On Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 11:47:04PM -0400, Ronald KA4INM Youvan wrote:
> > 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 may or may not make people feel one way or another, but it does clean
the air of particulate matter to some extent.
> (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
>
They didn't have microwave ovens back then (am I old or what?). But
a neon sign transformer, maybe.
Paul
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