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Subject: Re: Electrostatic Toner Transfer

From: "cybermace5" <cybermace5@...>
Date: 2004-11-11

> Anyone interested in a collaboration can email me for a link to them.
> My website has a low bandwidth limit. What's the process to get
> approval to post them to the yahoo group archive? It's only 180KB
> at this point, but could easily get a LOT bigger.
> Then there's the obvious question, "Does anyone care? Should I just
> keep my ramblings to myself? Anyone wanna help?" Ok three questions.

If you need a place to host images like these, let me know. As long as
it stays related to technology and doesn't turn into a family photo
album, I can provide you with a subdirectory of my site.

> I need to go buy a sheet of glass and build a higher voltage power
supply.
> I've had two portable photocopy machines sitting on the floor for
almost a decade.
> Perfect for high voltage parts, rollers etc. I threw them both away
> two weeks ago. RATS!!!
>
> Anybody ever tried to rectify the output of a stun gun? AC just ain't
> gonna do it. Does make some impressive sizzling noises tho.
>
> Suggestions appreciated.


Stun guns only put out a few hundred volts. The stun effect is linked
to the pulsed nature of the output. Essentially it overloads and
exhausts the muscular nervous system IIRC.

Is 7,500 volts enough? Here's a generator that runs off a wall socket
and costs $11:
http://www.goldmine-elec-products.com/prodinfo.asp?number=G1783&variation=&aitem=1&mitem=2