main tank, water goes back into tank, O3 dissipates as fast as the water re-enters the tank (but any bugs are now dead).
For water decontamination, you have (in approximate order of effectiveness):
high heat/pressure treatment
-O3 treatment
-toxic additives (azides, bromine, chlorine etc.)
-membrane filtration (<0.45µ for bacteria, <.22µ for everything else)
-UV sterilization (not worth crap unless a quartz sleeve is used and water flow is low enough or UV wattage is high enough)
-"other" filtration methods (the stuff we use in fishtanks)
up front costs are going to be a little higher for O3 than w/ other fish-friendly methods, but it would be more reliable and cheaper in the long run (I'm thinking it would be...).
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So, there are commercially available O3 generators out there? How are these different from the one that you want to develop?
Aquarium Ozone Generation
Aquarium Ozone Generation
Wow - I didn't know that this was already being done (except for large, MTS commercial type installations).
Is nice to know - I think the stuff in the article you linked is pretty much exactly what I had in mind...
Is nice to know - I think the stuff in the article you linked is pretty much exactly what I had in mind...
Malefic23 said:
Ahh the railgun, yes this was one of my dreams too. I started building one in college as well. Infact it was to be my senior project as well but I couldnt get it approved... 'too dangerous, and too costly' they said, even though when in the submission I stated that I had almost all the expenisve parts already, capacitors, HV supply, etc. The prototype was poorly designed and my projectile (a penny) shot off the thing right away instead of traveling down the rails. I decided to make a good design, but never finished it, and just recently took the copper rails and cut them down to use for buss bars in my more useful induction launcher:
Malefic23 said:
For an induction launcher the projectile must be non magnetic like aluminum. These kind of launcher work on the principle that the pulse will repel the magnetic field in the aluminum ring due to induced eddy currents. There are other EMP pulse launcher that use ferromagnetic projectiles and they work by attracting them into the coil, then shutting off to allow the projectile to continue away. Among my piers this style of 'reluctance coilgun' is common but has many disadvantages over the induction launcher. And I am not sure what you mean by a 'more narrow focus'. The style of launcher I built uses a flat spiral coil matched to a aluminum disk. I havent had a chance to test many coils yet and optimize it, and I have some special magnet wire I have high hopes for.
With my single stage launcher I am getting around 6%-7% effecient (converting stored electrical enegry to kinetic energy of the projectile) which is actually pretty good seing how its just thrown together and few caluclations were done or tunning. The best hobbyist launchers are only hitting 10%=15% effeciency. This is the reason magnetic guns have not caught on. Chemical (gunpowder) is so much more effecient, but not nearly as cool! lol
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Tesla HV, have you ever heard or visited http://4hv.org/ its a forum for HV hobbyist. My user name there is 'Quantum Singularity'. I also used to be on the Tesla Mailing List at pupman.com. In all I have built 3 tesla coils for myself, the first one being changed and rebuilt like 4 times with different primary, secondary, etc. etc. I also helped a high schooler build a really nice coil (show quality) for his science far and subsequently got Tesla coils banned from the school since it was 'too dangerous for high-schoolers'. Oh well. The opression of Tesla continues. Through email I have also helped other college students build an EMP can crusher and another one to build a ringlauncher.
I also have a TON of unfinished projects, but getting married and now having a 9mo old son have really put a damper on my hobbies lol.
For those who havent visited my site here are some pics I'll load up here:
First Tesla Coil
Miniature Twin Coil
EMP Can Crusher display I made for our IEEE club.
An aluminum disk (5" hard drive platter) showing the tremendous magnetic forces in effect upon launching with my EMP disk launcher. Typically they will warp in a bowl shape but this one unevenly distorted partly due to the coil being blown apart upon launch.
I also have a TON of unfinished projects, but getting married and now having a 9mo old son have really put a damper on my hobbies lol.
For those who havent visited my site here are some pics I'll load up here:
First Tesla Coil 
Miniature Twin Coil
EMP Can Crusher display I made for our IEEE club.
An aluminum disk (5" hard drive platter) showing the tremendous magnetic forces in effect upon launching with my EMP disk launcher. Typically they will warp in a bowl shape but this one unevenly distorted partly due to the coil being blown apart upon launch.