Make A Water Leyden Jar

Step 9 Completed!

There! You made a salted water leyden jar!

I also added a magnet and a ball to make it more "Leyden Jar" like.

I measured the capacitance of my leyden jar, and my meter reads 946pF, that is about 1nF! that is quite high for this small leyden jar!

Comments

[Homepwner]

I tried this with foil tape both on the inside and outside of the jar. It didn't work . Most likely because the adhesive acts as an insulator so the joints do not conduct. I wouldn't recommend using foil tape. I figured this would be a problem before the build but I thought I'd try anyway.

[greymatter21]

nice  job!!!!!!!!!
1 question:what exactly would this be used for wen fully charged?

[franzwa]

tesla coil or some thing

[freeza36]

or a trick taser ("touch this wire while holding the nail. it doesnt hurt, i swear")

[ismaelplague]

how does it charge>?

[bears0]

Try using your tv not plasma make sure it is the old style

[the_burrito_master]

Get a 3/4inch by 3-4 ft long pvc pipe and get an old cotton shirt and slide the pipe back and forth with the cloth in your left hand right over the layden jar. (don't touch the metal part just induce the charge through the air.)

[vandal1138]

Holy freakin crap i found this site yesterday and have never felt this stupid. Ever. I wanna do cool stuff and laser beams an all this crap. I think my eyes are bleeding

[Kryptonite]

wtf is an nF or pF?

[AnarchistAsian]

nF - nano Faraday pF - pico Faraday a Faraday is a unit of energy there are 1000 pF in 1 nF

[Derin]

isn't it Farad?

[NInja99]

named after britsh scientist micheal faraday

[AnarchistAsian]

yeah

[AnarchistAsian]

yeah

[5ar]

May I correct you... Faraday is a measure of capacity, not energy. Joule is a measure of energy.
1 F = the whole capacity of the Earth itself. Since that is not achievable, smaller units are used.

[ReCreate]

Eh...no you may not. :P

[Xellers]

Actually, there are 1 F capacitors out there. They are used for enormous car stereo systems. Take a look: http://www.nextag.com/1-farad-capacitor/search-html

They are used because a very big system can steal all of the electricity from the rest of the car (effectively turning it off) when it hits a low bass. The capacitor is used to keep your car going.

[Plasmana]

I have recently seen some massive 100 farad capacitors somewhere on the internet, and those capacitors are only rated to handle 2.5v, but the capacity is freaking huge!

[dumle29]

just ordered two 2600 2.5V capacitors

:D spot welding :D

[ReCreate]

small compared to the 3000 farad ones theyre rated at 3.something volts

[AnarchistAsian]

OOPS, yeah, sorry, i meant capacity, i just glanced at the comment and made a quick comment... and yeah, i know what a joule is, i was just calculating the power in my capacitors a few days ago for my COIL GUNZZZZ

[Plasmana]

Did you mean Farad?

[AnarchistAsian]

yeah... sorry.

[Plasmana]

Thats okay, just umm.. Teaching you! That is what instructables is all about!

[AnarchistAsian]

my dad usually does... he's a proffesor!!!

[Plasmana]

Cool!!!! What does he study on?!?!

[marshman19]

only total geeks like us would think that being a professor is cool. lol.

[CybergothiChe]

professors ARE cool!

[AnarchistAsian]

Physics! it comes in handy for dangerous science!

[Plasmana]

Cool! I wanted to be a scientist when I grow up!
^{My parents I am already a scientist!}
High voltage is physics?

[AnarchistAsian]

well, he knows alot about it... and yeah... electrons, how they react in low temperatures, etc...

[Plasmana]

Electrons react in low temperatures?

[ReCreate]

uh,yeah they use liquid helium to achieve super conductivity,its almost absolute zero

[freeza36]

superfluids and supersolids? nice....

[bears0]

 thats cool why dont they do that for extension cords so they dont lose power

[ReCreate]

Because it may be pretty hard to supercool miles of cable. ;)

[Kryptonite]

in extreeemely low temperatures (like almost absolute zero) electrons slow down loads, so they're hardly moving, this makes different materials act strangely, magnets become super super powerful. they're thinking of making train track that run on magnets that are at absolute zero so that they can save energy because to move the train it's like 1 poke and it keeps goin almost infinitely.

This is amazing because it's never been done and all of this is theory. And to freeze the magnets that cold would take more energy than just running the train normally.
I think that somebody (namely awesomecated smart people from this site)should just think of a way thats a bit more economic.

[bears0]

 i thought about making a generator just out of magnets and electromagnets
and the electromagnets will be powered by the power the generator makes and extra power will be sent to your house

[overkillbbb]

Here is a tab to check out

http://www.free-energy.ws/index.html

[overkillbbb]

they got schematics for building, magnetically opperated motors without using power, i believe its under the utube video just type in Bedini motor and you will find it, im working on a fully operational magnet motor using neodenium magnets in three separete discs, all interlocked using a 5 degree angle counter clockwise assembly, for a total of 216 magnets hope to be able to make it with my wood lathe, out of acrylic compound and drilling and implanting magnets 10 degrees apart.

that should allow fields to interact when outer magnets are engaged to allow fully usable energy to power a generator and run a inverter with the help of a capacitance bank, then the sky's the limit and power your own house, also have been experimenting on radiant energy, Nicoli Tesla had something our rich oil enteprenours or government didnt want published, how would they then, line their pockets all along with the automotive industry, just think cars with gasoline engine machines would be a thing of the past, that my friend is why its a hush hush situation, just think of the cascading effect and the things that would be affected.

WOW!!!!!!