A simple Franklin Bells set up using high voltage from an (old style) CRT TV screen.
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Category Archives: High Voltage
Exploding Wires
A capacitor bank dumps 3 kJ of power into an iron wire for dramatic exploding wires effects.
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Exploding watermelon
First done for Discovery Channel. It used 10 kJ from the capacitor bank to explode a thin (15 thou) iron wire inside a watermelon.
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Exploding Easter Bunny
This is the high voltage vaporisation of an Easter Bunny’s aluminium wrapper. If you are sqeamish, look away now. The Easter bunny meets 50,000 A might be a suitable title.
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Coin Shrinking Tests
Here I explore the noble art of making small change with my early coinshrinking efforts.
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Magneforming
The spanner smashes into the aluminium sheet which is being pushed away by a huge magnetic pulse.
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Ball Lightning
Ball lightning is the collective name given to a luminous ball that has been reported anecdotally often in association with natural lightning.
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Electron Beam in Free Air
An energetic electron beam can pass through a titanium foil from a vacuum into air.
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School Projects
Some of my school friendly projects are here like this simple high voltage ignition coil setup.