Re: [SLUG] OT Air ionizers

From: Brian S. Armstrong (ba@ba.tzo.com)
Date: Mon Jul 15 2002 - 15:47:43 EDT


FWIW

http://www.geocities.com/~uwezi/electronics/projects/ionizer.html

-BA

----- Original Message -----
From: "Glen" <gurensan@tampabay.rr.com>
To: <slug@nks.net>
Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 1:16 PM
Subject: Re: [SLUG] OT Air ionizers

>
> Was this in that issue of Omni, too? --- ;)
>
> Glen
>
>
>
> On Sunday 14 July 2002 11:23 pm, you wrote:
> > 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



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