How a Water-cooled Spark Gap Works!
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- Learn everything about the "water-cooled spark gap" and how to build one yourself.
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Respect my Authoritay 😂 great video, well done
THANK YOU!! Sharing, I wish I were younger ha ha This looks like fun and Creating and Moving Large Stone is my interest in regards to architecture.
Built a water cooled extreme energy triggered spark gap before, it used DI water with both electrodes submerged. The electrodes had tin on the buisness end but the rest was tin plated copper. The trigger electrode was a loop of platinum wire just in front of the cathode with the low side connected to both electrodes through a couple 500pf 35kv doorknob capacitors. The trigger voltage was about 20kv and the gap could hold off about 50kv. It solved the issues with heat noise and UV all in one go. It was used for a copper bromide laser until i got a proper hydrogen thyratron❤
Use silver - it's the best conductor of heat and has a higher melting point than copper, it's still cheap at 28$oz.
This is cool stuff! But the dramatic background music just inter fears with your narrative. I’d suggest leaving it out and just giving us good narration and explanation of the components and how they work together. Cheers!
Dude.. do this in a safety cage (Faraday) please..
I WANT MY SPARKGAP BUT IT'S IS NO AVAILABLE IN YOUR WEBSITE. PLEASE! MAKE MORE
There is an ES "Experimenters Series" WCSG in my website's Science Store for $29 (I think that also includes shipping) and some historical, nice original Kickstarter versions - however I am in the process of making more SGL's and other items so check back in about a week - I'm also about to launch a new Kickstarter campaign where you can get a spark gap and also a world-first tesla coil charge collector! =)
Cool. Sounds like we made the same thing until one looks at the design of it lol I had mine made about 18 months ago with a vacuumed sparkgap with a glass tube of water going down the center of it. I called it the plasma water heater, but when I was getting it made, I was calling it a water sparkgap. Essentially, they are the same thing.
That sounds neat, I would love to see it. Why not upload a video to your channel?
Also this system does not work under vacuum, as it requires some air cooling / thermal release of the positive electrode =)
@MadPlasmatist I got it on another platform. I can't say it becuase then youtube will delete my comment. There's a reason for it to be in a vacuum sealed container. Your just using a small amount of water to keep your spark cool, I'm using it to heat water. Plus I could add more or less gas. And I still have a source of light. Still cool what you're doing though 😎
@@freedomer342 That seems really neat I would like to see it, you should put some videos on TH-cam so we can all enjoy!
Why is this useful? You dont give any information on why you think this is so useful or hints to how its any better than any other gaps, you need to remember that spark gap technology is ancient in fact the pioneers used these Tesla, Rhumkorff, and contemporarys of his time, later better higher power gaps were needed so they looked into all methods including water immersed electrodes but subsequently found mercury to be a better option.. later came rotary gaps air cooled then quenching became common from faster switching speeds for years synchronous rotary gaps were the standard for high power high frequency and the mercury interrupter for low powered low frequency and mercury arc rectifier octopus and excitron for high power low frequency, these were later replaced in a true vaccum tube take over as thyratron ignitron and other high powered switches became available, the ignitron can switch upto 20kV in the 10s of kA/us range, there were the top scientific names working on spark gaps 100 years ago, please if you really believe you have something here then say what it is, if its valid it will stand up to scrutiny, at the moment you are just showing what appears to be a low powered spark gap with the cathode submerged in water to keep it cool which of course is necessary as the cathode sustains ion bombardment and this thin electrode would melt without cooling even at this low power, i may be missing the point here but without any explanation i only have my observation to go on. please if you think you have something back it up, with real data and numbers, without these all you have is smoke and mirrors mate ...
If you asked Heinrich Hertz why his magnetic radiation tests were so important at the time, he as well would not have had all or any of the answers as it is new technology, however, from what I've observed in the past, WCSG's are the future of mankind. Stay tuned!
@@MadPlasmatist yes but Hertz actually decovered something albeit he wasn't quite sure exactly what at first, spark gaps of all types are not a new discovery and you talk about my ignorance? You haven't even looked at my channel and what sort of understanding I have on this,
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@@T2D.SteveArcs I never said you were ignorant, however you should easily understand then that there is a difference between amperage and voltage being applied through a spark gap. The WCSG can handle a lot of amperage without melting, giving a fluid plasma discharge which is quite easy to implement with very basic items. It is also true radiant energy and I will explain all of this in an upcoming video. We should really meet up or chat, you do impressive work and I could really use your help. I've done ALL of this by my little self =)
@@T2D.SteveArcs It's got a commercial use and has been used for like 20 years.
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yes..... Here is the commercial use for it. The metal being cut is the other side or electrode. th-cam.com/users/results?search_query=edm+Cutting+
This would not work on me big Tesla Coil. At 6Kw your WCSP would vaporize.
As stated 'This is a small-scale WCSG', got something that might work for ya very soon, stay tuned!
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Voice is too low, music is too high. You don’t actually say what you want us to learn
That's a pretty mean set-up you've got there.