Re: Towards the autonomous lifter - electrostatic voltage generators.

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Original poster: "Peter Terren" <pterren@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

I have a lifter on display in a science museum that uses 5W to lift 
4g.  Now that it has been running for months now, I am finding new problems 
such as HV creep and burning down the uprights and wire fracturing due to 
the agitation of the wires despite damping precautions.  I am designing an 
updated model with plastic supports and some very fine Litz wire from Bert 
Poole.  I have my ideas for a very new design for an ion engine.  I just 
need to get a couple of hundred other projects out of the way.
http://tesladownunder.com/Lifters.htm

Peter

> Original poster: "Mercurus2000" <mercurus2000@xxxxxxx>
>
> I've gotten a small tranangular lifter to levitate using about 4 watts of
> power.
> Adam
>
> > Original poster: Ed Phillips <evp@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Not sure about it, but I think that ES motors have a very poor
> > power/weight ratio, and are probably quite inefficient.  Antonio would
> > know about that.  Has anyone calculated the power required to operate a
> > lifter of useful size?
> > Ed