Live-build 3kV positive ion dust collector PSU.

I think this might be the first live build I've done from the bench.
It's a high voltage step up circuit designed to create a high positive voltage on a panel to try and encourage dust charged by a negative ion generator to settle out on the panel instead of on walls and furnishings.
If you like the live videos there's a dedicated channel for live streams called BigCliveLive:-
/ @bigclivelive
The components used were 10 100nF X2 suppression capacitors, 10 1N4007 1A 1kV diodes and two 1 Megohm half watt resistors.
The diodes and capacitors are used to make a simple Cockroft Walton voltage multiplier that steps the voltage up to about 3kV, and the two resistors chosen partly for their resistance and partly for their higher voltage rating provide safety current limiting and separation from the mains supply. The resistor voltage doesn't have to be 3kV as that voltage will not normally be seen across them.
The case is a bit of 1.5" (37mm) plastic drain pipe with either drainage end caps or 3D printed caps with holes for the cable gland and output banana socket.
If you enjoy these videos you can help support the channel with a dollar for coffee, cookies and random gadgets for disassembly at:-
www.bigclive.co...
This also keeps the channel independent of KZbin's advertising algorithms allowing it to be a bit more dangerous and naughty.

[@mcomiskey7]

Clive, when you said "Hello Family" I put me right out my depressed state. Thanks man.

[@bigclivedotcom]

You're welcome. When you see how similar minded we are on this channel I think we are all pretty much family.

[@Cutehuskyshorts]

Lol

[@johnanders8861]

Amen man! Me too. If ya need anything don’t mind to reach out to us!

[@jacobwcrosby]

I was *SO EXCITED* when I read 'Thanks me.' But then discovered it read "Thanks man." I was so damn excited to leave a comment about how great your brain is, and how it had nothing to do with Clive, but... Clive to the rescue again... Despite my greatest of hopes to see self-repairing brain matter, seems we'll be needing Clive's spirit for many more times... ⌚ Like a watch... Not like a 'plural'...

[@heyidiot]

Clive defined: - Doing the thing - "It's a bad idea" - Continues doing the thing

[@frykasj]

It's OK, Big Clive's a trained professional with his own explosion-containment pie-dish.

[@anthonytidey2005]

If you think Clive is living dangerously you should see ElectroBOOM

[@PSUQDPICHQIEIWC]

I don't know. All of my biggest dust collectors don't even need a power supply. I mean, they're just sitting there collecting dust.

[@pulesjet]

Any thing without dust in my house shows up like a sore thumb.

[@BADALICE]

lol.

[@harrygreenfeld4964]

Watching this a couple years later it strikes me how calm and how well big Clive dealt with the obviously provocative questions, the trolls and the hecklers. It's an art, he'd make a good stand up comedian maybe.

[@kevindh22]

Post is still working. We are dealing with levels higher than Xmas so be patient we are still working flat out while still trying to stay Safe from covid 19.

[@bigclivedotcom]

It's greatly appreciated.

[@wimwiddershins]

It's admirable how casually Clive disposes of spammers/trolls. The power of very patient, Dad-voice. Nice Sir!

[@keithcoltron3171]

Hi Clive, many moons ago I had a tour around a Power Station and I remember they had 'soot' collectors at the base of the chimney which took out most of the solid pollutants from the boilers, they were charged to a very high voltage (can't remember the voltage) and every few minutes there would be a loud clang as a hammer controlled by a cam hit the metal collector plates releasing the soot into a collection tray beneath, I suppose this is the same thing but on a much bigger scale, I also remember the very strong smell of Ozone near to the HV generators, how the HV was generated I can no longer remember but I do remember being told the HV was pretty high!

[@bigclivedotcom]

Electrostatic precipitators.

[@keithcoltron3171]

@@bigclivedotcom Hi Clive, thanks for that I'll do some research and see what I can dig up, it was amazing just how much these Electrostatic precipitators actually pulled out of a rather fast moving stream of gases, again I was told at the time how efficient they were but it was a long time ago when my friend took me around, I do remember however how impressed I was at all the engineering involved and just how accurate the speed of the generators were which of course governed their output frequency, so much to see, if you ever get the chance to get a tour around a power station I would hope you too as an engineer would find it all very interesting, keep truckin' with your vids I have seen every one and think they're all great, many thanks for the education and your great sense of humor, maybe one year I'll come and see the tattoo, I watch it on TV but like most things it's far better live, take care and stay healthy.

[@mannys9130]

@@keithcoltron3171 That's the exact same concept relative to how N/P/KN95-100 masks work. :) The fibers of the mask material are charged and attract the droplets and debris that the pathogen virions ride around upon as someone breaths/coughs/sneezes/talks into the air. The charges are small and slight, but Van Der Waals forces are very strong when talking about these droplets which are microscopic. :) The electrostatic precipitators yank the soot particulate out of the exhaust stream, and the N95 mask yanks all the covid droplets and dust right out of the air you inhale/exhale. It's fascinating.

[@ethanpoole3443]

Fran (channel “Fran Blanche”) does tackle occasional tube/valve projects as well as any other eclectic interest that piques her fancy. I believe the other one you were looking for was the “Mr. Carlson’s Lab” channel as he fixes up old radios, tech instruments, power amplifiers, amateur radios, etc., most of which tend to be tube/valve based. There are others as well, but both of those are among my favorites.

[@bigclivedotcom]

The one I was trying to remember was glassslinger who makes tubes and does vintage equipment restoration.

[@ethanpoole3443]

bigclivedotcom I don’t watch glassslinger nearly as often, they (I haven’t watched often enough to figure out the preferred pronoun it seems) are certainly interesting to watch as they often make tubes from scratch which is quite fascinating. There is also someone who repairs and refurbishes old CRTs, as well as making new CRTs, which is very interesting though I can’t recall the channel.

[@ethanpoole3443]

Eddie Hitler I’m sure those are the two words they concatenated together to name the channel given their glassworks. However, looking up the exact channel name in my subscriptions list, the correct channel name is “glasslinger” (it’s one “s” shorter than what I had recalled...I was thinking it was “glassslinger”, but that is one too many “s” characters).

[@theskett]

Blue Glow kzbin.info/door/VXv8_dfJjqWluEFktmv12A is pretty good; some repairs, some new builds of old designs. Valve / tube maven :-)

[@christopherdesbaux5950]

@@bigclivedotcom love glassslinger. Such a treasure. That individual is potentially a post nuclear holocaust hero.

[@spamletspamley672]

Plastic pill bottles make good containers for this sort of thing, and the lid becomes the mounting, for, say, screwing a lamp to the ceiling. Dremel Veriflame with different tips to make whatever ports you need (you can make more types by turning down M7 bolts and drilling a side hole for the exhaust). My bathroom light was just one 10W lamp behind a glass diffuser, and was totally useless and wouldn't take a brighter 'bulb'. I had vitamin bottles to hand so just put three Chinese LED plastic gel coated 'pineapple' lamps sticking out through the sides of the bottle at 120 degrees and connected them through the lid screwed to the ceiling. Works brilliantly. The lamps aren't all on at the same time, but you only notice if you take a picture.

[@TheHexCube]

Charging yourself up to high voltage to test vape? - PRICELESS! (He knows what he's doing kids. DON'T try things like this unless you have YEARS of experience and know EXACTLY what you're doing. MASSIVE amounts of PAIN or DEATH may ensue). Big Clive does it so you don't have to. Please don't piss about with these things. Esp when connected to mains. The more you know, the bigger the confidence/gamble/power, and the more can that go wrong so easily. Take care please science lovers. ❤

[@TheHexCube]

I got bit by electricity twice as a kid thanks to curiosity without caution/protective measures/KNOWLEDGE. Once with UK mains AC, and once with a DC mains transformer. Messed up my heart. Take NO risks with your science/engineering/chemistry pursuits. TAKE CARE AND BE SMART.

[@TheHexCube]

Maybe in the future A.I. can discern who watches Big Clive's awesome high voltage/current content? Idiots, budding entheusiasts and inexperienced youngsters are at great risk being 'inspired' by this stuff and causing great harm to themselves and others. That being said, I ❤ your channel Big C. Thank you.

[@kardeef33317]

I remember as a teenager in the early 80's thinking I was the sh*t with my vic 20 and a 300 baud modem,lol

[@datafilehunter1682]

PVC solvent works very well for removing that printing. I used it for pipe which was supporting a mailbox, it's 20 plus years later and it's as nice looking as the first day.

[@David-mv3zl]

The L.E.D. story made me grin.

[@jacobwcrosby]

It flusters me to feel like I am the only one actually hoping Clive makes it out alive! Seems there are always people hoping the things he makes are deadly... It's all funandgood, so long as Clive is rocking it sufficiently to work tomorrow... ALIVE AND SHITE!

[@Watchyn_Yarwood]

An enormous THANK YOU to all KZbin content creators for providing all of us with additional content during this very trying time! I can only speak for myself when I say you are helping me retain what little sanity I have left having been sheltered in place for the last 2 1/2 weeks!!

[@gizmothewytchdoktor]

as a theft/entry deterrent device this is GOLD clive! imagine,if you eill.....attached to the frame of a metal 'screen' door....or....attached to window frames....door knobs...you get the picture :-)

[@TheEPROM9]

You will probaly like this Clive. I am using one of these circuits to build a PSU for a Image Intencifyer tube. I am trying to build a night vision scope or simular. Maybe mount it to my car so I can see those pesky padestrians who dress in black & wonder the roads at night.

[@annoyingbstard9407]

A fly-tying vice would be handy for those fiddly soldering jobs.

[@LonnonFoster]

I love that the stream went from dangerous high voltage to dangerous solvents.

[@carpdog42]

Funny.... I was thinking of a project like this but, since I got the idea from watching your teardowns, it shouldn't be surprising. My thought was to build a double ended device so you have a negative ion wind out one side and a collection "pond" underneath... because a liquid collection plate is easy to clean....just change the water.

[@lmwlmw4468]

Always great to flood things with solder......it bonds things very tight, after a good fluxing.......

[@Anvilshock]

5:25 - "It's just focusing all the time and that gets very annoying" - I wish someone told this Julian Ilett to make him finally lock that focus once and for all.

[@amorphuc]

This is like the old days kind of. Just hanging out with you and doing shit. LOVE IT.

[@Falcrist]

Have you ever considered doing a "Neutral Stream" to return all the charge from your "Live Stream"s?

[@wesleymays1931]

Introducing NeutralStream: People leaving webcams on all the time, and other people tuning in whenever they want.

[@nimoy007]

As long as you don't cross the streams

[@frogz]

@@wesleymays1931 jennycam did this back in the 90s

[@wesleymays1931]

@@frogz well bring it back then

[@kreynolds1123]

The negative ion generator uses needles points to discharge electrons because the electric field gradient is greatest there. Edges also have a higher electric field gradient than smooth flat planes. I suspect you'd see more interesting results near the edges of your high voltage plate than at the center.

[@philmerrifield1163]

Peice of advice Clive: when soldering multiple leads, start at the bottom not the top as then you're filling it up like a glass. No air spaces. I worked out this trick as I am too much of a miser to buy prototyping things

[@amorphuc]

I remember my dad making a fuse once with the Potassium Nitrate but he had to dip it several times.

[@mannys9130]

I used to make blackmatch as a kid. :) Just take black powder (FFFg) moistened with a bit of distilled water to make a thick slurry, and run a cotton string through it to coat the string in some of the BP. Hang dry. After it fully dries, the BP will burn at a fairly fast rate making it a fast fuse. To *REALLY* speed it up a *LOT* you can take a piece of wide masking tape and fold the tape in half lengthwise (hotdog style) with the black match encapsulated in the center. It burns damn near instantly from end to end because the tape tube contains the hot gases and drives the fire down the fuse length at a breakneck speed versus the open-burn blackmatch. 😺 You can also make electronic fuses very easily by buying the cheapest hairdryer at goodwill, ripping the resistive wire element out of it, and using a small section cut off and dipped into that blackmatch slurry. Apply a small 12V sealed LA battery to it through a long wire, and it lights off within a couple seconds. The most ghetto way to do this is to wrap a match head with 0000 steel wool and connect that to the ends of 2 wires and it accomplishes the same effect.

[@davey2k12]

I used to do the electric ignition just by using a match stick either wrap 2 turns or use the length of match to keep wire apart and stick it in the firework that the fuses are loose and 3 wraps of thin speaker wire around a fuse works every time 😆 Then I started making own bangers from red match dust no bigger than half a thumb better lit electronically than a fuse but both work Roll a fat tube of paper put thin wire through block one end fill it and cap it use electrical tape strips to tightly seal it off connect to 12v battery with long wire and bang 😅😅😅

[@Wineman3383]

One of my favorite live streams

[@williamarmstrong7199]

Your continuity meter beeping woke my dog up and had her looking around the room with her ears flapping like a bats! Very funny.

[@theskett]

Whereas I thought the beeps were my PC making BIOS complaints, during a very-hard reboot :-)

[@jasonudall8614]

Just a thought....crop lead then reflow.....nice smooth joints...no spikes

[@theskett]

Scanlime did this, on a "cordwood" kit; lovely smooth solder bumps, as a result :-) kzbin.info/www/bejne/anTSZHiPl7B7jLM

[@TheHexCube]

HaHaa! Great pusscat story with the catnip. Bless! X

[@cod_red_9736]

Hey Clive love the RFID vid. Really cool stuff, i bet really hot subject to make vids on. but i really enjoyed your tips and subtle hints ;)

[@robert574]

3yrs later, I'm wondering if you could take a thin plastic bag like our Walmart bags and shred an edge into some long thin strips then fasten some to the positive pole and then bring the strips close to the other pole. And look for attraction.

[@gcewing]

Coming from Clive, the term "banana connector" could have more than one meaning.

[@BedsitBob]

"I want Candy". Bow-Wow-Wow. 😊

[@realShadowKat]

Sorry I missed it live, I had afternoon meetings needing attending. Glad to re-live it though!

[@Acoustic_Theory]

It's BigClive and his Big 3kV Tchooob.

[@Miata822]

Sorry I missed the livestream. Was busy being quarantined. The one I'm building uses an aluminum mesh filter for the positive electrode. A small blower passes air over the ionizer and then through the mesh filter. All is contained in an enclosure so all air is exposed the the ionizer and can only exit through the filter. Test rig is all cardboard and gaffer tape. When I have something presentable I will post it. If you are interested in trying it yourself search vent hood filter or microwave filter. Blower is a salvaged laptop cooling centrifugal blower. I'm using fancy commercial ionizer heads I found at an auction but will also try a DIY ionizer. Since dust in ionized air will stick to your walls and furniture I was not planning to charge the filters to a high positive voltage but after this video I will probably try that too. One way or the other the key is exposing the ionized air to a large surface area of grounded (+, electron attracting) material.

[@stevecox2530]

It's a bit late now, but Safeway was taken over by Morrisons. Finefair, Gateway, Pricerite, International and Kwiksave were all amalgamated into Somerfield (owned at some point by a company called Isosceles)

[@williamsmith455]

32:45 "electrostatic precipitator" were the words you were looking for.

[@kreynolds1123]

Reguarding the catnip, Electricity and plant growth 40:05 is an actual and facinating thing. A great place to start is googling "electroculture", and or "electrotropism"

[@bigclivedotcom]

Interesting subjects.

[@kreynolds1123]

@@bigclivedotcom This video may be completely too boring for 99% of people, but to me, the topics and observations, and arguments made are completely fascinating. electrortopism kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y37Ynph3adZga7M ends with a completing thought, comparing the physical records of the flow of electricity between trees and a lichtenberg figurine.

[@zombienation68]

My first LEDs came from TANDY...was in getting my free batteries, I had a few cards, lol...I saw them and thought 'must have' only red, amber & green available then...first school electronics club project was traffic lights 😂

[@robertgaines-tulsa]

I read it too fast as "positron dust collector". Star Trek suggests positronics will be a thing, but modern science suggests that positronic would behave the same way as electrons assuming all of your electronic components are made of antimatter. Otherwize, it would be a fantastic gamma ray emitter if used with regular electronics or anything else that is made of regular matter. Something like that of thermonuclear bombs depending on how much antimatter you can store which is barely more than nothing right now or just enough to heat up a cup of coffee.

[@carpdog42]

It would absolutely not be a gamma ray emitter.... it would be a positron emitter; it isn't the emitter's fault they don't make it very far.

[@masterrick3671]

i think you are scientist...not just ordinary electronics man......

[@davey2k12]

Funny the high voltage affect the screen I was using one of them spark generator modules and my multi meter turned on 😂😂😂

[@Pickleriiiiiick]

Haha, rewatching videos before bed and my name being said shot me back awake!

[@SomeMorganSomewhere]

In case you care, that TPLink router is supported by OpenWRT. I've a few lying around that I've installed OpenWRT on for various purposes.

[@bigclivedotcom]

It's quite an old version. TL-WR702N. I'm not sure it's a recommended upgrade due to memory constraints.

[@SomeMorganSomewhere]

@@bigclivedotcom Ah, thought it was a 703, yeah, ISTR the 702 only has 4MB of flash which makes it no-go territory

[@davidf8749]

I built an ioniser a while ago and had it on my desk at work thinking those ions would have a positive effect. Putting a wet finger to the needle point indicated a breeze was being emitted (of ions). Noticed that the paperwork seemed to "stick" to the desk after using it. Ended up having the most horrendous cold - reckoned the charge attracted all the "bugs" to my desk.

[@therealjammit]

Add a fishtank bubbler to the "acetone of discovery" tank to keep the fluid agitated.

[@theskett]

That'd make your acetone evaporate very quickly, unfortunately. Also you'd need a non-return valve, and acetone is quite likely to damage the valve (and/or pump). Instead it's traditional to use a geared-down motor (e.g. from a microwave) with a cam, underneath the container, to slosh the liquid slowly back and forth :-)

[@kreynolds1123]

Certain candle wicks have a little metal wire inside it. it might be interesting to charge it while the candle is lit.

[@StephenBelcher-sr3zk]

There’s Something Happens” Einstienien Phenomenon , My End Of The Tube Here, Clive

[@MazeFrame]

This gives me an idea (that has been done in the early days of humanity experimenting with electricity): Two charged plate with a gab between them. Gold leafes getting charged on the lower one and flying up to the upper plate where they discharge and fall back down.

[@gowdsake7103]

Highest voltage I dealt with was a 30 KV pulse transformer on a high power radar was kinda scary earthing that beast down

[@anthonytidey2005]

When I was at colledge light years ago, one of the other students work in the preperation/testing lab in Welwyn Garden City in the UK. The company was Neosid the largest manufacturer in the UK. Think it still exists? It is a good substance as it's recylcable as failed spec or broken cores or rods can be foreground and reformed and refired to the specified magnetic. properties. There must be a company in the US that makes them as the process is simple just needs a lot of ovens to fire the ferrite. Thanks Clive for the video

[@dsh1337]

About the vape test - try to avoid inhaling it into lungs - just hold it in your mouth, then you can let it spill out (almost like a liquid) into a container or directly onto a surface.

[@lostjohnny9000]

I made a Cock-Walt ion motor using a small inverter The motor armature was a brass bushing with 4 sharp pins soldered and bent into a swastika shape. It spun fast and made lots of ozone. Touching it while spinning never got boring!

[@theskett]

Thanks, I hadn't heard of this before. Google found me this, 10kV and a couple of neon lamps that show the ion current: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jl7VXqNonq2ieqM

[@lostjohnny9000]

@@theskett That's a great video. It's incredible how much pressure the armature can blast and how much ozone gets mixed in the air.

[@theskett]

Now I'm wondering if LEDs might work fine / better than neons :-) Just gotta go find some 10kV, I feel zaps in my future :-)

[@lostjohnny9000]

@@theskett I never tried LEDs. The current supply through the multiplier is determined by the amount of stages, size of caps and speed of the inverter. It was definitely less than 1mA. I made plenty of magic smoke before I produced a working circuit so I'd say neons would be more robust!

[@anvilgardgen]

Keep up the live shows as I missed this one..

[@StephenBelcher-sr3zk]

Thanks Clive : Well Done Man: Ace❤

[@simonizer2012]

Clive you should have made some Franklin's Bells to power from these ionisers

[@theskett]

Thanks, I'd forgotten those: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_bells Though I'm skeptical as to whether 3kV + 3kV gives enough electrostatic attraction to move significant mass...

[@heyarno]

That effect where the smoke is blown to the side, reminds me about blade less fans. I'll have to look if they work by the same principle.

[@stridermt2k]

All the best, Clive!

[@josephsteffen2378]

The Coriolis effect affects the movement in a way that confounds logic....and observation. Physics related to rotating objects...

[@ironnam8107]

Mix acetone with alcohol 50/50 and more alcohol to stop it melting the plastic. I've done it many of times before

[@stevetobias4890]

Wish you had made a negative and a positive ion generator so you could stand two copper plates up horizontally each side of the smoke and flame to get a better demonstration of the airflow between the two. Here in Australia a Dark & Stormy is a mixture of Dry Ginger Ale and Bundeburg Rum.

[@Polite_Cat]

The microphone isnt great but its way better then i wouldve thought then an integrated laptop microphone. Usually they are so terrible, almost unusable.

[@ChrisComley]

The first device I had with a blue LED in was a PRI (ISDN-30) interface card. ISDN could generate a number of different alert conditions, BT used to refer to these by colour, so of course for a "blue alert" they decided to use a blue LED. And, of course, blue alerts just about never happened!

[@rich1051414]

Totally worth the extra $15 on the price tag. Those early blue LEDs were expensive.

[@davelowets]

and they looked much better than the eye piercing blue ones we have now

[@rich1051414]

@@davelowets The fact modern blue LED's produce "too much" blue light caused the revolution in lighting we have today, by using phosphors to convert that blue light to any other color light. However, I do really wish electronics manufactures would cut the brightness of blue LEDs... by like 3.

[@davelowets]

@@rich1051414Its not so much the brightness for me with the newer blue LEDs, but it's the frequency of the color I don't like. The older ones were a much better, darker, shade of blue.

[@ChrisComley]

@@davelowets Well the old (original) expensive ones were actual 470nm diodes. Modern ones are, as with many colours, likely to be UV diodes and a phosphor coating on the cover that glows in the "chosen" colour.

[@morelenmir]

A thoroughly enjoyable video!!! I personally enjoy the kit-build and full project material perhaps the most of all--they are very useful indeed to pick up many easily-missed techniques and dodges. Indeed, I have been wondering about having another bash at electronics, but now you can no longer get real solder in England I am pretty much stuffed.

[@theskett]

I bought 60/40 solder from AliExpress; a bit slow to arrive, but good price and works well :-)

[@ianleitch9960]

"Speed camera, not too interesting inside perhaps". Ha ha, "One less outside!" Heathcote that did kits . . . Heathkit a Schlumberger company - at the time anyhow. (Stranraerlad1 from the chat).

[@GenaTrius]

I thought for a moment that I was going to find out that Clive owned a husky dog, but he was just commenting on a furry entering the chat.

[@PsiQ]

Just happened to get to the @01:19:50 part of the stream. The transmission by light was implemented by now in industry. i think it was using infrared so same as your normal remote control. To get coverage everywhere in the room there is a high number of sender/receivers needed and the machines (in this case robo transport slides) need to have multiple receivers. It also works as reflections on metallic surfaces but it (as you mentioned) means that you basically need a sensor/sender every few meters so it is kinda sensible to integrate into/at light fixtures. Main benefit is that it does not get disturbed by EM fields or electrical discharges / electrical noise emitted by high power equipment. With error correction and the usual protocols implemented for wlan it gts high enough bandwith to be usable. Short Range also means not hacking into from far outside the business compound. (Dont have the paper here, i think it was in the monthly "Elektronik" we get in the office) But if that gets used (could be for autonomous cars) people will start yelling that the streetlights now emit "light" and that light is harmful because the sun does fusion and causes cancer....

[@heyarno]

I noticed a image intensifier tube catching dirt on the screen, when it's in use outside the night vision device. Though the voltage is pretty high. 3 stages with 16kv in series.

[@longrunner258]

I'd consider making the spacer to stand proud of the capacitors, giving a few mm of lead length between the joints and capacitor bodies, to reduce the possibility of soldering damage.

[@MARKE911]

Just revisiting this again as a project I wanted to do and see if I can make magical smoke from me doing the project incorrectly

[@andrewlee6152]

Best cleaner for removing those printed letters from PVC pipe. is superglue activator.. was also perfect for removing marker pen, from paintwork on submarine equipment, even it had been there for years, but I can't talk about that, even after all these years OSA and all

[@GadgetBoy]

I'd love to see a tutorial on open scad. I've been farting around, but you clearly know what you're doing.

[@StephenBelcher-sr3zk]

And I’ve Still Got” Stay tight With Sophia Stallone , Clive : Survive

[@TrakaBat]

Earth is positive in relation to negative ions. It isn't really necessary to use a positivity charged plate to attract negativity charged dust. A grounded surface works.

[@TomsBackyardWorkshop]

Big Clive inadvertently inventing the flux capacitor.

[@jasonudall8614]

Flux...?....what kind of flux?.rosin? Magnetic ?

[@jezmy2006]

Maybe put your potted components and acetone in an ultrasonic cleaner - that way the sludgy gunge should / might come away by itself... Worth considering?

[@westendgirls100]

Could you do the experiment with the plate held vertical instead of horizontal. That way the rising smoke with camera horizontal it would show any traction or repulsion to the rising smoke. And any that got neutralized that might float sideways to later float down. Of coarse you would have to show us the back of your bench. 😉😉

[@stephenbelcher]

Yes, CliFE, “ And If I Cannot Do it myself : “ Teach Stephen!”

[@mikenco]

Strange watching the replay of the comments from Apr 2020 nearly 2 years later and COVID19 is still a huge problem. We had no clue back then.

[@fredjones7307]

We used to make Jakob ladders with redundant neon sign transformers. Very spectacular until the secondary burned out. I've always thought they'd make an excellent anti-burglar device in the window triggered by a outside proximity device..I mean, would you break in..

[@sailingcapedissappointment2012]

IE the Banana Connection .... the name Cocroft has been haunting me

[@sailingcapedissappointment2012]

The Micronta is hooked up to a couple of crystal batteries that I made at the moment .. soon to be in circuit with a couple of joule thieves I made ....

[@groovejet33]

id love to see what kit youve got lying around your homes?? ha ha would be great fun

[@cameronmckenzie7130]

love it, family vibes!

[@rollbot]

before or after to sniff that pen.. LOL!!! love this channel!

[@threeMetreJim]

Blue LED's been around over 20, maybe 25, years. I'm sure I saw the first one something like 1994. Still got some original 5mm Nichia LED's that I bought from Maplins, once they got down to the £2 each price (about y2k ish).

[@sofa-lofa4241]

94 sounds about right, about the same time as the first laser tubes were available from Maplins, 1mW red for £60

[@AstonColey]

Circuit reminds me of the old television triplers.

[@bigclivedotcom]

I think they did use high voltage Walton Cockroft multipliers like this.

[@stephenbelcher]

You Should what h the Vidal Sassoon Team Channel Sometime , Big Clive😃✍️

[@churchill5778]

Ah! A Corona-magnet! Splendid!

[@jujubrio4916]

ionizer mainly ionize particulate mater below 0.5um that explains why you can't see the smoke being attracted would work better with a hepa filter close to the smoke and the ionizer a meter away for smaller particle because the ion collide with big particle and are wasted.

[@stephenbelcher]

I’m going Drain Addictt Live Next Clive

[@mitch3064]

BigPinkClive? Kind of scary thought.

[@dsh1337]

I faintly remember a very old, but still quite futuristic idea of placing giant structures strategically around dense city centres. They would use electrostatics to collect pollutants in the air. The coolest thing is that you could design these as art installations - substance without sacrificing style. Wonder what happened? Guess the real-world numbers didn't add up?

[@bigclivedotcom]

You may wish to explore the Chizhevsky chandelier.

[@STONEDay]

Fun stream. :-)

[@StephenBelcher-sr3zk]

Operation Alder Valley: Scruff has The Com

[@StephenBelcher-sr3zk]

It’s Potassiaum Permaganate , I think : Clive❤

[@robmacdonald7004]

Electrostatic effects are less than convective effects. (Smoke at 49 minutes or so).

[@DaveLennonCopeland]

Yet another live stream that I missed... :(