Recent content by cruxx

there are some really expensive uv lights.. well even the really cheap ones are not cheap from what i found but i bet the really expensive heavy duty ones would have no problem with more static.. probably the ones i can afford just aren't strong enough to handle it

thank you.. yes we are wearing safety glasses that i ordered when i ordered the first light plus both lights have a built in switch that turns them off if they are not pointing straight down .. even a little tilt shuts them off

ok i think maybe the plastic bag and the ebonite was just putting way to much charge into it all.. i stood there with both uv lights for a solid minute and no change at all in the tinsel... then i saw on a video you could use a pvc pipe and a brown paper bag.. so i tried that puts way less...

is it possible rubbing the ebonite on a plastic bag puts too much charge into the tinsel? cause it does seem to put a lot more than the wool did.. i mean they really shoot out..like sticking straight out i was able to scrounge up enough to order a different uv light off of amazon .. still...

Thanks everyone.. the humidy swings high and low here but is no higher now than it was when it was all working right at first i was thinking it was just cause the plastic bag put more static in than the wool.. the tinsel was sticking out more i mean.. but no matter how long he holds the light...

my son did a duality of light science fair project .. did tons of work.. still likes doing the experiments at home anyway.. first off his wool and ebonite rod stopped putting a static charge on his christmas tree tinsle that he has on the end of a piece of a metal hanger sticking out of a metal...

i got to see what i can afford when luckily this is stuff for the next school year.. but some of it will be with his christmas stuff..i wonder if a pipe wrapped in copper wire would word the same or similar to a thicker pipe?

i have a question.. i can't afford to buy the parts just to try it out but for the slow magnet through a pipe ... does it have to be a pipe? i mean would it work with 4 copper rods like put at the corners like an elevator shaft and the magnet being the elevator?

just want to thank everyone for everything here again. i will be digging deep into it all i promise just picked up another job and I've been getting a lot of overtime too so just no free time for now.. for when i do have time again if anyone knows any websites that have some of this stuff in...

i'm working a ton of hours right now but i just want to thank everyone again.. i will be reading all this and looking up everything that is over my head best i can i really appreciate all this input from everyone so much

thank you very much i'm running out the door right now got to go do some work.. i really really appreciate this and need to really look over it all good later on

thanks everyone there is a lot to think about here can't tell you how much i appreciate it

thanks again i really need to find stuff in laymans terms sometimes..to be honest i had to drop out of school pretty young to help support my family .. i just do physical labor.. i just have jobs.. he can do better than jobs he can have a career.. do things he likes rather than just things to...

thank you both so much.. he said something about wanting to do other experiments with it to show something about electromagnetism.. it was late last night he woke me up to tell me.. and this is not in my sphere of knowledge .. but he wants me to be involved with him in his passions and i want to...

if this is in the wrong place, i apologize. you guys helped me out before so i was able to not sound like an idiot to my son and helped us share time and interests together this year in 6th grade he did a great science fair project on the duality of light and did the double slit experiment and...