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DIY HACK - Cheap high voltage

Posted in Circuits, Consumer, Cool, DoItYourself!, Educational, Energy, Gadgets, Hack, Projects by max on the March 5th, 2007 at 11:32 pm

cheap high voltage

Check out this cool DIY you can make some cheap high voltage.  I’ve always wanted to do this at a low cost but here it is!

What you see here is a spent propane torch tank with a 1-inch (2.5cm) ball bearing glued to it with a 1/4-inch (6mm) bearing glued to that. I stripped the propane tank with paint stripper, but this is unnecessary as you can just scrape off the paint where the ball bearings go. The Leyden jar is just a common quart sized polyethylene bottle cut off at the top. The electrode is an ordinary empty soda can turned upside down, stuffed into a styrofoam coffee cup. The coffee cup just acts as a gasket to hold the can in place. A piece of wire hanging from the soda can tab connects to about three inches of salt water in the bottom of the bottle through a hole in the styrofoam cup. Both the propane tank and the Leyden jar sit atop a strip of aluminum foil. That’s it.

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Comment by girrrrrrr2
2007-08-26 15:47:08

wow is that the real spark or just photoshop???

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Comment by Izl Subscribed to comments via email
2007-08-28 20:20:25

how hhigh voltage

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Comment by MAster Of LiGhNiNg Subscribed to comments via email
2007-10-22 22:59:33

It is real
have you evers seen a tesla coil??

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