Hand Crank Van de Graaff Generator Plans
Produce luminous sparks,
make the hair raising experiment and many others
amazing high voltage demonstrations: build your own Van
de Graaff Electrostatic Generator with these easy to
follow downloadable plans.
The Van de Graaff
Generator is an Electrostatic Friction Machine where
mechanical energy is converted in electric potential
energy: the charges are removed from a low potential -
the Ground - and are "pumped" up to a charge
accumulator - the metallic sphere on the top of the
machine, the charge accumulated with the sphere
generates a high electrical potential related to the
Ground.
The charges are generated by friction of an insulation
belt with the rollers and are also transported from the
lower part of the machine up to the upper sphere by
this belt.
