> When I was a kid, I saw an air ionizer that I thought was made from a
> fluorescent light ballast. Those things put out over a 150V pulsed DC,
> nearest I can figure. This one just had a sharpened pin on the end of
> it, and you could feel the stream of ions it was putting out.
I have one on the top of my refrigerator at work, positive ions give
people a `good feeling,' but no one has proved there is any other effects worth
talking about. (It takes 3 or 4 kV to ionize air, electrical outlets have
over 150 volt peaks in the narrow slot. That might have been a low voltage
neon sign {or a microwave oven} transformer, AND a diode. 7 - 10 kV
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