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Diploid
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Indoor Lightning! YIKES!
#5414207 - 03/17/06 06:34 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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I've been meaning to build an electrostatic lifter, but haven't had time to bother with rolling garbage bag capacitors and such. When I saw this thing on Ebay last week, I had to have one: 100 kilovolts! That's enough to ionize air at 10 centimeters!


Check out the wicked video. The EM pulse from this thing was strong enough to reset my computer monitors over and over every time I turned it on! It filled the room with ozone and scared the shit outta my cat too.
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Edited by Diploid (03/17/06 07:07 PM)
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whatever123
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Re: Indoor Lightning! YIKES! [Re: Diploid]
#5414246 - 03/17/06 06:47 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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wait....the video fucked up your comp?
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Diploid
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Re: Indoor Lightning! YIKES! [Re: whatever123]
#5414274 - 03/17/06 06:55 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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No, the electromagnetic pulse from each spark clobbered the monitor's electronics hard enough to make it reset itself over and over until I turned off the Tesla generator.
Oddly, it didn't seem to bother my camera at all. I guess it's better shielded.
-------------------- Republican Values: 1) You can't get married to your spouse who is the same sex as you. 2) You can't have an abortion no matter how much you don't want a child. 3) You can't have a certain plant in your possession or you'll get locked up with a rapist and a murderer. 4) We need a smaller, less-intrusive government.
Edited by Diploid (03/17/06 07:01 PM)
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Re: Indoor Lightning! YIKES! [Re: Diploid]
#5414299 - 03/17/06 07:06 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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i get no video with the link, it just sends me back to this page?
i wanna see
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Re: Indoor Lightning! YIKES! [Re: Diploid]
#5414300 - 03/17/06 07:07 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Oh, you mean you used it, haha. I thought you meant the video fucked up your comp, lol.
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Re: Indoor Lightning! YIKES! [Re: supra]
#5414302 - 03/17/06 07:08 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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i get no video
Oops, my bad.
It's fixed now.
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Re: Indoor Lightning! YIKES! [Re: Diploid]
#5414352 - 03/17/06 07:49 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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lol... Telsa coil.... no wonder... hahahah...
Didnt know you could use one as an ionizer...
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Re: Indoor Lightning! YIKES! [Re: Diploid]
#5414665 - 03/17/06 10:23 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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I want your keyboard.
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Re: Indoor Lightning! YIKES! [Re: Diploid]
#5415621 - 03/18/06 11:24 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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I want one
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Edited by trendal (03/18/06 11:27 AM)
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Re: Indoor Lightning! YIKES! [Re: trendal]
#5415734 - 03/18/06 12:18 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
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Quote:
trendal said:

I want one
Look up a schematic and DIY it. Radio shack still sells most if not all of the parts you'd need. Enclose it in a case from a radio kit and wire up the components on a peice of perfboard.
The hard part is making sure it's well grounded and safe to use.
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