Building A Wirelessly Powered Corona Motor (DIY)

Corona motors are an exotic wireless form of motor, which use static charges to create rotational motion. After relentless heat from Plasma Channel viewers, I've caved in. Built two, plan to give one away!
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[@PlasmaChannel]

Thanks for watching! The giveaway will conclude on November 10th, 2021, where the winner will be informed either through comment response, instagram response, or direct email.

[@jasonlewis8191]

Can you make two rotors beside each other to double the power

[@nordenconrad]

Make a QEG generator..its all over the internet... And give some reviews please

[@JasonJoplin]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y3rVpZSrbpaUbZo here is the link to my Warp Drive project where I will incorporate the corona motor and use the output shaft as a rotary spark gap!

[@jvon3885]

It's crazy just how connected the aeither is. I am building a design just like this. I guess I will change the operation and enter it into your contest. I will say that ever since I built your Tesla Coil for my step sons science fair (which was absolutely un-fair in the judging portion. They basically said it was too advanced for his grade and that he couldn't have built it alone. But he did all except the soldering and circuit installation) I've been going strong and now have an entire electronics lab.

[@electronresonator8882]

have you figure it out why Nikola Tesla's tower has to be that tall?

[@integza]

This video is gonna get a lot of free energy comments The motor is pretty awesome !

[@PlasmaChannel]

I can hear it now, "freeeeeeee energyyyyy!"

[@msrobotricx1511]

Ha ha ha its funny 😉

[@afiefsholichuddin]

There is no free energy - Mehdi Electroboom

[@jetboard]

Use it for your rocket engine :-)

[@riks7256]

high voltage tomato crusher?

[@DeuxisWasTaken]

It's amazing how the first thing powered by atmospheric electricity was a storm warning bell made by Franklin in the early 1750s and it still seems like magic now in 2021.

[@tteeke]

3:29 "Sloppy Suzie?" C'mon Jay.. Really good video and explanation! Excellent, clean (for sensitive ears 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 🙋‍♂) and encouraging demonstration of the build too. Thank you!

[@JimmyM1]

It's such a breath of fresh air to see something worth while watching on the internet.

[@TimolaTesla]

Wow. Really beautiful corona motor. I like how you always make a museum quality of your machines.

[@PlasmaChannel]

Thanks Timontej! Really appreciate your support, and i'm debating doing an AMA for my patreons soon, live on KZbin. Let me know your thoughts on it.

[@terryterry1655]

Nikola Tesla dropped by.. How cool is that

[@daleanderson1727]

Just between us, I am fan-boy gad that I found your channel. Demonstrations and experiments like this remind me of my childhood. When I was a young nipper growing up on a farm in outback nowhere'sville Australia, there wasn't much to do. I became fascinated by magicians (because I watched the Tony Curtis HOudini movie). I was thrilled by their tricks. UNTIL.... I was rubbing a plastic pen in my hair to use the static electricity to make tiny bits of paper jump. Inspired, I thought why not try tiny little bits of concrete. Guess what, I could make those dance and jump too. I instantly forgot about magic shows because this was REAL MAGIC. That's what you just showed us here. So thank you, and keep it up.

[@solarstoned]

🧲👌

[@wictorious3925]

The only guy i know that has a fetish for acrylic. And i love it!

[@jamesforler6897]

Your projects are awesome but I keep watching for the humor. “What if you don’t have acrylic” fetal position in chair lol cracked me up. Thanks for the awesome videos!

[@LabCoatz_Science]

Great build, I'm impressed how much torque that motor can generate! Makes me curious: what if you put magnets on the rotating shaft and used it as a crude dynamo...would it work, or would the eddy currents cause too much resistance in the motor for it to be efficient?

[@PlasmaChannel]

That’s a solid suggestion. The torque isn’t all that high, but, it was basically geared “down”. That being said, could totally attach small magnets to it and make a dyno! Thanks for the next viddy idea.

[@msrobotricx1511]

Yeah 👍

[@theplasmaprince8651]

@@PlasmaChannel NoOoOo Zach you spoiled my science fair project hahaha

[@LabCoatz_Science]

@@PlasmaChannel Glad I could share, keep the great content coming!

[@Scrogan]

Eddy currents wouldn’t be significant sources of loss if you used insulating magnetic cores like ferrite or air. The actual resisting torque caused by the dynamo would be a function of the current output. So if you wire it up with a low q-current switching or linear regulator to power some low-current CMOS IC or MCU, it would probably be sufficient for a demo. Another source of torque is that from cogging. Once the rotor is up to speed the cogging bumps are no longer an issue, but the motor would have troubles starting and may never get enough rotational kinetic energy to overpower them. So I’d suggest either using a flywheel and connecting the generator after it’s spun up (or leave it connected and start it by hand), or using a generator with minimal cogging. Air-core would be one way of doing this, so would having very indivisible pole and slot numbers.

[@beepbeepgamer1305]

i used to watch all sorts of these fun experiments done by you guys when i was a kid and they really helped me out in my physics electronics class now. Thanks you everyone 😁

[@kL07_]

Same!

[@martinbisschoff988]

Jay, it is you type of 'humans' that will eventually break the current tyranny of supply....and PAY. You have my respect.

[@joeytheetge9268]

Your acrilic portfolio is so impressive. You're an artist.

[@exploringgames948]

This was pretty neat, always fun learning new things!🙏

[@MrMakulit1959]

That is so cool. Thanks for sharing. I built a model a long time ago that used static to swing an arm against the torque of the suspending thread. It would discharge when the arm touched the supporting arch. Powered by my pocket comb ... i became a mobile mobile back when mobiles were a thing. Yes, a long time ago. Static from scuffing across the carpet worked too.

[@vargman4636]

I love when he said "round the corners" and put a chamfer on them. Nice!

[@craigjohnson6349]

Fantastic, maybe someday we could use this on a larger scale.

[@gowdsake7103]

Why ?

[@nzuckman]

The global electric circuit has a total power comparable to 1 coal power plant, so it's kind of a drop in the bucket in terms of global energy consumption, though we could still get a lot of utility from it with low-power devices. I also recently learned about electroculture - *supposedly* you can just stick a long wire in the ground and it helps plants grow by using the atmospheric electric circuit to do... well I'm not 100% sure what it does, but *maybe* it helps nutrients move through the soil, promotes photosynthesis, repels pests, and attracts pollinators? I haven't seen proof of these claims, but they seem plausible enough to be worth testing! :)

[@MrAnderson4509]

It's really cool that you decide to build one of these I wanted to build on for 30 years, and that's pretty sad. There are other possibilities as well for gathering the static and putting it to work, perhaps you've already explored those, I have wanted to do those for over for over 40 years, thanks for working out the fine details so that people can produce demonstrators.

[@Streamcatcher]

It is said that the Utron is a very good gatherer of static to even charge itself with it.

[@idiotburns]

A complete build on this would be cool for a fan

[@eoclimax]

You started feeding your great knowledge with world, I'm already on that list. Thanks!!

[@PetCactusA_HarmlessLittlePrick]

For the sequel you could try to power this via an earth ground battery as used for the telegraph.

[@hamfambam4020]

Great experiment as always, awesome finish and astethics also as always. I'd love to make it for my students, or have your spare one, either way.

[@bakerbear73]

That would be a cool science experiment for several points

[@drumstick-marblebag]

Wow! Please break all bones of Oil industry by making a car using your concept shown here.

[@kugelblitz640]

amazing always learns something new from you

[@Slowly_Going_Mad]

As always this is a beautiful build. I'm curious if it could work as a generator after some minor modifications (similar to Wimhurst machine.)

[@l.p.bilham9852]

Right On! Someone who is paying attention to EVERYTHING and nothing at all at the same time! Perfect! TRUTH! I wonder if he knows about Ken Wheeler? Hold on! Quite a ride and the BEST one of your LIFE! Thank you!

[@kayotecute]

I admire your work and the way you present it, thanks

[@faghihimohammad]

very nice design! Maybe the motor overall power can be increased by adding some polarity switching to the fins, when a part of rotor is repelled by first negative fin , it is attracted to the next fin with positive polarity, now if exactly at the time that it passes the center of second fin, that fin change from positive to negative, the overall acceleration can be increased, similar to what is used in magnetic rail guns

[@netroy]

That's really cool. Do know how efficient a motor like this could be?

[@jayh9529]

Tesla tech

[@marianbuduroi6463]

if you want to make a fan out of it, yes is very eficient

[@v4skunk739]

@@jayh9529 Nope. Tesla invented a turbine/pump/motor combo though.

[@Magneticitist]

With a more complex design over 90%

[@dennismacwilliams196]

Thanks for the build video, and the parts list... Very cool of you

[@lukassyrovy9081]

amazing build, incredible how well made it is

[@Kapalek84]

It would be very interesting to see future improved versions of this model. There is many possible tests and improvements. For dyno version You can get a HV coil from a microwave oven (it is a coil that is part of dish rotating round servo motor). That coil has very thin wire and might work for the dyno version very well :) best regards

[@444455555shock]

lmao you wished him best regards as if he already died from trying to do thatXD

[@Kapalek84]

@@444455555shock well that coil has a high resistance so I would not think there could be any lethal discharges from it. XD

[@444455555shock]

Fair enough lhh just funny how you phrased it

[@NiveusLuxLucis]

When we spin up a electric motor we seem to waste the magnetic field portion of it, it sits there moving our part but we are not utilising it more than that. This is where the magic starts to happen, tapping into this field is part of the secret sauce but obviously creating the CORRECT field in the first place will net greater results.

[@marcominelli332]

Very impressed how efficient this motor is without wirings , wish I could have your skills to build one. Keep on making such a great content.👍👍

[@eco-defensesociety3790]

Fascinating, the direction Nikola Tesla was exploring during his Colorado Springs Experiments. Well done!

[@physhishek3162]

When you want to buy a new motor but you're a little short of budget

[@zenofken333]

Really interesting, love your videos and what you're doing. Keep up the work

[@nataliaosborne1242]

Wow! That's really Awesome! Thank you very much for sharing it 🙏👍

[@RobsShop-yy9ox]

I've thought about a system that uses thermal vacuum pumps to passively bring water to the roof, through a ram pump, then the runoff water would meet back up with the now pressurised air through an inlet to a tesla turbine that charges batteries. All water can be in a closed system and it would be completely passive with little maintenance and some fine tuning. Just a thought. Also can I haz motor? 🙏😁

[@vylbird8014]

I thought about similar things as well - you can harness power from natural fluctuations in temperature or atmospheric pressure, though the energy available is tiny. There are a number of mechanical clocks that run off of this mechanism though. Once cutting-edge technology, now just novelties.

[@ziamazumder6761]

Wow, first time in 23 second 😎

[@chrisbrooks89]

I recently discovered magnetic bearings and a while back magnetic motors. KZbin is amazing.

[@jamesfoxworth2012]

All I can say is WOW just WOW.

[@Purple431]

Can you make a power supply for a plasma globe? Cuz i want to build one too.

[@PlasmaChannel]

All you need is an AC flyback and driver :P

[@chiforstefan178]

Hi!

[@jeffmullinix7916]

I am learning . Thanks Jeff

[@JChic-dh1pz]

Love what your doing, this is the future! Keep it up, Great work!

[@ronaldsibayan7826]

Great video Jay! I’m curious how a simple step up transformer could possibly increase the voltage/current (voltage/current that’s harvested from the atmosphere) to increase the speed and torque of the corona motor.

[@Sgh5920]

Hai 😄

[@calebmyers1442]

Tesla is so happy people are finally understanding his technology.

[@stefaniebruns]

This is pretty awesome stuff, thx a lot for exploring this!

[@GimmeMonie]

Just don't forget to wear your mask while handling this motor 😂

[@user-mz1uh4ju1n]

Yeah 🤣

[@sammy5576]

Budum tsss 🥁

[@chrisshijpack5109]

😇 “For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it.”❤️🔑🙏🏽 ‭‭Ecclesiastes‬ ‭7:12‬ ‭KJV‬‬

[@bradsarganis8479]

Dude, you rock...my mind is saying build a giant one!!

[@neoyagami9039]

I love your way of designing using materials around which is cheap and reusable... So interesting video

[@dmaschy599]

Interesting,I am glad that caught sight of this project.I am inspired by such things.

[@jurez8752]

I love it. I work on RF Plasma Processing and appreciate this work , high DC voltage , clean , neat stuff !

[@PlasmaChannel]

I really appreciate that, thanks!

[@STLUlrich]

And an experiment that can be done as a class project.

[@jordansickels11]

Awesome build yet again! Please keep em coming.

[@nox_luna]

youre like a tony stark with this stuff, amazing.

[@HaggisFist]

Super impressed by the torque!

[@wpastander]

This is mind blowing.. thanks for sharing you effords..

[@chadramsour3502]

Nikola would be proud. Gonna share this video.... very cool.

[@nolanwirth7477]

Hey Jay! I wanted to show my appreciation for your FRICKEN AMAZING work!! Your vids are my creative inspiration to make similar builds. From the science geek at heart, thank you delivering unique science in such a fun format!

[@PlasmaChannel]

Thank you Nolan, I really appreciate your comment!

[@jamespalazzi7990]

Excellent video thanks for sharing your knowledge

[@TechnoW1zard]

Thanks! Here's hoping I might be selected for that nicely built corona motor

[@suspense_comix3237]

I’m planning on making a Piston engine using static electricity physics. Basically, in static electricity physics, basically something that is positively charged will go to the negatively charged areas and vice versa. Something that is positively charged will also move away from something that is also positively charged. We can use this idea to move a piston up and down. We need High Voltage AC Static Electricity so that we can move the piston up and down depending on the sources frequency.

[@aclearlight]

Lovely work! This could be a powerful motivational piece for Jr-high and high school teachers to show in class.

[@jacobopstad5483]

I'm honestly impressed.

[@rogerhargreaves2272]

Wow, that is not only amazing, but beautiful in acrylic. 😀👍

[@robincross4625]

I like how you improved the design with each interation.

[@zagnut48219]

I've been pretty busy and missed a lot recently. This is pretty cool and had my kids wondering how it worked with no batteries or plugs. Hard to explain to a four and six year old. Now that winter is here, maybe I'll dig that new, thirty year old, bug zapper out of the basement.

[@JohnWayne99999a]

Love your videos and the effort you put in each one of them!!

[@PlasmaChannel]

Gion, that means a lot! Making these videos consumes almost 30 hours a week of my time, every week. Comments like this are appreciated.

[@Robothut]

Thank you for the build video.

[@danvasii9884]

Nice demonstration, I really liked it!

[@annaspelec4183]

Very nice project. I keep my fingers crossed for more awesome projects.

[@newnormal1009]

This is so great! Thanks for sharing

[@JoaoVitor-lh2lf]

Seus videos são incríveis mano parabéns

[@keithyinger3326]

That's brilliant! If only we could figure out a way to store all that atmospheric power. Maybe someday we could figure out an efficient way of tapping into it.

[@Aljonone1]

Really good to see, would it not spin a lot faster, during a thunder storm?

[@gerritnieuwenhuis9239]

Smart idea...I like it...I am in South Africa and are experimenting with magnets and magnetic fields to create energy in the form of a cheap generator for DIY. Gerrit

[@OptionParty]

For the negative emitters try high density brass screen with several strands removed from the edge adjacent to the rotor. Leaving a comb effect that would draw electrons to the wire tips.

[@learrus]

Lasersaber has a few videos on these and they got me obsessed with the idea of buildings being fitted with these motors to generate their own power

[@DuelingTreeMike]

Tesla meets John Gault! Well done sir!

[@Marv_Y]

I think that's pretty cool, you can literally use something that is not tangible like the atmosphere to make power.

[@ralph72462]

Nice you actually ran a load on it. Congrats!

[@respondersactiontv8404]

Thank you, nice, it is clear to understand how it works

[@ghazimalik]

Wonderful ordeal and execution.Welldone for the amazing video too.

[@nrerdfhj]

Always fascinating to watch, and another awesome video to add to the list !

[@PlasmaChannel]

My man Flo! Thanks brother. This video was tons of fun to make haha.

[@RawwBoss]

Dope. Thank you for sharing 🙏

[@batmanishere4153]

It's actually generating good amount of torque which is really interesting.

[@Mr_SamaeL.]

I will surely make this one as my project on the college, wireless motor is amazing 👏

[@BitOBear]

Nice work and fun delivery as always

[@yeogausiong8899]

I call this Free Energy Device 👍 is wonderful, please create more inventions 😊

[@rickclapp6560]

Very Impressive! I love that it shows the science behind the concepts. It gets the brain juices flowing. A great demo for high school science classes. Who knows you may see someone use this in the future for a real device. Maybe something in Space with zero gravity. Or ???

[@SammiB0403]

That's awesome, I would love to see this on a mega scale! Like to power a home...

[@DeXoDeD]

I love that you had hacksmith and styropyro in your watch list during the subscription plug

[@t13fox67]

That is interesting. I like the design. I used to play with the Van de graff generator alot or the wimhearst generator. Quit Kool. But I gotta try building one of these. Thank you so much.

[@ColinTimmins]

That was really neat, never thought about using static like that. Be a fun project for the kids.

[@fuijikun5367]

For kids 💀

[@JoeBissell]

Thats really cool i wonder when ill get the time to make one of these.

[@scienceorfiction136]

i have an addiction to your videos really cooooool i love them!