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.
@@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.
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.
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!!!
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.
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.
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 ;-)
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!
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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?
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.
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)
@@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.
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.
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 ^_^
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.
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.
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.
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.
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. 😋
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" :-)
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
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.
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.
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.
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 ;-)
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.
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.
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.
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
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 :)
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.
@ 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!
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.
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.
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."
96% tin 4% copper solder from rapid works fine. We used to use it at my work palce (offshore company) and it survives down to 4000m depth in the ocean. Anything with silver in is horrible to work with, and you end up burning out solder tips constantly because it needs such high heat. The tin based stuff can grow forks on a PCB over time (rare), but if soldered properly and plenty of flux is used, it doesn't do this (typically enough flux inside the solder). It's closest thing to lead you can get without lead being in it.
I like the rant though... and I totally agree with you, leaded solder flows soooo much better than lead free stuff, it's really difficult whenever I try to get components off a lead-free board. Also, bit of a coincidence, I took apart two sealed lead acid AGM batteries to get the lead, got 1.258 kG of fairly pure lead(could get a bit more, but I melted stuff improperly and haven't processed all the lead oxide plates yet) Also, that cable tie as a strain relief, at least to me, is genius. Something I would've never thought of, I would've drilled a hole in the case and taken a strain relief from another appliance. Yesterday, actually, I was testing a power supply made of two microwave oven transformers and 4 microwave oven capacitors. When I tried to arc it, the plasma from the arc spread over to the capacitors and cause them to short circuit over the air making such a loud bang I couldn't hear for about 30 seconds, my mom doesn't want me using it anymore. Nice build.
@@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...
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.
When we got an ioniser for the aircon where i worked, it came with a small circuit board with a neon and resistor to detect if the ioniser was working. The ioniser was mounted behind the grille in a conference room.
@@bigclivedotcom This was an industrial unit, we just followed the insructions, the grille was more like louvre slats You could definitely tell the difference in air quality.
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).
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.
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.
Enjoyed the build Clive! An idea - you could make the diode former taper downards, so that when you bend the diode leg around it, it bends a bit more than 180 degrees. That way, when you let go of the diode legs and they spring back a bit, they would be perfectly parallel.
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 😉
clive, if you want good lighting on your bench, find a 55" TV that someone threw their wii remote through online, and hotwire the LED backlight to come on when the display is plugged in, and remove the LCD active matrix. The LCD driver board too. Then, mount that bad boi facing down over your desk, and it'll be pretty much perfect for shooting videos, and also seeing what you're doing.
"I've closed the shop temporarily" - Nooooo! I'd happily buy a couple of these kits, if only for useful soldering practice. A very neat little project! I imagine there'd be quite the market for amateur project kits and that sort of thing, especially as there are essentially zero proper electronics shops these days.
Clive Sinclair's team actually used a ULA (uncommitted logic array) which is more akin to an ASIC than an FPGA. It's almost like a huge GAL, they have a pattern you start with, you link stuff up to configure it how you want, and then they can make them more cheaply than doing a full custom chip because only the last manufacturing step varies between each customer. Those aren't really popular anymore because FPGAs have come so far down in price.
Clive, when ordering the pcb's, layout 2 of them side by side, extend the dividing border line line and add text to V Score it. That way you can get 2 boards onto the 100 x 100 size, do not select any panel options when ordering :) Edit, due to the radius on the corner these cannot be done by V groove as the size of the cutter is an issue, instead lay out the 2 boards with a 2mm gap and draw in some (2) tabs and stamp holes to join them.
I darkly remember a colleague tried something similar time ago and the PCB manufacturer noticed that there was no connection between the PCBs and they were treated as panels or something... At least the trick did not work as planned
Hi, Clive! This negative ion thing is good when we living in fresh air, which is 20% oxygen and 70% nitrogen. When we use it in the close environment with CO2 and our "natural aromas" than it is loosing sense. I think, best is to make O2 generator for night time. Small electrolyzer which separate H and O2 and with 10W of consumption with HiVoltage distilled water separation can be wiser choice. P.S. I try all this in my car, in the living room too, but it is not needed. We only open a little bit a window at night and fresh air is coming to us... :)
The other elements created by tiny levels of corona discharge during ionisation are similar to those created in natural air outdoors. No need for purified oxygen except for medical applications.
@@bigclivedotcom All information about negative ionization and all "benefits" is based on Russian sources and Chinese goodies. I think the fair test can be like that. We take inside room with nasty smells and take air analyzer and this type of "fresh air" :) maker. Take time and "switch ON". And after 5 hours? we go in and ...? :) If we feel fresh air breeze and everything is "like spring flowers" we accept device! :) If not, we understand - this is BS. :)
ETI, ( I have the whole collection) wow a local production here back in the 70's and 80's was good back then we had EA , ETI, AEM and Silicon chip which still is in publication, all Aussie publications.
ETI was great for a teenager in the 70's! I built their subwoofer design (about '76 I recall) and various amps and tone controls etc., to feed my budding hi-fi habit! Practical Electronics still publishes many Silicon Chip designs here in the UK - some pretty nifty projects!
You could potentially make a device to remove the static from records (LP's etc), which is a huge issue. The devices on the market are quite expensive and can be improved.
Honestly had no static problem when I cleaned them with a microfiber rag moistened with a bit of isopropyl alcohol. I always use 70% or more depending on the work.
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.
The posts on that case look like good candidates for heat-set nut inserts. Although they look pretty small, so you'd probably have to go for something tiny like m2.5 or m2. For the person asking about the blinkin' LED Supercomputer, I'm currently designing one to fit one of the deep frames that Ikea sells (the 25 x 25 cm one), which is also modular so that it fits under a certain manufacturer's cheaper 10 x 10 cm prototype size limit. It'll be a 3 x 3 board design, so you'll just need to order 10 and have one spare. I'm debating whether to go with castillated holes (half holes) at the edges to join the boards together and pass the power between them, or stick with a single sided board so you don't have the shiny resistor pads on the top, and just use wire links. I'm still in the design phase and while I wait for the frame to arrive, then I'll need to get the prototype boards made before I publish the design, so it'll likely be a number of weeks before the gurr burrs are published.
Heard the mountain breeze ioniser me tioned the other day, again (that thing never really goes away), but in a video about clean energy production. Some chap is trialling a steady state wind generator using a reverse of the ioniser if you like. I can't describe it, seems super low power atm but he seemed to think there was something in it. Lots of very interesting solid state wind generators in development. The ones that looked like a dustbin scare me - imagime a little squirrel going in and the turning to red mist!
A lot of good research into ions etc in relation to atmospheric pressure / desert wind ( forgot the name of the specific one) and depression also with regard to breathing problems . Done in Israel in the sixties - seventies . Worth tracking down ( don't have refs🤔)
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.
I don’t know what that thing is, but it’s the best one I’ve ever seen.
I believe it's an ear wax remover of sorts or perhaps space detector @40:30 😜
It's an electronic box.
@@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.
@@DenkyManner It's a Blue Box of Doom! 😬
Better yet. If Clive wired it incorrectly it could be a new drinking game for the next meeting of minds video.
I have brought more lead into the environment in the few years i fished as a kid than in all my years of soldering
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.
@@Joe-Dead totally agree
You use a car battery for fishing? Cool!
@@SimonStuff2000 don't you?
@@SimonStuff2000 give it a try its fast and easy
That 3d printed diode former is very neat.
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You have the same name as me :D
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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 🙂.
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I see a tiny circuit board, and a 41 minute video. It must be story time :-)
Those mad soldering skills though. There is a man that doesn't need a wobbly helping hand from Maplins.
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!!!
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.
It's quite a contrast to the butchery which could describe my soldering technique.
It's just good technique, if you don't move it the solder wire sticks
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.
Perhaps the sneaky chameleons were not stolen, but just doing their thing really well.
Ironic that you had to commit fraud to stop the authorities from stealing from you.
Snakez Rule !
Customs are scummy thieves. All they do is steal money and packages from people.
There's something so satisfying about watching someone re-flow and straightening up the components! =)
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 ;-)
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!
I always enjoy a good kit build. The stories and information from commentary is always quite enlightening.
that diode forming jig is one of the things people will find in 1000 years and never figure out what it was for.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
If it's a fridge ozone generator then it does kill surface bacteria on food.
@@bigclivedotcom It is designed and sold to be used in the refrigerator. Thanks for the ♥
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.
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.
22:30 - 23:00 Well founded concept for a rant in my opinion.
42 minutes of soldering 👨🏻🏭 pleasure with questions!!! Bravo 👏🏻 Big Clive!!!
Usual content on TH-cam that is more than 40mins long: skip to next.
Clive's 40min video: enjoyed from start to end.
We're not scared of your face. You have a very kind face 😊
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!
You are such a joy to listen to Clive, thank you 🙏
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?
Still is. Britain in particular is full of silent inventors, with many of the technical breakthroughs never being made public.
Yes, definitely Britain, followed by New Zealand, then Australia, historically.
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.
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)
@@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.
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.
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 ^_^
Special effects so convincing: the next step is to show reality, but 'damage' it ever so slightly that you think it is fake.
I love how easy you can contort your fingers to solder
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.
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.
I do so enjoy watching you build stuff, Clive...True artistry!
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.
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.
Watching you solder that board is very satisfying.
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. 😋
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" :-)
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
It's very interesting to hear what makes fresh air fresh.
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.
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.
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.
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 ;-)
Thank you kindly for the PCB file! This looks quite satisfying to build.
I was thinking on making an Open Source Electrostatic Precipitator sometime, and this will definitely come in handy!
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.
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.
A fancy 2GHz scope I hired had Windows either XP or 7 lol!
Living in Australia one of my favourite things to make are Mossie Zappers
Do you have a diagram/fave ali supplier? I'm bored in Thailand and would find this useful and fun :)
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.
Big Clive is the Bob Ross of Electronics...
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
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 :)
So I have just watched this for 42 minutes and I still have no idea what it is but it looks cool.
Great build, love the circuit boards and the translucent case is perfect for this
Very interesting to see something built from start to finish
nada mejor que verte trabajar eres un gran maestro. saludos
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.
A new layer of glass is a good idea. I wonder if it would work with picture frame glass.
Every body smiles at explosions! Irresistible!
@ 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!
And ten days after I was born.
@@bigclivedotcomI'm not really a Trekkie - I just realised I didn't know either - and of course Wikipedia knows "everything"!
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.
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.
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."
96% tin 4% copper solder from rapid works fine. We used to use it at my work palce (offshore company) and it survives down to 4000m depth in the ocean.
Anything with silver in is horrible to work with, and you end up burning out solder tips constantly because it needs such high heat. The tin based stuff can grow forks on a PCB over time (rare), but if soldered properly and plenty of flux is used, it doesn't do this (typically enough flux inside the solder).
It's closest thing to lead you can get without lead being in it.
I like the attachment you have in the thumbnail. Looks very mysterious.
It's in the description.
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+
I like the rant though... and I totally agree with you, leaded solder flows soooo much better than lead free stuff, it's really difficult whenever I try to get components off a lead-free board. Also, bit of a coincidence, I took apart two sealed lead acid AGM batteries to get the lead, got 1.258 kG of fairly pure lead(could get a bit more, but I melted stuff improperly and haven't processed all the lead oxide plates yet) Also, that cable tie as a strain relief, at least to me, is genius. Something I would've never thought of, I would've drilled a hole in the case and taken a strain relief from another appliance. Yesterday, actually, I was testing a power supply made of two microwave oven transformers and 4 microwave oven capacitors. When I tried to arc it, the plasma from the arc spread over to the capacitors and cause them to short circuit over the air making such a loud bang I couldn't hear for about 30 seconds, my mom doesn't want me using it anymore. Nice build.
Be extremely careful with microwave transformers. They have caused a lot of fatalities in recent years.
@@bigclivedotcom yeah I know, I recently started using a chicken stick made of bamboo. I know they can supply like half an amp if I make a mistake....
Adding another vote for you to publish your 3D printed, parts bending jigs, they look very handy.
They're like $2 on ebay
@@phonotical Or around 20 cents to print
@@calvaryapologetics minus the cost of a printer, filament and electricity
Design it yourself you lazy pig
@@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...
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.
That's why they tended to be unplugged and put away. Because they did their job too well.
@@bigclivedotcom Yeah, I might make yours.
When we got an ioniser for the aircon where i worked, it came with a small circuit board with a neon and resistor to detect if the ioniser was working.
The ioniser was mounted behind the grille in a conference room.
Mounting it behind a grille often reduces the effectiveness. I prefer wide open needles or carbon fibre tufts.
@@bigclivedotcom This was an industrial unit, we just followed the insructions, the grille was more like louvre slats
You could definitely tell the difference in air quality.
I'd like to see more videos like this it's very nice and it looks like it can be repeated.
Nice to see another build Clive 👍 thanks.
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).
I was watching the fur attached to the end of the wire attract to the probe at 37:52. Nice build.
Big Clive's bear milk! Sounds like a pretty good name for a men's "performance" drink!
Yeah, changed my mind, not actually gonna touch on this.... ;P
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.
That's not what they meant by light emitting diode lmao.
Nice soldering and a cool Ionizer.
Another wonderful project! Thanks!
Loving your "chopstick" soldering technique Clive :)
Interesting diffuser you have in the thumbnail! Was hoping to see it in the video!
It was built afterwards from a piece of PCB material. But a carbon fiber emitter performs much better.
All we need now is to turn it into a form of ion propulsion, even Scotty is impressed at such technology... :D
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.
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.
In one episode of Lost In Space Robbie the Robot appears and has a fight (!) with the Lost in Space robot...
Enjoyed the build Clive! An idea - you could make the diode former taper downards, so that when you bend the diode leg around it, it bends a bit more than 180 degrees. That way, when you let go of the diode legs and they spring back a bit, they would be perfectly parallel.
The slight spring is useful for gripping in the PCB holes.
@@bigclivedotcom Ooh, clever. Didn't realize that.
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 😉
love to see a colab between big clive and technology connections
clive, if you want good lighting on your bench, find a 55" TV that someone threw their wii remote through online, and hotwire the LED backlight to come on when the display is plugged in, and remove the LCD active matrix. The LCD driver board too.
Then, mount that bad boi facing down over your desk, and it'll be pretty much perfect for shooting videos, and also seeing what you're doing.
"I've closed the shop temporarily" - Nooooo!
I'd happily buy a couple of these kits, if only for useful soldering practice. A very neat little project!
I imagine there'd be quite the market for amateur project kits and that sort of thing, especially as there are essentially zero proper electronics shops these days.
I don't sell these as a kit. But the files are linked to in the description.
Clive Sinclair's team actually used a ULA (uncommitted logic array) which is more akin to an ASIC than an FPGA. It's almost like a huge GAL, they have a pattern you start with, you link stuff up to configure it how you want, and then they can make them more cheaply than doing a full custom chip because only the last manufacturing step varies between each customer. Those aren't really popular anymore because FPGAs have come so far down in price.
Very cool. Thank you Clive
Thanks, Clive!
Clive, when ordering the pcb's, layout 2 of them side by side, extend the dividing border line line and add text to V Score it. That way you can get 2 boards onto the 100 x 100 size, do not select any panel options when ordering :)
Edit, due to the radius on the corner these cannot be done by V groove as the size of the cutter is an issue, instead lay out the 2 boards with a 2mm gap and draw in some (2) tabs and stamp holes to join them.
I darkly remember a colleague tried something similar time ago and the PCB manufacturer noticed that there was no connection between the PCBs and they were treated as panels or something...
At least the trick did not work as planned
Cable tie cable clamp is an excellent idea
What a nice clean design.
Hi, Clive! This negative ion thing is good when we living in fresh air, which is 20% oxygen and 70% nitrogen. When we use it in the close environment with CO2 and our "natural aromas" than it is loosing sense. I think, best is to make O2 generator for night time. Small electrolyzer which separate H and O2 and with 10W of consumption with HiVoltage distilled water separation can be wiser choice. P.S. I try all this in my car, in the living room too, but it is not needed. We only open a little bit a window at night and fresh air is coming to us... :)
The other elements created by tiny levels of corona discharge during ionisation are similar to those created in natural air outdoors. No need for purified oxygen except for medical applications.
@@bigclivedotcom All information about negative ionization and all "benefits" is based on Russian sources and Chinese goodies. I think the fair test can be like that. We take inside room with nasty smells and take air analyzer and this type of "fresh air" :) maker. Take time and "switch ON". And after 5 hours? we go in and ...? :) If we feel fresh air breeze and everything is "like spring flowers" we accept device! :) If not, we understand - this is BS. :)
ETI, ( I have the whole collection) wow a local production here back in the 70's and 80's was good back then we had EA , ETI, AEM and Silicon chip which still is in publication, all Aussie publications.
ETI was great for a teenager in the 70's! I built their subwoofer design (about '76 I recall) and various amps and tone controls etc., to feed my budding hi-fi habit! Practical Electronics still publishes many Silicon Chip designs here in the UK - some pretty nifty projects!
@@cornwallonline I have a few PE issues, ETI was great due to its extended projects which out did most other publications of the time.
WOW !!
You could potentially make a device to remove the static from records (LP's etc), which is a huge issue. The devices on the market are quite expensive and can be improved.
Honestly had no static problem when I cleaned them with a microfiber rag moistened with a bit of isopropyl alcohol. I always use 70% or more depending on the work.
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.
That would cause a lot of glare in reflective objects.
I kind of like your rants. Don’t suppress them!
The posts on that case look like good candidates for heat-set nut inserts. Although they look pretty small, so you'd probably have to go for something tiny like m2.5 or m2.
For the person asking about the blinkin' LED Supercomputer, I'm currently designing one to fit one of the deep frames that Ikea sells (the 25 x 25 cm one), which is also modular so that it fits under a certain manufacturer's cheaper 10 x 10 cm prototype size limit. It'll be a 3 x 3 board design, so you'll just need to order 10 and have one spare. I'm debating whether to go with castillated holes (half holes) at the edges to join the boards together and pass the power between them, or stick with a single sided board so you don't have the shiny resistor pads on the top, and just use wire links. I'm still in the design phase and while I wait for the frame to arrive, then I'll need to get the prototype boards made before I publish the design, so it'll likely be a number of weeks before the gurr burrs are published.
Heard the mountain breeze ioniser me tioned the other day, again (that thing never really goes away), but in a video about clean energy production. Some chap is trialling a steady state wind generator using a reverse of the ioniser if you like. I can't describe it, seems super low power atm but he seemed to think there was something in it. Lots of very interesting solid state wind generators in development. The ones that looked like a dustbin scare me - imagime a little squirrel going in and the turning to red mist!
A lot of good research into ions etc in relation to atmospheric pressure / desert wind ( forgot the name of the specific one) and depression also with regard to breathing problems . Done in Israel in the sixties - seventies . Worth tracking down ( don't have refs🤔)
I built it myself, back in the day. It was almost certainly an ETI project.