Some observations from my electrostatic experiments
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I was trying to make some rotating disks for my attempt at a
SWISS ML Testakica free energy machine
I am trying to make and have noticed the following odd occurrences.
Before I start I like to say the weather here has been hot and dry.
Now to the details
I first glued the components as per experiment diagram one and two, shown above.
I placed a 14 inch flat aluminium surface cut from a sheet I obtained from a linotype offset printer for a cost of 65 cents a sheet.
One side has been coated with some surface they use to print the paper and left un touched, the other side is left uncoated with a bare surface showing.
These sheets are approximately two feet by three feet in size and can be cut to size requirements with an ordinary pair of scissors)
I had my Persplex supplier cut me a disk of 16inch in diameter.
Persplex was 2mm thick, (NB this a plastic glass substitute and may be know by other names in other parts of the world.)
When conducting the experiments, the outer coating paper on the persplex sheeting was removed and there was some stickiness to plastic surface remaining.
I was attempting to mount the aluminium disk so that 50 equal spaced segments can be cut out from the diameter.
I bonded the metal plate to the plastic surface with a cheap contact glue placed on the coated metal side and then I left this sandwich to dry.
A couple of days later I went to clean the exposed metal surface with a dry cotton cloth and the received an electrostatic high voltage shock.
The disk was then placed on a laminated table surface with the persplex sitting on top of table and with aluminium metal faced upwards.
After a further repeating of rubbing with the cotton cloth and when I lifted the disk combination upwards from one side and with a portion of the persplex disk surface still touching the laminated table surface I received another shock when I bought my finger close to the metal surface.
Later I noticed a cotton cloth was not needed and my hand rubbed across the metal surface was enough to activate the action again.
And the apparatus was again raised upwards when one portion of disk still in contact with the table surface, I was still subjected to an electrostatic shock on the same hand that was rubbed against the metal surface previously.
EXPERIMENT TWO
Before I noticed the following results I was going to cut the sandwich up and use it as a collectors on my attempt at the Testakica but I not so sure now.
In a further observation carried out later with an aluminium linotype sheet plate sandwiched between two 2mm Persplex sheets of approximately two foot by three feet and with the same type of contact glue covering the metal sheeting on both sides and then bonding the plastic sheets to it.
I pressed on both sides of Persplex to help spread the contact glue so that most of the surfaces were coated.
I then placed the whole assembly in a metal towing trailer to let the glue dry and then accidentally touched the metal portion and again received an electric shock.
I noticed too while the whole assembly was placed on the metal trailer, and I rubbed with my hand the top plastic sheeting on the glued sandwiched assembly, and then I raised it so that the gap between the metal foil and the metal trailer decreased a blue light was noticed along with a sharp snapping sound.
The second version of experiment seems to give better results with stronger voltage and less rubbing energy, {a couple of swipes seems to be all that is required to get it going.) between each discharge.
This reason could also be, because the surface area is also greater.
I think this device bears some similarities to Making a self high voltage charging electret also at my website, but I did not to need to make the plastic in molten state or subjected to an electrostatic field to get an electrostatic discharge.
I would like to hear from other with some explanations and other results if you have carried out similar experiments yourself.
Geoff
