Re: [SLUG] OT Air ionizers

From: Paul M Foster (paulf@quillandmouse.com)
Date: Sun Jul 14 2002 - 23:23:39 EDT


On Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 05:25:25PM -0400, Smitty wrote:

> Do you need to build one? I know where you can buy both positive and
> negative ion generators.
> Smitty
>

More a point of curiosity than anything else. Ionizers are ridiculously
overpriced for what they are, and it seemed like the one I saw was home
made, of simple readily-available materials. Just wondering if the
building of them was common knowledge, or at least easily accessible.

Paul

> On Sunday 14 July 2002 15:59, you 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.
> >
> > Anyone ever made something like this or know how it could be done? I
> > searched on Google, but got mostly nothing.
> >
> > Paul
>



This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.3 : Fri Aug 01 2014 - 13:48:05 EDT