wow, thats a nice sized spark right there….imagine touching that damn thing…..

Posted at 4:48 pm on Jan 24th, 2009 by corp769

That’d make one HELL of a photo-flash tazer!

Posted at 5:23 pm on Jan 24th, 2009 by joe57005

Imagine away, actually touching it probably is the last thing you’d do!

Posted at 6:25 pm on Jan 24th, 2009 by Sean

“That’s five whole gallons of lightening”

i think its spelled “lightning”

Posted at 6:36 pm on Jan 24th, 2009 by andres

I find the Edgar Snyder ads on the page highly ironic. XD “Injured in a Leyden jar accident? There’s no fee unless we get money for you!”

Posted at 8:55 pm on Jan 24th, 2009 by Ed

If only I cuold use this to lower my gas bill. I would be one happy man lol.

Posted at 2:59 pm on Jan 25th, 2009 by firedward

I once made one from a gallon sized pickle jar but it never occurred to me to make a capacitor from a five gallon bucket.

Posted at 4:32 pm on Jan 26th, 2009 by nitori

What would the value of this thing be in Farads?

Posted at 5:54 pm on Jan 26th, 2009 by Jonathan Wilson

>> What would the value of this thing be in Farads?

Probably not all that high. Likely in the low nano range.
I built some soda bottle capacitors that were only a few nano farad, but would store tens of thousands of volts and would throw an arc several inches long once the voltage reached the gaps breaking point.

Posted at 10:22 pm on Jan 26th, 2009 by shrumby

Next thing to do is to make a 55 gallon plastic drum leyden jar. That things would make one hell of a spark probably cause an Electromagnetic Pulse to generate from the size and voltage. Anyone want to try this? Post a video if you do.

Posted at 9:41 pm on Feb 28th, 2009 by SETH_HIKARU

Wow. My HS Physics teacher always wanted to separate a coulomb of charge. That monster might do it!

Posted at 3:06 pm on Mar 18th, 2009 by Tom the Brat

i need some research on leyden jar’s i you know anything email me at mz.sexy57@yahoo.com

Posted at 5:51 pm on Sep 16th, 2009 by boitrice

I once built 5 55 gal. drum caps wired in parallel and elevated 10 ft in the air on a platform and secured laying on their sides. The outer bottom was connected to the earth ground, and the center poles were connected to a helium balloon with fine wire to attract a lightning bolt from the approaching storm.

I got a good hit, but couldn’t get close enough to discharge them completely. The farmer ended up letting his cattle in the field, and a cow got fried. I still had a lethal charge stored and discharged it with a closet pole with a long wire draped to the ground. I destroyed them after that.

Posted at 7:00 pm on Nov 9th, 2009 by Extrordinary1