Re: electrostatic motor
GEOFF EGEL ( egel@main.murray.net.au )
Sat, 11 Apr 1998 21:52:14 +0900
At 07:16 PM 4/10/98 -0400, you wrote:
>I was just looking at an old picture of a Dirod type electrostatic
>generator I made about 20 years ago. It made me remember about a
>peculiar behaviour of the machine. It was constructed so that it was
>driven by a belt from a motor, but it could be turned by hand with the
>belt off and still work. Well it could be spun this way by hand and sort
>of 'wound up' to a point where the voltage was at maximum before
>breakdown. If the axle was let go at that point, it would spin on its
>own in the reverse direction untill the static charge was used up, often
>20 or 30 revolutions or so. I could have theoretically connected a high
>voltage DC supply to it and it would have run indefinitely. Has anyone
>seen a practical application of this? Do the plastic disc e-s machines
>behave the same way?
>
>I don't have that machine anymore, the fellow I loaned it to died and I
>didn't want to ask for it back. It would be simple to build another
>though.
>
>-Gerald O'
>
>Hi Gerald
would be happy to recieve some construction detials of this device have
heard abbout ther name but never really could find out how to construct one
If information and diagrams would help me a bit.
Thanks in Advance Geoff
Geoff
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