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High power projects:
Jacob's Ladder
Rail gun
Tesla Coil
Other projects:
Rover
Possible Future Projects
Fusor
Sonoluminescence
Bubble Fusion
Neutron Detector(might need this if I did the bubble fusion)
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Random Infromation
I a have a capacitor bank that has a been nice for testing things like coilguns. If I remember right, its around 200J in potential, but I don't use a lot of this since I only charge it to 50V. Most of the bank is 11 9600 uF @ 50V capacitors. I got most of these electrolytic ones at Allan Supply and Steel. Some of the lower(25V) ones I scrapped out of a high power RF amplifier that I got in the free section of a garage sale. There was this guy who was a IEEE member and he had a lot of powerful ham radio equipment, which I scrapped many parts from. There also was about three oscillioscopes there, which if I was 18(will be soon) I would have sold on ebay so I could fund these projects. Might have done that with the transmitters too. I saw they where going for at least 50 dollars each. They might have gone for a lot. Out of them I have so far gotten 6 mica capacitors which are 1250V and various Aerovox pulse capacitors, but nothing really large like I was hoping. I did get a large supply of high wattage resistors and some selenium rectifiers(poisonous, fun).
As far as other high voltage projects, they are powered with a 10500 V neon sign transformer(NST). The NST was originally gotten for a Tesla coil, which started most of these projects as once you have the parts for one, the others are much easier. I first used it to make a Jacob's ladder, which I found to be quite entertaining. I don't trust the homemade mineral oil capacitor for my Tesla coil as the voltameter does not give it a reading, but then again the voltameter doesn't work very good either so who knows. Now that I have the rectifiers I might be able to set up a AC to DC converter for my NST, which will be good since I won't burn out another HeNe laser(sort of burned out 2 already). Anyways, I'm not entirely sure that I can even use the rectifiers as it is hard to find information on them. Most sites just talk about how you should get rid of them!
Projects that might be intersting, but I don't think I'd do
Particle accelerator