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I made a 'radial dirod' generator. Far less output of course but in the
dark the sparks between the terminals showed that behavior with
direction of straight part reversing from discharge to discharge. Far
more spectacular with a VDG of course.
Ed
On 1/9/2016 7:25 AM, Antonio Queiroz wrote:
Em 08/01/2016 14:20, msweeney23@xxxxxxxxx escreveu:
Hi all, im seeing some behavior i cannot explain with my current
non-pumped VDG and hoping we could start a discussion.
The machine is using a 14" steel collector and 10 ft latex belt. It
is running beautifully without a traditional corona ring or opening
radius due to a non-conductive corona-ring like solution i found by
accident (imagine a 1 inch thick smooth rubber ring just below the
collector opening).
Here is what i am seeing:
The collector charges quickly and without any leakage and
spontaneously throws off hot loud discharges into empty air. The
discharge starts off as a normal straight single spark for about 2-4
inches then suddenly branches off into 4 fainter thick ones reaching
10-20 inches out finally terminating in a blue 'mist'.
This is typical positive positive corona, with a straight initial
segment followed by many branches. If the sound is loud, probably they
are terminating in something nearby, forming a "failed spark", with a
"pop" sound, where a bright spark channel is not seen. Look at what
happens in the dark to see more details. It's really difficult to
photograph the phenomenon. If you look carefully at a normal spark,
you see the initial straight segment, and possibly faint lines where
it ends, one or more of them developing into the normal spark. If the
terminal were negative you would see similar formations at conductors
approximated to the terminal.