The plasma globe has AC output, so it won't charge the capacitor up to a DC voltage [edit] I like the video though! Makes me want to make a huge high voltage capacitor of my own!Just need to find a way to charge it...
I didn't have a pvc tube, but I do have a makeshift plasma cutter that I made from a plasma lighter. It's really weak but I thought it would be enough to charge the Leyden jar. Then I saw the second half of the video and my hopes and dreams were shattered :P
When I was in highschool my science/physics teacher had a hand crank Van Dr Graaff generator. So I went online and stumbled upon the Leyden jar being used to store power from the Van Dr Graff. So I made a dry version from a 5 gallon bucket, aluminum foil on the inside and outside walls and a small chain attached to the lid that ran to the foil coated bottom. I brought it into class to find out that even after charging it, I thought I discharged it, and like 5 hours later after school was released, I went to the classroom to bring the Leyden bucket home. I accidentally touched both ends of the buckets contacts and found out that it was capable of holding a charge powerful enough to make me see a flash of white over 5 hours after initially being charged.
Apparently classic Tupperware tubs work really well for Leyden jars. PET plastic in drink bottles is slightly porous, so unless it has been kept dry for days, it conducts a very small charge through the walls. The soft plastic in classic Tupperware has similar characteristics to the insulation on electrical wires and is not porous. Also, most of the foil with insulation tape reduces charge loss, and any area you intend on touching needs to be in the middle, not on an edge, as sharp edges release static charge. (That's why lightning rods are pointy.) Another tip, use a piece of copper wire instead of a galvanised iron nail. Copper conducts electricity better, and loop to top end over so there are no sharp ends. Swap the paper for a piece of nylon, polyester, or silk, and if you don't squeal from the shock after following those tips, there's something wrong with you.
Great video! Im completely stunned by the quality. Completely shocking to see what you what make with such simple materials. Through the whole video my eyelids were completely static. I was like "Watt? This is amazing". It must take a real bright spark to come up with these ideas.
A Electrician Arrive Home At 3 AM. His Wife Asks Him, "[Wire] You [Insulate] ?" He Replies, "[Watt]'s It To You?" "I'm [Ohm] Aren't I?" His Wife added, "Well That's Quite [Shocking]! Isn't it? " ('The Electrician Tries desperately To Think Of Another Electricity Pun . . . His Head [Hertz]'
I built Leyden Jars from empty fish food containers when I was 10, though I preferred a dry jar with foil on both the inside and outside of the jar to these wet ones, simply because they were so much lighter so it made it easier to transport my collection of 20+ jars. I have a few tips here: 1. always ground the outer foil when charging it, it makes it easier to build up a charge 2. when discharging larger Leyden Jars ALWAYS USE A TOOL, myself I used a bent paper clip to complete the circuit 3. Rather than using a frictional device like PVC pipe to charge the Leyden Jar, might I suggest building an electrophorus, for an easy start, or going with something like a Wimshurst machine if you want to go full tilt (as I did), if you want to go down the path of awesome whimsy you could build a version of Lord Kelvin's Thunderstorm, that might be right up your alley.
A friend of mine tried grinding gunpowder with a mortar and pestle in his sophomore science class. It removed several windows and two and a half fingers.
You can charge this with a mosquito killing racket. Just disassemble it and plug one wire into the aluminium foil and the other into the nail. You will get a huge electrical shock them :D
I tried this with my friends up to 8 persons when the first person touched that nail everyone goes crazy...we played with the jar for a hour.well I thank you and appreciate for explaining the working of a capacitor thank you
I already graduated HS but my brother is still there and i take him to school. I would probably see this happen with group of people either outside the school or in a cafeteria lol
Love the video! I've been watching the King of Random for a VERY long time. But if I'm not mistaken, the plasma globe gives off an alternating current, so the capacitor would be continually charging and discharging, preventing it from actually building up any charge. You should hook it up to a car battery or Van de Graaff machine instead (since they give off a direct current), and then discharge it with something like a paper clip (or a lightbulb!)
Its the same just a lot more advanced, Stroke it get a bio data stream, Before you know it know it another Machine build for working.. Lots more fun too
GUYS! GRANT IS NOT DEAD. NOW HE IS DOING THE DIY PLANNING FOR ALL OF THESE VIDEOS. He is not dead or gone. He is the brains of the project. This allows for cool DIY projects and have daily videos.
You've created what is essentially a capacitor. A device designed to store a charge and then to rapidly release it. Camera flashes use capacitors to provide the burst of electricity needed to create a momentary burst of light. The amount of electricity a capacitor can store is measured by what's called capacitance. You can use a digital multi-meter to identify the capacitance of your Leyden Jar. Another fun experiment you can try: Take two sheets of aluminum foil and two sheets of wax paper. The width of the aluminum foil must be less than the width of the wax paper. Attach a wire to each sheet of aluminum foil. You can solder it if you like. Layer the sheets as such: foil, paper, foil, paper. Then, starting at the end with the wires, start wrapping your sandwiched sheets around a piece of pvc pipe. The aluminum foil is on the inside against the pvc pipe while the wax paper is on the outside of the wrap. Make sure that you do not have any point of contact between the two sheets of aluminum foil. The wax paper is your insulator. Use tape to hold the end of the sheet in place after you've finished wrapping your pvc pipe. You're finished. You've created another capacitor. The tighter you wrap it, the higher the capacitance you can store with your homemade capacitor.
One time my siblings, my friend, and I were on the trampoline at night. Then, my friend and my sister accidentally shocked each other with static electricity. We were so surprised that we could *see* the light that we spent the rest of the night rubbing our hair on the net and then going up to someone on the net and looking at the light (and making our hair very matted) It's cool to see and something to do if you're bored.
Cool video, just know that with some slight modification, Leyden jars can be extremely dangerous or deadly if you use a different dielectric and add more surface area.
at our library we have this bench its so cool. two people sit on it and touch the metal part on the armrest and the touch hands and it plays music. if you move your hand along the armrest it plays different music.
I’d love to see some videos on ‘testing’ your Leyden Jar. What can you charge it with? Can you regulate the discharge? Can you measure the voltage you’ve charged it to? What about using your high voltage neon sign transformer to charge?
It would work. Hold the foil, hold the screw of the light bulb, touch the tip to the nail. It might not last long enough to be able to see the light, though.
Hey grant try making smoke bomb using crayons Equipments are oil crayon , potassium nitrate , sugar and baking soda , pan and bottle Instructions are melt the oil crayon in a pan until liquid then mix with potassium nitrate,sugar and baking soda then until powdery type and pour it in the bottle and with the rope that can lit it on fire and make it like a smoke bomb
When I was in seventh grade, our shop teacher gathered all us boys into a circle. He had us all hold hands with one gap in the circle. The boy on the end held one conductor of a cord plugged into 110 volts AC socket. The shop teacher held the other condutor. He then grabbed the hand of the boy on the other side of the gap. We all felt the tingle, but the only ones to get a real shock was the kid that jerked his hand away and the one he let loose of. Us boys then decided it was an infallible test to detect the one chickens**t in group.
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The spark between that metals was blue mostly because of the emission spectrum of gases in the air and that is mostly blue color. But when you were touching it with your finger the color changed due the ions from your "burning" skin. :D And the plasma bulb didn't charge the jar because it outputs high frequency AC voltage so it was something like charging and discharging pretty fast. Maybe it could work through a rectifier.
We did the circle-of-people shock thing in 8th grade IPS class. They would never do that these days. Can you imagine if one of the kids' heart stopped? Yeah, it was a huge jolt.
At my school camp the entire boys group so about 15 boys held hands then the person at the start grabbed the electric fence and we all felt an electric shock
Do another video with more people and do some fun experiments. First, touch the foil, then hold person 2's hand, get person 2 to hold the hand of person 3 and then shake person 3's hand. Then try to charge it using a DC volt (thanks to ElectroBOOM's comment about the DC current), you can find DC adapters everywhere. Then try to light up an LED, and then burn out an LED (you're going to need to touch the foil, aka ground, touch the long leg of the LED with the same hand, then touch the short leg of the LED to the nail). Maybe make multiple jars, charger them all up, and then have some fun with them? Include the multiple people in this activity?
Great video! Small suggestion next time you do something where there may be intricate sounds could you cut the background audio/songs so we are able to hear them?
The other method is having some aluminum foil in the bottle, so wider neck bottle is better for that, then use long nail or small chain to contact the foil. Works just as well and you eliminate the corrosion issue of salt water on the metal rod.
The problem with the plasma ball is that the output is AC. Try the rectified HV output of a flyback transformer from an old CRT monitor. From personal experience, it will give you much more of a charge then you will ever expect!
Don't screw around with the flyback transformer of a CRT TV. There's even a warning on that rubber cap that covers the connector to the tube. Touch that output wire and you're dead.
Use a small electric motor (drill) to spin a piece of PVC inside of paper towels. You can use an end cap with a hole drilled for a rubber or vinyl nut/bolt hardware so the pvc wont discharge onto it. This will accelerate charging many times. If you have a long piece of metal, such as an aluminum foil strip lining one side of the PVC interior wall overlapping onto the exterior wall by a few inches, that should collect the charge. Then simply touch the nail with the charged aluminum and the charge may transfer. Or run a thin wire connected to the aluminum strip that will constantly transfer the charge into the bottle as its generated. Havent tried it but it may work. Cheap and quick build.
I would always go with a group of friends to are playground at are school on person would hold a metal pole one person would stand next to the slide everybody held pinkies and the last person would rub their hand against the slide, and shock everyone by touching the person next to the slide.
Did dat as kid with slide by going down and getting static. I think static electricity is different from the plasma globe so can be held be the capacitor
