Another interesting demo of the water spark circuit
Here’s a good demo of gotolucs circuit posted by smw1998a.
Here’s a good demo of gotolucs circuit posted by smw1998a.
Aaron and Peter at energetic forum have been developing an alternate design based on the gotoluc circuit. The main difference if I understand correctly is that Aaron figured out how to pull unused electrons from the arc to greatly increase the amount of voltage that is generated by the arc. He has run it upto 1000+ Volts before his circuit was fried. Wow!!!
Here’s his description:
Increase the spark effect with additional very low current photo flash capacitor.
To initiate the effect, a regular capacitor discharge is needed that bounces into a hv diode off the secondary input.
A CDI system that is common to any performance car enthusiast can be simply added onto a regular ignition system and is already suited for any rpm needed and for any amount of cylinders. That part of the system is already off the shelf. And maybe an MSD (multiple spark discharge) might work better if the booster caps across plug can keep up.
Then, just need secondary source across plug with diodes. Peter and I went up to 1000+ volts on the secondary source powerd by microwave oven power supply…frying over 20kv of of diodes in series (a couple hv microwave diodes in series). But the spark was tremendous.
The spark is enhanced by a high current pulse, but what is wanted is high joules impulse on the secondary. Joules climb by square of voltage in cap so that means it is easier to get a high joule punch from simply increasing voltage even with super low capacitance because that discharged in a small blip in time is very time compressed easily giving megawatt impulses from a tiny cap bank.
If it turns out that S1R’s method of using 120v at whatever amp pulses as secondary are easier and more effective I’d definitely go with it. But until we know exactly his own particular circuit, so far the evidence seems to show that the effect grows with super low amps but high voltage on the secondary booster input.
My spark amplifier vid was only one cap charged to wall voltage of about 160 peak..actually I measured up to 200v.
With the test with Peter…a little over 1000v and we were hardly even had the variac turned up to the primary on the microwave supply. I had about 8 X 200v 350uf caps wired in series. So that is 1600v cap at 44uf. And flash caps too so better discharge than high volt microwave cap or anything else.
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