Greetings, if you were linked here directly, please click here to look at my other projects which include Lasers, Rockets and Radio Controlled Helicopters.

These videos were taped by a friend and converted to PC format. Most of them were taken on the same day. The setup is a bit of work to get together and working right so it does not happen often.

Please watch and enjoy these videos. By the way, Flouro #2 is not the same as Flouro #1 so check them both out.

Disclaimer: I in no way suggest that people do experiments like this, the energies involved and the hazzards are very real and can be deadly!  This was done under controlled circumstances with all pneumatic controls set a distance away from the cap discharge device.  We also had large amounts of metal(junk cars) to place ourselves behind to avoid flying debris.  On top of that, the people involved are experienced with safety around high voltages, and have good communications between each other during the proceedures.

The capacitor used for these experiments was a surplus 10kV at 170uF energy storage cap, the energy stored in this capacitor is

                 cap      volts         volts
Joules= .000170(10,000 x 10,000)/2 =  8500           1 joule = 1 watt for 1 second          
                                
Peak energy in watts is  Joules/Seconds   Example:   8500/.0001 =  85,000,000 Watts

And no, I have no idea on the pulse width for this setup at this time.  :)