Make A Water Leyden Jar

Step 11 My set up.

That is not my only leyden jar I made, I made many more, even leyden jars made out of wine bottles, but they did not turn out right, so, I threw them out..

I used my high voltage power supply (flyback transformer driver) to test the leyden jar I made, it works very well, and makes very bright sparks! I could probably use this as a Tesla Coil capacitor bank..

Well, I hoped you enjoyed this instructable!
If you have any questions, or need help, or found an error, or anything, make a comment! ^{I like comments! :)}

Comments

[fully-automatic]

I made one of these and tried to charge it with a small 50kv tesla coil, and it didn't work

[sniperHunted]

was the nail galvanized?

[tgupta]

hello i am having a problem with charging the outer foil of the jar how to do so using a simple electrostatic example and yes
can i use the ocmb and a woolen cloth for charging teh outer layer of aluminum foil

[baker amin]

Hi. thanks for this instructable. the only thing I need to know is how you connected the flyback transformer. can you help me please?

[aweis]

would i be able to charge this with a 70v alternating current generator? if so how much electricity eould it store per unit of volume of the container? i intend to make a tesla coil, a small one with the generator previously mentioned, so so please answer my question. would thhere be any problems with the alternationg current, sonce this is what tesla coils run on.

tesla is awesome, now if only i could find those desighns for the death ray.

[jellynation]

can you charge it with a battery? mine seem to not work. any advice? am i suppose to wrap the bottom? i did but i suspect current leaking out from there.

[impedance214]

do a 9v battery will work?

[G.J. Dyason]

if you scale this down alot a 9V batery should work but the charge you'll be able to store will be REALLY tiny!

[Plasmana]

No

[Pie Ninja]

Proabably not, that's a very low voltage.

[BANANI]

How do we know whether our capacitor is charged or not and how do we obtain this charge and for what do we use it?

[jamesnj1]

can you charge it with a car battery charger?

[-max-]

can ya make a lifter Plasmana, id tried 2 make 1 but I realized i dont have high enogh power (voltage)

[3477]

could you power it with a taser or simply a battery

[Plasmana]

A high voltage tazer might work but a battery won't work.

[awz123]

could you charge it using your world smallest shocker?

[C14ROCK1710042]

How old are you? (:| im 13 :)) i have made one with m&m case and it works the best among the rest (I think it is kind of polyethelene)

[Plasmana]

It says on my profile.

[mauswiesel]

im really impressed with your skillz in electronic, probably you have a certain future in electronic study !
I like to play with Hv too, and im very interested on your circuit shown in the picture above :
how do you supply the high voltage supply from crt monitor without 220 V?
can you make a drawing of this circuit? it's very interesting !
Thanks a lot for your instructable ! =)

[Plasmana]

Oh, the flyback transformer driver that you are interested in, It suddenly stopped working, and I lost the schematics for it... Sorry... Search flyback transformer driver' on google, you should find some pretty good results.

[mauswiesel]

and , oh, i did a research and can't found any lifter project. If you don't know what it's is, be sure you will like this !

just check http://jnaudin.free.fr/lifters/main.htm

[Plasmana]

Yes, I know what a lifter is...