Might as well be magic !? Who ever conceived of these? On 8/19/14, William "Chops" Westfield wrote: >> there are subtleties to flow rate > > I shouldn't have been so vague. Apparently you want a stream of water th= at > breaks into drops right about the center of the collars that the water fa= lls > through. I think you need a conductive path back to the common tank. > > It's an "induction" or "influence" machine (as opposed to friction machin= es > like a van de Graaff); these come in a lot of different variations (there > are a bunch in the Moore book, and this variety includes the Whimshurst..= ..) > I wanna make some variations out of those blank CDs you get with packs of > CDR disks... Or maybe PCBs. (When you contemplate such devices, the per= -area > price of PCBs gets annoying...) > > BillW > > > -- > http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > --=20 Tobias Gogolin Tel. D1 (49) 0151 5187 5210 Tel. D2 (49) 0152 0839 5060 skype: moontogo messenger: usertogo@hotmail.com You develop Sustainable Ranch Technology at http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/SURA-TECH an Open Source Electric Motor/Alternator at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Performance_Axial_Flux and an Open Source Motor Controller at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GoBox --=20 http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .