No.11 [Open thread]
Lets share pics of lifters!
This is my latest build, I'll go through how to get into making lifters in this thread and hopefully we can get some actual hovering going. The main thing to note is that the lifter itself is actually easy to build. The main challenge is getting the high voltage power to run through it to get it to work. We'll experiment and discuss some do's and don'ts in this thread.
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No.316
I've been experimenting with some high voltage supplies but they didn't produce high enough voltage
to power the lifter as of yet. 1 mm visible spark means 1000 volts. So far I've been able to get up
to 1 cm long visible spark but I need to make a voltage multiplier circuit to increase that
to get at least 1,5 cm one out of it.
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No.317
I noticed hackaday had a recent article featuring lifters so I'm linking that here;
http://hackaday.com/2016/06/08/high-voltage-please-but-dont-forget-the-current/
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No.320
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No.334
>>316
Scratch that, it needs a better driver. After reading more high voltage articles it also makes sense to insulate the power supply better, maybe with mineral oil. The voltage multiplier could still work but the output from the flyback could be much better than what I've got so far.
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No.335
>>315
The effect might work better without an ionic corona, that's one of the things I'd like to experiment with
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