Chizhevsky ion generator PSU full build

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  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 พ.ค. 2021
  • The original concept of air ionisers is attributed to a Russian scientist called Alexander Chizhevsky.
    I thought I'd honour him with a build of an ioniser with a needle array styled on the Chizhevsky Chandeliers, which were large ornate metal frames with lots of ionising spikes on them, that were hung from the ceilings of large public buildings in Russia.
    The needle array I ended up building for this unit is based on a disk of PCB material drilled with holes and fitted with a circle of needles. I'd hoped to bend the needles out at 45 degrees, but they turned out to be very brittle.
    In reality, while the electrostatic precipitation of dust was a useful if somewhat messy effect, the ambient generation of trace levels of ozone and other short-lived active molecules prevalent in natural outdoor air was probably the real reason the ionisers gave a renewed freshness to the stale indoor air.
    Here's a link to Alexander's Wikipedia page:-
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexand...
    If you enjoy these videos you can help support the channel with a dollar for coffee, cookies and random gadgets for disassembly at:-
    / bigclive (extra streams and channel interaction)
    Or alternatively:-
    www.bigclive.com/coffee.htm
    This also keeps the channel independent of TH-cam's advertising algorithms allowing it to be a bit more dangerous and naughty.
    #ElectronicsCreators
    You can download the Minion PCB manufacturing files at this link, ready for submitting as a single file to a PCB manufacturer:- www.bigclive.com/freebies.htm
    Here's the openscad script for the 3D printed diode former:-
    //BCDC Diode lead former for ioniser/ionizer
    difference(){
    union(){
    //main block
    translate([0,0,0])
    cube([30,19,4]);
    }
    //lead recess
    translate([-1,9,3.5])
    cube([30,1,1]);
    //diode recess
    translate([22,8,2.51])
    cube([9,3,3]);
    //lead guide
    translate([29,9,-1])
    cube([1.1,1,6]);
    }
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  • @Mr7yhnmki8
    @Mr7yhnmki8 3 ปีที่แล้ว +193

    I don’t know what that thing is, but it’s the best one I’ve ever seen.

    • @conceptrat
      @conceptrat 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I believe it's an ear wax remover of sorts or perhaps space detector @40:30 😜

    • @DenkyManner
      @DenkyManner 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It's an electronic box.

    • @esecallum
      @esecallum 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@DenkyManner By the use of a modified ionizer device we describe effective prevention of airborne transmitted influenza A (strain Panama 99) virus infection between animals and inactivation of virus (>97%). Active ionizer prevented 100% (4/4) of guinea pigs from infection. Moreover, the device effectively captured airborne transmitted calicivirus, rotavirus and influenza virus, with recovery rates up to 21% after 40 min in a 19 m3 room. The ionizer generates negative ions, rendering airborne particles/aerosol droplets negatively charged and electrostatically attracts them to a positively charged collector plate. Trapped viruses are then identified by reverse transcription quantitative real-time PCR. The device enables unique possibilities for rapid and simple removal of virus from air and offers possibilities to simultaneously identify and prevent airborne transmission of viruses.
      There is an urgent need for simple, portable and sensitive devices to collect, eliminate and identify viruses from air, to rapidly detect and prevent outbreaks and spread of infectious diseases1. Each year, infectious diseases cause millions of deaths around the world and many of the most common infectious pathogens are spread by droplets or aerosols caused by cough, sneeze, vomiting etc.2,3,4,5. Knowledge of aerosol transmission mechanisms are limited for most pathogens, although spread by air is an important transmission route for many pathogens including viruses6.

    • @conceptrat
      @conceptrat 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@DenkyManner It's a Blue Box of Doom! 😬

    • @conceptrat
      @conceptrat 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Better yet. If Clive wired it incorrectly it could be a new drinking game for the next meeting of minds video.

  • @johnbarbrook
    @johnbarbrook 3 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    Those mad soldering skills though. There is a man that doesn't need a wobbly helping hand from Maplins.

  • @GreenJimll
    @GreenJimll 3 ปีที่แล้ว +142

    That 3d printed diode former is very neat.

    • @Agarico
      @Agarico 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      TH-cam: Video posted 2 hours ago
      Also TH-cam: Comment posted 1 week ago on 2 hour old video.
      Yes.

    • @Purple431
      @Purple431 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You have the same name as me :D

    • @senorcapitandiogenes2068
      @senorcapitandiogenes2068 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@Agarico Patreon People get access to videos a week early

    • @tkermi
      @tkermi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yes! This kind of simple, purpose built tools are really useful and cool. I have made some for creating correct spacing and working as heat shields 🙂.

    • @rosieone6519
      @rosieone6519 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Agarico 0b bvb.

  • @chocolate_squiggle
    @chocolate_squiggle 3 ปีที่แล้ว +89

    I see a tiny circuit board, and a 41 minute video. It must be story time :-)

  • @Ed19601
    @Ed19601 3 ปีที่แล้ว +99

    I have brought more lead into the environment in the few years i fished as a kid than in all my years of soldering

    • @Joe-Dead
      @Joe-Dead 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      the lead was mainly a phase out because of mass manufacturing, home hobbyists/professionals or even repair shops aren't going to pump out the kind of volume a factory could. and yeah, lost more lead fishing and to BB's as a kid. there's more lead pumped into the environment just from outdoor hunters...so anyone worrying about the lead in solder needs to get some perspective. yeah it's dangerous but good odds depending on where you live your environment gives you more exposure than what you'd get soldering. anywhere there was a war with firearms there's lead everywhere, pipes, paint, leaded gasoline/petrol...
      perspective definitely required. sorry for the rant, studied lead and the environment, there's still some high traffic parts of cities where you can see old buildings yellowed/discolored from lead oxides (+ some other nasty lead compounds) from the days of leaded gasoline.

    • @Ed19601
      @Ed19601 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Joe-Dead totally agree

    • @SimonStuff2000
      @SimonStuff2000 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      You use a car battery for fishing? Cool!

    • @Ed19601
      @Ed19601 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@SimonStuff2000 don't you?

    • @NinoJoel
      @NinoJoel 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@SimonStuff2000 give it a try its fast and easy

  • @putteslaintxtbks5166
    @putteslaintxtbks5166 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Back in the late 1980's, I bought a couple ion generators through the mail that had real good output, used about 4 watts. They gave me a free gift with them that I used till a few years ago. It was a pcb about an inch acrost and 2.5-3 inches long at one end was a small light, (maybe a neon?) And on the other, a metal pad, on the board, for your thumb. The light would blink in the presence of neg. Ions and the stronger, the faster the blink. It was great for testing how well your negative ion generators were working. I use to have a work area hood to pull air through a filter and in front of the filter, a negative ion generator and a florescent light. When the light was off, it would blink brightly about once a minite or two.

  • @gramursowanfaborden5820
    @gramursowanfaborden5820 3 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    that diode forming jig is one of the things people will find in 1000 years and never figure out what it was for.

  • @chinanorthairguns
    @chinanorthairguns 3 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    When I was in the animal trade, customs in the UK used to steal chameleons when they were passing through heathrow. I solved this problem by having the shipper add cobras to the paperwork, and label all boxes venomous even on orders that did not contain venomous snakes.

    • @dsloop3907
      @dsloop3907 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Perhaps the sneaky chameleons were not stolen, but just doing their thing really well.

    • @nornironniall
      @nornironniall 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Ironic that you had to commit fraud to stop the authorities from stealing from you.

    • @snakezdewiggle6084
      @snakezdewiggle6084 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Snakez Rule !

    • @PunakiviAddikti
      @PunakiviAddikti 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Customs are scummy thieves. All they do is steal money and packages from people.

  • @ElvenSpellmaker
    @ElvenSpellmaker 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    There's something so satisfying about watching someone re-flow and straightening up the components! =)

    • @jamesplotkin4674
      @jamesplotkin4674 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      There's another utuber who constantly tap-tap-taps the iron whilst soldering and makes me yell at my monitor! Dammit, man, just apply heat and solder... and be done with it! Clive knows how to do it well ;-)

  • @channelsixtysix066
    @channelsixtysix066 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Clive, I thought I'd heard the Cockcroft name before. He's none other than a co-winner of the 1951 Nobel Prize with Walton, for splitting atomic nuclei. He studied under Rutherford.
    My favorite will always be 2001 A Space Odyssey (1968). The sets of inside the space craft and station "look plausible" because of the level of detail.

  • @sumatoborukiSaru
    @sumatoborukiSaru 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    I built an air ioniser from a design in Australian Electronics Monthly many years ago. Funny thing was that it never got used for it's intended purpose. I had an issue with one of the neighbourhood moggies peeing on my front door, so I taped a sheet of aluminium to the lower part of the door & attached the output of the ioniser to the foil. Never had a pee problem after that. 😋

    • @theskett
      @theskett 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      An old acquaintance worked for the National Coal Board (in the UK) and found that the other (miner) employees would pee on the corner of his Portakabin office, when heading to / from their shifts.
      Eventually, he wired up a Megger to provide suitably-high voltage in the area, and the pee'ing quickly ceased.
      IIRC there was a complaint lodged, but my acquaintance successfully claimed that the zapping was due to "static electricity" :-)

  • @ZeedijkMike
    @ZeedijkMike 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Relaxation to the 10th degree.
    Like the way you move the solder to the next joint while stil finishing up the previous. Looks like a very smooth action.

    • @DrFod
      @DrFod 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      It's quite a contrast to the butchery which could describe my soldering technique.

    • @bigfoottaylor8812
      @bigfoottaylor8812 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      It's just good technique, if you don't move it the solder wire sticks

  • @ChemicalU235
    @ChemicalU235 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Amen Clive amen.... your rant about non technical people making decisions about technical stuff is spot on. The amount of fear people have over things they don't understand is mind blowing. Other day I was melting Am 239 pellets into larger pellets and my friends were freaking out cuz the geiger counter was 18k cpm and the metal was like 2150°F They were so scared and were like what does 18k cpm mean and I simply said don't eat it!!!

  • @Gurumurthyify
    @Gurumurthyify 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Yay! a build project. I love watching Clive the master assembler at work. Seeing all of these little tips & tricks in real time managing the practicalities of inserting and holding components along with the odd glitch and finger warming moment(!) really helps build my own confidence at the bench!

  • @stevedaenginerd
    @stevedaenginerd 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    22:30 - 23:00 Well founded concept for a rant in my opinion.

  • @EsotericArctos
    @EsotericArctos 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I always enjoy a good kit build. The stories and information from commentary is always quite enlightening.

  • @thereare4lights137
    @thereare4lights137 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    We're not scared of your face. You have a very kind face 😊

  • @mat.phillips
    @mat.phillips 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Run a bead of hot-glue down the circuit board for about 5 capacitors, fit them, then run a bit more glue, fit more capacitors and repeat until done. Then you can turn the board over and solder them all in. The glue will add mechanical stability to the caps too.

  • @ChrisShenar
    @ChrisShenar 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I do so enjoy watching you build stuff, Clive...True artistry!

  • @mcgie2002
    @mcgie2002 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You are such a joy to listen to Clive, thank you 🙏

  • @ZaneDaMagicPufferDragon
    @ZaneDaMagicPufferDragon 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    42 minutes of soldering 👨🏻‍🏭 pleasure with questions!!! Bravo 👏🏻 Big Clive!!!

  • @tazz1669
    @tazz1669 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Great build, love the circuit boards and the translucent case is perfect for this

  • @nigel-matthews
    @nigel-matthews 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank you kindly for the PCB file! This looks quite satisfying to build.

  • @JayH7745
    @JayH7745 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Like you Clive, I am a big fan of these generators. This video had my attention from start to finish. Very nice compact unit. A+

  • @erikdenhouter
    @erikdenhouter 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Special effects so convincing: the next step is to show reality, but 'damage' it ever so slightly that you think it is fake.

  • @acmefixer1
    @acmefixer1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    We have a local landmark called Red Hill. The soil is red from the cinnabar in it - which has mercury. People live on and around the Red Hill, no one is complaining.

  • @VisDeux
    @VisDeux 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Really impressed by your multitasking abilities on this one. I barely could follow both your unrelated manual work and discussions, I have no idea how you manage to DO it. Great show ^_^

  • @ecc84
    @ecc84 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I remember many years ago when Ionisers were first a thing and my Parents had one of those pyramid ones in the living room. Me being the curious bastard i am was intrigued by it and noticed that from the side of the unit there protruded what looked like very fine wires. Well needless to say one has to touch it just to see what happens, well all i can say is it fucking smarted somewhat and i believe my hair did stand on end.....an interesting experiment if i do say so myself, although it doesn't beat the experiment i performed when i was about seven years old. This was before the times when we had three pin sockets with the protective earths on them instead we had two pin sockets with absolutely no protection on the plug or the socket apart from the old Wylex rewirable fuses. Again me being the little shit that i was when younger (my Mother always used to say she would shit herself everytime she went out of the house in case when she came back i had taken the tv to bits just to see how it works lol) so i found this hairpin (you can see where this is going can't you).and i thought to myself what is the harm in putting this in the two pins. what i remember next isn't very much apart from me putting the pin in then everything went black. I next remember running into the kitchen doing my best Al Jolson impression at which my Mother nearly fainted and my Dad nearly had a coronary. The socket was duly removed immediately. Luckily for me i had picked up a hairpin that had plastic ends on it so luckily i wasn't electrocuted (but i needed new pants).

  • @fluffycritter
    @fluffycritter 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I am definitely on team OpenSCAD for my functional modeling. It's so nice being able to do things in terms of components which are repeatable, especially when doing more complicated interlocking case designs. Plus I find typing to be way more accessible than mousing to me.

  • @trevorspice2122
    @trevorspice2122 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Nice to see another build Clive 👍 thanks.

  • @pantherplatform
    @pantherplatform 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Watching you solder that board is very satisfying.

  • @gregf9160
    @gregf9160 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    There has to be a follow-up with a schematic discussion of Cockcroft-Walton multipliers. I know how they work, but I could listen to them being talked about all day.

  • @tomvleeuwen
    @tomvleeuwen 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Lead-based solders makes repairing stuff so much more viable that I don't think banning it completely has a positive effect on the environment. However, the switch to lead-free solder in production only had a temporary negative effect on the reliability of products (and hence the environment), but will from now on forever reduce hazardous materials being released in the environment. Hence I think the current situation should be maintained where it is allowed to use lead-based solder on a small scale.

  • @stridermt2k
    @stridermt2k 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Woo full build!
    It's almost as good as doing myself except without the solder and coffee smell, but that's easily enough remedied! With solder...and COFFEE!
    You rock man, and you rock the Isle of Mann!

  • @BensWorkshop
    @BensWorkshop 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    It's very interesting to hear what makes fresh air fresh.

  • @rogermckenzie2711
    @rogermckenzie2711 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I made one of these some years ago as a negative ion generator, then found that if the protection resistor is switched out of circuit it can power a very effective anti-predator fence around my fish pond, with no permanent injuries!

    • @bigclivedotcom
      @bigclivedotcom  3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Don't remove the resistor. That could deliver a direct mains shock. But even with the original resistors it will impart a nose-zap to critters.

  • @craigsimmons1407
    @craigsimmons1407 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very interesting to see something built from start to finish

  • @steveshadowphoto9346
    @steveshadowphoto9346 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Another wonderful project! Thanks!

  • @GlennHamblin
    @GlennHamblin 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Every body smiles at explosions! Irresistible!

  • @nomusicrc
    @nomusicrc 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I love how easy you can contort your fingers to solder

  • @Jim-si7wz
    @Jim-si7wz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    May be we should have more garages added to our houses, after all I recon there was more designing and creating in garages than in Labs or any where else, by just normal technical people?

    • @bigclivedotcom
      @bigclivedotcom  3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Still is. Britain in particular is full of silent inventors, with many of the technical breakthroughs never being made public.

    • @snakezdewiggle6084
      @snakezdewiggle6084 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yes, definitely Britain, followed by New Zealand, then Australia, historically.

    • @ericlotze7724
      @ericlotze7724 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I am team "Makerspaces", where you can give the community access to all sorts of amazing prototyping/manufacturing/testing equipment in a similar manner to what a gym does for expensive exercise equipment.

    • @ericlotze7724
      @ericlotze7724 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      You can even do small versions of these in garages!
      (Also "toolshares" where instead of each person having a crappy tool for when they need it, you get a few great ones for your local toolshare that can be loaned out like books at a library)

    • @Jim-si7wz
      @Jim-si7wz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@ericlotze7724 now that is what I am talking about, why is there no local community centres where young people can go and learn for free what ever they are interested in, we need them every where local centres for skills the older or people with skills that have time could help with lectures and examples that the young and older ones can actually do.

  • @frankowalker4662
    @frankowalker4662 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Nice soldering and a cool Ionizer.

  • @jimsimpson8663
    @jimsimpson8663 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Hi Clive , I've been intrigued by these devices for a long time , good build . I like Jimmy 60 's comments , my shed is full of experimental gadgets , hydrogen generater , vortex tube etc, etc thanks again - Jim

  • @nicholasvalentine3907
    @nicholasvalentine3907 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Clive you solder basic through hole tech very much like me, although I don't "finger juggle" so much (hey if you can pull it off, as you can, there is nothing wrong with that, but my hands are showing my age and a life time of pro wiring), I use pillar drill & ball vices or crocodile clip type helping hands more often than you do. One thing I do though, out of habit, is to splay the leads out once they are placed through the circuit board to hold the component in place until soldering. It is good to see on TH-cam though, someone actually applying best practice to soldering.
    All the best.

  • @R_Forde
    @R_Forde 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I found a great rechargeable ionizer I use in my refrigerator. It works well to stop cross contamination of smells and flavors. It is also supposed to keep produce fresher longer but I'm not sure I believe that part.

    • @bigclivedotcom
      @bigclivedotcom  3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      If it's a fridge ozone generator then it does kill surface bacteria on food.

    • @R_Forde
      @R_Forde 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@bigclivedotcom It is designed and sold to be used in the refrigerator. Thanks for the ♥

  • @ZsomborZsombibi
    @ZsomborZsombibi 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Usual content on TH-cam that is more than 40mins long: skip to next.
    Clive's 40min video: enjoyed from start to end.

  • @andyfranklunamorales2511
    @andyfranklunamorales2511 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    nada mejor que verte trabajar eres un gran maestro. saludos

  • @telephony
    @telephony 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Fantastic little project!!! 💖🤩🤗🤩💖
    I remember my first line-powered project build from the mid-1970s -- it was a relaxation oscillator-based neon flasher that spelled out my name in independently-flashing NE2 lamps built into a nice wood and naugahide cabinet. When I plugged it up, I was "rewarded" with a fairly loud pop, a flash of bluish-white light, and a puff of somewhat acrid smoke...oops!!! 😲
    If I remember correctly, I had inadvertently connected a diode directly across the AC power input.

  • @robertcoulthard7461
    @robertcoulthard7461 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Very cool. Thank you Clive

  • @albanana683
    @albanana683 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Adding another vote for you to publish your 3D printed, parts bending jigs, they look very handy.

    • @phonotical
      @phonotical 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      They're like $2 on ebay

    • @calvaryapologetics
      @calvaryapologetics 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@phonotical Or around 20 cents to print

    • @phonotical
      @phonotical 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@calvaryapologetics minus the cost of a printer, filament and electricity

    • @ES-xq7iu
      @ES-xq7iu 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Design it yourself you lazy pig

    • @phonotical
      @phonotical 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@ES-xq7iu are you 15? Because the energy you put into that and still got it wrong, you could have used toward making your life better, and then maybe you wouldn't feel so depressed and lonely all the time...

  • @urhotmom
    @urhotmom 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Am I the only one excited when bigclive posts up a new video?

  • @cyril.figgis
    @cyril.figgis 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Big Clive's bear milk! Sounds like a pretty good name for a men's "performance" drink!

    • @jazzdirt
      @jazzdirt 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah, changed my mind, not actually gonna touch on this.... ;P

  • @captiveimage
    @captiveimage 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Your soldering technique is so cool. SO much quicker than mucking about with blue-tack or other techniques I've tried in the past, though a prerequisite for having asbestos fingers ;-)

  • @jclowe735
    @jclowe735 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I'd like to see more videos like this it's very nice and it looks like it can be repeated.

  • @tomhood8897
    @tomhood8897 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thanks, Clive!

  • @carpdog42
    @carpdog42 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Openscad is great because it lets you use version control. I love being able to pop out, branch off, and try something out. Sure, I could save off versioned file names, but that gets unwieldly fast and is why we have version control systems like git. I have no problem being opinionated on this: Openscad + Git is the best possible world of 3d modeling for anything other than artistic modeling use.

  • @ericlotze7724
    @ericlotze7724 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I was thinking on making an Open Source Electrostatic Precipitator sometime, and this will definitely come in handy!

  • @Nono-hk3is
    @Nono-hk3is 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you Clive!

  • @welshtony1
    @welshtony1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    So I have just watched this for 42 minutes and I still have no idea what it is but it looks cool.

  • @Peter_A1466
    @Peter_A1466 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    What a nice clean design.

  • @SardiPax
    @SardiPax 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I made one of these many years ago using pins for the electrodes. To test it I had a neon with a ceramic capacitor across it which would start flashing when held near as I was holding/grounding one side and the other collected charge from the air.

  • @sysmatt
    @sysmatt 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Both philips/cross head and flat head screws can make quite a bit of corona with all the sharp angles, a glob of RTV or hot melt on the output terrminal screw head might be a good idea... great vid

  • @twocvbloke
    @twocvbloke 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    All we need now is to turn it into a form of ion propulsion, even Scotty is impressed at such technology... :D

  • @ttony24
    @ttony24 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Loving your "chopstick" soldering technique Clive :)

  • @petersage5157
    @petersage5157 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    If you're interested in WTF FPGAs actually are, EEVblog did a decent video about them. The tl;dr is that they're exactly what it says on the tin - an array of gates with a lattice of connections that are configured on the fly. Most modern oscilloscopes, including the entry-level ones, run embedded Linux on FPGAs to get nearly real-time performance.

    • @amyzander3541
      @amyzander3541 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      A fancy 2GHz scope I hired had Windows either XP or 7 lol!

  • @johnkelly1083
    @johnkelly1083 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I like the attachment you have in the thumbnail. Looks very mysterious.

  • @JerryEricsson
    @JerryEricsson 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Being an old fart who was alive and watching TV when Star Trek came on first run, I had to comment. In 1971 when i returned from my tour in Vietnam, I was stationed out at Fort Lewis Washington. We found an apartment in Tacoma where my wife, and our son lived. We still had an old Black and White TV, but our neighbors in the next apartment had color. It was there that I learned to my despair that Spock had white skin and not green as I had always imagined when watching it in Black and White.

  • @MrDbrennen
    @MrDbrennen 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Bought an ioniser a couple of days ago and have been running it 24/7 in my bedroom. Not sure if I've fallen for the quackery but the air even FEELS cleaner.

  • @scottfirman
    @scottfirman 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I remember the ionizers used in bars to neutralize the tobacco smoke. I remember a reseturaunt I cleaned wanted me to clean theirs. I told them to get bent. It was 20+ years old and never cleaned. I told them it probably not work again if I cleaned it. A month later, they removed it and trashed it.

  • @blkmgk16
    @blkmgk16 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Great video! I love doing these chips cant wait till I can design my own! After hearing you say carbon Fibre, I think it's time for a burglar alarm teardown 😉

  • @mevk1
    @mevk1 ปีที่แล้ว

    My favorite quote: "Nothing beats bringing in air from the outside but it's not practical all the time for heat reasons". Outside air is normally so much cleaner then inside air.

  • @steveguestart3377
    @steveguestart3377 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hi Big Clive. My favourite youtube person. I reckon you might want to reread the current research and scholarly articles on the toxic and pathological effects of ozone on lung and other tissue in concentrations that these little devices put out. Cheers mate.

    • @bigclivedotcom
      @bigclivedotcom  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      These units put out much less ozone than occurs in nature. If you stood on your own in the middle of a remote forest you would be breathing in 100 trillion molecules of ozone with every breath. It's an essential component of air that gets depleted quickly indoors.
      To compare natural levels of ozone to concentrated and dangerous levels is like saying "Any humidity in the air is dangerous because people can drown in water."

  • @kevinwhiteland904
    @kevinwhiteland904 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    When I worked for care refrigeration I did the ozone machine on the penguin pool at Bristol zoo it still keeps the water spotless in the pool today that was with a Dunham Bush unit and I did a lot of work off shore in the North Sea oil rigs all over the world as well regards Kev.

  • @NaterNorris
    @NaterNorris 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Good video Clive

  • @stevewag7373
    @stevewag7373 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Living in Australia one of my favourite things to make are Mossie Zappers

    • @thatwomanoverthere5420
      @thatwomanoverthere5420 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Do you have a diagram/fave ali supplier? I'm bored in Thailand and would find this useful and fun :)

    • @esecallum
      @esecallum 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      By the use of a modified ionizer device we describe effective prevention of airborne transmitted influenza A (strain Panama 99) virus infection between animals and inactivation of virus (>97%). Active ionizer prevented 100% (4/4) of guinea pigs from infection. Moreover, the device effectively captured airborne transmitted calicivirus, rotavirus and influenza virus, with recovery rates up to 21% after 40 min in a 19 m3 room. The ionizer generates negative ions, rendering airborne particles/aerosol droplets negatively charged and electrostatically attracts them to a positively charged collector plate. Trapped viruses are then identified by reverse transcription quantitative real-time PCR. The device enables unique possibilities for rapid and simple removal of virus from air and offers possibilities to simultaneously identify and prevent airborne transmission of viruses.
      There is an urgent need for simple, portable and sensitive devices to collect, eliminate and identify viruses from air, to rapidly detect and prevent outbreaks and spread of infectious diseases1. Each year, infectious diseases cause millions of deaths around the world and many of the most common infectious pathogens are spread by droplets or aerosols caused by cough, sneeze, vomiting etc.2,3,4,5. Knowledge of aerosol transmission mechanisms are limited for most pathogens, although spread by air is an important transmission route for many pathogens including viruses6.

  • @TheSlyMouse
    @TheSlyMouse 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I enjoy the ionizer videos.

  • @CubbyTech
    @CubbyTech 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Interesting diffuser you have in the thumbnail! Was hoping to see it in the video!

    • @bigclivedotcom
      @bigclivedotcom  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      It was built afterwards from a piece of PCB material. But a carbon fiber emitter performs much better.

  • @ecmphg
    @ecmphg 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Perfect. Thank you

  • @rjy8960
    @rjy8960 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I'm just moving across to LED lighting primarily because I didn't realise that the new ones are based on a linear design. I'm a radio amateur and am in a constant fight against EMI and really wanted to avoid anything with a SMPSU. You gave me the heads up, Clive :)

  • @rambo1152
    @rambo1152 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" had the best blinky-light computer.

  • @LXXero
    @LXXero 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    i love those little hammond project boxes, i have made tons of things in those

  • @keithking1985
    @keithking1985 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    P.S. Clive that was a nice build : ) i really like the blue neon. it looks like a VERY quite spark-gap! : )

  • @timodonnell6870
    @timodonnell6870 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    love to see a colab between big clive and technology connections

  • @davesimms8825
    @davesimms8825 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The reason for nonlead solder is for plumbing applications, because no one wants lead in their water.

    • @bigclivedotcom
      @bigclivedotcom  3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Unfortunately it was also applied to electronics.

    • @davesimms8825
      @davesimms8825 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@bigclivedotcom I was in water treatment for about 12 years. I’m pretty sure you can still buy the leaded version here in Canada, you just shouldn’t use it in plumbing applications.

  • @MCBatty80
    @MCBatty80 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I was watching the fur attached to the end of the wire attract to the probe at 37:52. Nice build.

  • @mkase4697
    @mkase4697 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very therapeutic video, as always Clive. Thank you. On the 3D printer side, from your comments it sounds like you are using PLA for printing. I also had some of the problems you have had and found that borosilicate glass was the answer for me. It also meant I could remove the glass and clean it easily. The glass is held down with paper clamps onto the heated bed and I use Pritt glue stick (not the cheaper alternatives from Poundland I'm afraid - I have tried) to apply a thin layer to where I am printing. Works a real treat and as soon as the bed cools the part just pops off. In winter I bump up the bed temp up from 40 to 50 degrees to make sure my cold house doesnt cause the part to detach prematurely (has happened...). To clean the glass, just ordinary soap and water is all that is needed. If you dont have some of this glass, let me know and I will order some for you.

    • @bigclivedotcom
      @bigclivedotcom  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      A new layer of glass is a good idea. I wonder if it would work with picture frame glass.

  • @Nono-hk3is
    @Nono-hk3is 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    A good result!

  • @untrust2033
    @untrust2033 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Cable tie cable clamp is an excellent idea

  • @shadid516
    @shadid516 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    There is nothing like a bigclive video in the morning

    • @RS-Amsterdam
      @RS-Amsterdam 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Not even the smell of napalm !!!

  • @ewozniak5228
    @ewozniak5228 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Clive: "I've been waiting a very long time for my order from RAPID ELECTRONICS".... LOL!!!

    • @peterg.8245
      @peterg.8245 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Is the sales representatives name Ox Moron?

  • @bryanhickman7663
    @bryanhickman7663 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    For special effects before it's time, you must see Forbidden Planet (1956) in color. The mother of good space sci. fi.? Roddenberry notes it as an inspiration for Star Trek, and introduced Robbie the Robot... who was used in several other movies, and inspired the robot from Lost in Space.

    • @burtgummer9057
      @burtgummer9057 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      In one episode of Lost In Space Robbie the Robot appears and has a fight (!) with the Lost in Space robot...

  • @hectorpascal
    @hectorpascal 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    @ 7:09! The first pilot episode of Star Trek was completed on January 22, 1965. That's 56 years, 3 months, 3 weeks, 5 days before you published this video!

    • @bigclivedotcom
      @bigclivedotcom  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      And ten days after I was born.

    • @hectorpascal
      @hectorpascal 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@bigclivedotcomI'm not really a Trekkie - I just realised I didn't know either - and of course Wikipedia knows "everything"!

  • @MrDbone75
    @MrDbone75 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Good Tuesday morning to you sir

  • @AsymptoteInverse
    @AsymptoteInverse 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    34:59 I'll always remember my first bang. I was building my first-ever boardless 110-V-powered LED light. I used too big a capacitor with no resistor to limit the inrush. One of the diodes left a very pretty-colored spot in my vision before it tripped my circuit breaker.

    • @tissuepaper9962
      @tissuepaper9962 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That's not what they meant by light emitting diode lmao.

  • @mickward2775
    @mickward2775 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Good morning clive hope you have a good day. I'm sleepy and will watch the whole video in the morning cause I'll be asleep in 5 minutes. I already know it's going to be a great video. Thanks bigclive

  • @andymouse
    @andymouse 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Back in the early 80's ETI magazine published a project complete with PCB track pattern that you etched yourself, and it was the same as this, a mains input with the Cockcroft/Walton multiplier, I built it and it worked very well, I remember getting in bother from my old dear as the wallpaper behind the thing was blackened by the charged dirt particulate leaving a 'shadow' of filth, to me it was a wonderful example of Physics in action, however to her it was a disaster !..cheers.

    • @bigclivedotcom
      @bigclivedotcom  3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That's why they tended to be unplugged and put away. Because they did their job too well.

    • @andymouse
      @andymouse 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@bigclivedotcom Yeah, I might make yours.

  • @rarrawer
    @rarrawer 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    We need to design a 360-degree lighting rig for Clive.
    Saying that he can't do it is a challenge.
    What about some LED tape attached to a flat metal ribbon-style spring with a width of maybe 2cm or 1/2in and heat-treated to have a resting state that is a cemicircle with a radius of some value between 0.5M and 3M.
    The diameta/radius would be chosen to allow comfortable access to the workspace.
    The whole arrangement would coil up into a ring for transport.
    Holding several such strips would be either generic clamps or simple weighted bases , probably just being a block of wood with a bulldog clip or similar cheap common clamp; perhaps with a slotted affixment piece made from a standard L-bracket and some folded sheetmetal.
    Power to the strips would be supplied by whatever connector is typically on-hand.
    Ideally the strips would be diffused, whether by buying a diffused light strip to start with or having a translucent diffusion layer in front of the LED strip.
    Supply would be by some broard-input-range regulator with a bunch of different type of sockets for input, so you can use any power source capable of more than five volts that is on hand.
    Basicaly it'd be like a big hula-hoop over the workbench that shines light inwards.

    • @bigclivedotcom
      @bigclivedotcom  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      That would cause a lot of glare in reflective objects.

  • @joshuarosen6242
    @joshuarosen6242 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Blimey. Electronics Today International. There's a blast from the past. It was that magazine that sparked (ho ho) my interest in electronics as a young teenager and as you can see by the fact that I'm here watching this video, it's an interest that never left me.

  • @BjornV78
    @BjornV78 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Another source for finding carbon wires, is to use inner wire from sparkplug cables. Carbon wires are there used as a resistor for surpressing EMI.

  • @jrsc01.
    @jrsc01. 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    My laptop frozen, in full screen watching this, at exactly 40:38 just after you said, "if i just hold this up to my ear", i was tryng to listen and wondered why the long pause..... i though something had gone wrong with it or you couldnt hear anything... until i relaised it was my laptop that decided to freeze and had to restart it, perfectly timed lol

    • @theskett
      @theskett 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Whereas I was just pleased that BigClive didn't zap his ear :-)