Comments on: Leyden jar of DOOM.

By: echodelta

echodelta — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 09:18:00 +0000

Subterranean chambers insulated connected to cellphone towers, DC-AC converters our “smart”grid.
It’s what powered the Krell machine.
Forty miles of klystron relays in every direction.
Forbidden Planet
1956

By: Extrordinary1

Extrordinary1 — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:00:47 +0000

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.

By: boitrice

boitrice — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:51:54 +0000

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By: Tom the Brat

Tom the Brat — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:06:17 +0000

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

By: SETH_HIKARU

SETH_HIKARU — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 05:41:56 +0000

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.

By: shrumby

shrumby — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 06:22:44 +0000

>> 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.

By: Jonathan Wilson

Jonathan Wilson — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 01:54:50 +0000

What would the value of this thing be in Farads?

By: nitori

nitori — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:32:05 +0000

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.

By: firedward

firedward — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 22:59:51 +0000

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

By: Ed

Ed — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 04:55:31 +0000

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!”

By: andres

andres — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 02:36:30 +0000

“That’s five whole gallons of lightening”

i think its spelled “lightning”

By: Sean

Sean — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 02:25:59 +0000

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

By: joe57005

joe57005 — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 01:23:25 +0000

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

By: corp769

corp769 — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 00:48:24 +0000

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