High voltage DC (your module produces DC) pulls or repels small light weight objects. You can make continuous high voltage DC electricity or maker high voltage momentary DC static electricity.
A transformer produces AC which pulls and repels small light weight objects back and forth too quickly so that they do not move and it can be at a high voltage to make an arc which can burn through something.
A higher voltage makes the effects (more distance and more pull) stronger. If you connect two of your modules in series then the voltage will be doubled and the effects will be a little stronger.
You make a simple capacitor by sticking two Al foils on two sides of a plastic insulator.
Connect the capacitor to the two sides of the generator. To increase the distance by a factor of 5, you need to increase the voltage by a factor of 25. But there are ways to reduce this voltage.
Now disconnect the charging and remove one of the Al foils. The plastic plate is now charged with static electricity of high voltage.
There are many ways to make static electricity- try Wimshurst machine: https://www.amazon.com/LC2310-Wimshurst-Electrostatic-Generator/dp/B000RZO8RO?tag=duckduckgo-d-20
Please pay respect to electricity. It IS dangerous.
- - - Updated - - -
When you connect the two electrodes to two Al foils separated by a plastic sheet (thick enough to withstand the voltage) the two foils get charged with equal and opposite voltages. The charges induce opposite charges in the dielectric and when you pull off one of the Al foils, the charge on the dielectric stays. (take care not to touch the Al foil when you pull it off; use a plastic tool). This can pull a small sheet of paper and you can check the potential with a gold leaf electroscope: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroscope.
If one of the electrode is made of fine wires like a brush, then lots of electrons will be released by corona discharge. This is the basic principle of the negative ion generator.
Wikipedia says that US Dept of Agriculture demos Samonella bacteria being killed with ionized air.
I think your high voltage DC module has positive and negative output wires. If you ground the positive wire then the negative wire releases negative ions into the air. Plants might flourish or be killed by ions in the air or if the entire plant has a charge.
The high voltage will destroy a multimeter. How do you know which output wire is positive and negative? The color of the wire?
I guess from the diagram that both the white wires are output and the output is isolated from the input circuit. If you put the two white wires very close (1 mm - 2mm) you can observe sparks. Do not use the black one as the return path for the white wire. I guess the output is AC (there may be a built in diode or voltage doubler circuit) but I may be wrong. You can make a very simple electroscope to study the AC/DC nature of the output or simply set up a 1000:1 voltage divider circuit.
The first post of this thread gives an ebay link to this Air Ionizer Negative Ion Generator. If its output wires produced AC then it would not generate ions, instead it would neutralize ions and it would not cause objects to be pulled and repelled, but it could still produce an arc between its close wires. Therefore I think its output is high voltage DC but we do not know which wire is positive and which wire is negative.
A neon bulb held close might show its glowing post nearest the negative wire.
Why are you "contacting" wires together that might destroy the thing? The wires are never supposed to contact. There is probably some capacitance between the 12VDC wires and the white high voltage wires which causes a ion field between the DC and high voltage wires.
I found a 400kV module on ebay:
1) It uses A LOT of battery current and gets so hot that it must be turned off to cool after operating for 1 minute.
2) It is destroyed if it is operated with no load where the load is an arc I guess.
3) Its output might be AC, not DC.
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?