Leyden Jar Of DOOM.

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A leyden jar is basically just a simple home made capacitor. We’ve shown you how to make them before. This, however, is how you make a ridiculously large one. [Nickademuss] used a five gallon bucket to make his leyden jar. That’s five whole gallons of lightning. The video, which you can see after the break, shows it light up the entire room when it lets out a fairly formidable spark. This is dangerous folks, be careful.

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14 thoughts on “Leyden Jar Of DOOM.

  1. >> 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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

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