Vandegraff Use

Roll up pieces of thin plastic plumbers thread tape into long snakes. Place the snakes onto the vandegraff an turn it on. See who's snake launches itself off the VG first.

Get every one to hold hands in circle to see how far you can transmit a spark to some one on the end.

Touch the VG and point your finger at someone to give them a spark. Ware insulated shoes then go over and touch some one to give them a spark.

At night time get some one to hold a fluorescent light tube at a distance. Point your finger at the VG to cause a spark which will cause the fluoro-tube to flash quite brightly over the distance. Amazing, with no wire connections at all.

Understand lightning and Tornadoes. In the darkness, place the fluoro-tube length ways above the VG and watch micro vortices (tornadoes) of plasma dance up and down the VG sphere and the tube. Watch as the top vortex on the fluoro-tube corresponds to the bottom vortex on the sphere. Watch as these vortices meet in mid air, a spark will jump to exchange a charge the way lighting does. You can now understand how tornadoes can form from the same magnetic/ electrical differences.

Pulse sparks from the VG onto the electrical contacts of the fluorescent tube. Watch the tube light the room brilliantly. Amazing, all with no wires attached.

Put a string through the centre of an aluminium can. Suspend the can at the rim of the sphere-bowl on the VG. Watch the can swing back and forth of its own accord. The swing can get quite large.

Get a round metal door knob and run an earth wire to ground or the VG motor mount. Place the door knob near the VG to attract large sparks onto the knob.

In a pitch dark room, place the fingers of both hands near the generator and watch a plasma fire stream from your fingers like a witch or warlock movie scene. The distance of plasma fire can get quite large from the VG.

Place nylon or plastic strips onto the vandegraff unit to permanently charge the plastic with extra electrons. This is the basis of electronic semi-conductor control gates for use with integrated circuits(IC's), diodes and transistors.

Place combinations of metals,charged nylon and magnets together an make a device that gives off permanent electrical pulses. Place these devices together to produce a useable self running type of electrical generator.