Various Experiments

Bob

Air purifiers emit an equal amount of positive ions as well
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Now this I have to disagree with. Although I suppose one could be put together to emmit both kinds of ions. I was just studying this about six months ago. If you go back to basic AC to DC rectification, only full wave rectification produces both halves of the AC component in the output. A half wave rectifier will produce just half of the AC voltage wave. Either the positive or the negative half can be chosen. The ion generators work on the half wave generation principle. What happens to the other half is that it is shunted to earth ground. So the output really is a voltage either above or below earth ground potential. The ion wind flow generators work by placing a grounded circular ring in the direction wind flow is desired. Some of the ions wind up going to ground, but air is moved in the process. Most of the air that does move just keeps on flowing by the grounded ring. This is the basic concept behind an ion propulsion engine.

Now you are talking about using negative voltage generated magnetic fields to create the column of air. I don't really know if there would be any repulsion between the magnetic field and the negative ions. Remember magnetism is a force generated at right angles to electric fields. I do know charged particles will follow the lines of magnetic force. So you might be able to create a larger concentration of ions with the use of a magnetic field.

Ion wind generators do not produce a lot of thrust. But a large number of them working in unison might work. Just remember too much charge buildup in a confined area probably would result in a lightening discharge strike to ground. I would suggest using a grounded containment cage during testing, just to safegaurd against any explosive electrical discharge.
 
Yes, what you say is entirely true. But that is not the observation I was describing. I was observing the voltage field generated by my tesla coil.
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What's a "voltage field"?

There are electric fields, and magnetic fields. What excatly do you mean by "voltage field"?

I was getting a negative voltage inductuion into a pickup coil that I had connected to my voltmeter. It was negative voltage that had no source other than induction through the space. But what amazed me was that the value was a DC value. I did reverse the voltmeter leads thinking it was maybe just that. But that made no difference. Thats the part that blew me away.
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I'm willing to bet that if you turn the voltmeter around in space by 180 degrees, it will register a positive voltage. I suggest you try that, and post your results here.

There is a very simple reason for these results: When you put a voltmeters in an electromagnetic field, it registers a voltage in the direction of the field. Your tesla coil, it appears, generates a steady electric field around it. That's all there is to it.
 
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What's a "voltage field"?

There are electric fields, and magnetic fields. What excatly do you mean by "voltage field"?
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I was referring to the area around the tesla coil. Since I am picking up induced voltage in a pickup coil, I naturally call it a voltage field. But you are correct in your statement that there are electric and magnetic fields present. Since the voltage is very high with a tesla coil the current has been sacrificed in the multiplication stage. So very little current is present flowing through the coil. Almost no current translates into almost no magnetic field. But there probably is a very strong electric field present.

I'm willing to bet that if you turn the voltmeter around in space by 180 degrees, it will register a positive voltage. I suggest you try that, and post your results here.
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You lost the bet, I spent several months last year investigating this. The voltmeter was always kept outside the negative voltage zone. I was mapping the field with the sensor coil and discovered that there is a sherical field that drops in negative intensity past zero then sharply rises to a small positive value and then drops off to normal about five feet away. Now your idea to turn around the voltmeter really doesn't make any sense since voltmeters aren't spatially sensitive to orientation. I did try it and no difference noted. But the pickup coil should pickup varying voltage depending on its orientation. It didn't. The negative voltage generation is non directional. I don't think this is magnetically induced voltage. I believe it is entirely electric field induction. Because of the way the voltage is induced noting the observations, I have to conclude that the voltage field is not moving linearly. It would seem that the field is continuously collapsing. In one direction. Seems as if I found another way to make an electron move. I did notice during my observations that the negatively induced voltage increases when I removed the path to ground for the secondary arc to jump to. There still would be some current flow through ionization of the air. But basically with an open circuit condition there is more negative voltage induction potential. So I am leaning toward the idea that this is almost entirely induced voltage from an electric field.

Now my tesla coil is a DC tesla coil. But I was not aware that DC could be transferred by induction. But it is pulsed DC. Anyway I like to make theories on how thinks work. I have speculated that it is the mass change during nuclear reactions on the sun that is responcible for the creation of gravity. The mass drops into a lower energy state during the hydrogen to helium reaction. Energy is released. Now it appears my tesla coil was causing an electric field to behave the same way as I've speculated mass does on the sun. The electric field is continuously changing to a lesser value. That made me wonder if maybe there also could be some similar type of gravity reaction. So I set up my tesla coil to investigate this possibility. Apparently you may not have seen this video. Most of the others have.

Tesla Coil Gravity
 
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