Hand Cranked 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.