Just a tip: you can use 1 jar with flat alu foil around it and a cylinder with same foil on it as electrodes (more area = more capacity) Nutella jar gave me like a 15pF (p is for pico, which is 10^-9). Power supplies have capacitors near 1mF (10^-3) (I studied electronics)
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but it can alsobe used to drive an induction heater, for this video the the main coil from the zvs driver is turned around a CRT TV flyback transformer that is responsible for generating high voltage
@@anunaccountablescience6464 I meant at the beginning, your opening statement made it sound like you were saying that what you were showing in the clip was the ZVS driver! 😂👍
Don't give up dude. This was a great experiment! I believe the two main issues were the different resistor values and, as others have pointed out, the differences in the spark gaps. You are basically limited by the smallest spark-gap, so make sure to space all of them equally. Maybe pre-assemble the spark-gaps with a spacer in-between, then glue them to something, then remove the spacer? For the resistors, similar sized Marx Generators seem to have used resistors in the 1МΩ-Range with a 2W rating at least. Maybe you can get a bundle of those?
As previously mentioned spark gap distance is critical, I would say just buy spark gaps but they are restricted items that need licenses. I used cheap micrometers and set gaps using gauge blocks, that is a bit OTT tbh. Good luck
check your model for charging, i could be wrong but the capacitors further down might charge slower because of the resistors/ this might change the voltage at different pars of the circuit meaning the spark gaps need to be diggerent at different points
instead of trying to copy him electroBOOM (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dje7uhyW23o.htmlsi=GCj-pOgMgaky1_v3), you could learn a thing or two and make useful content. maybe create a usecase?
You need to make it with equal spacing all the way up. You have different distances in spark gaps. So one will fire before the others. Only when you have an overload do you see 2 of them fire. Get a builder board and clean up any sharp edges they cause loss. You resistors and capacitors need to be the same. However you might try making one end low and the other high but never make the middle different. You got it to fire that's a good start. You are doing good. I look forward to your video on this. Thank you.
@achhcityshorts4646 polarized capacitor has negative and positive terminals, but I think he used 1000v non polarized capacitor that multiplies the voltage "non-polarized ceramic capacitor" most probably
I hate this stupid clickbait, everone does that. I can see from the video and the thumbnail that it's maybe 10.000-20.000V at best. 100kV would jump 10cm.
The spark from the thumbnail is discharge from a capacitor which is way less that the charging voltage and u may know that 3kV can jump to 1mm, mine can initially jump to 3cm which gives till 100kV
@@NatiG1 I skipped through the video and saw you using it. The common breakdown voltage of air is 1-3mm per kV. Not 3kV per mm. Also I have extensive experience playing with flyback transformers which output around 20kV and voltage multipliers going up to 60kV (which I also measured through a resiter network) I also build a 50.000V transformer wich creates arcs up to 5cm. So if your assumptions where true I would have a 150Kv transformer there. Which can't be true because I calculated the isolation to be far lower. (Tho this was a high frequency transformer which can have different characteristics) Edit: I watched the whole video now
Also, choose your salts wisely. NaCl will result in Chlorine gas in the mix. NaHCO3 (Sodium Bicarbonate) will result in CO2 in the gas mix, making the gas less combustible, and might not ignite. You can use NaOH (Sodium Hydroxide) or KOH (Potassium Hydroxide), which are two types of lye. These salts will result in no additional gasses to the mix... just pure H2H2O2 gas mixture. NaOH is the main ingredient in some common Alkaline drain cleaners. Be careful if you make a good pure mixture, please (like not in your hand).
