How to build and replicate yourself the Lifter1

Experiment By Jean-Louis Naudin

created on October 10th, 2001 - JLN Labs - Last update January 11, 2002

All informations in this page are published free and are intended for private/educational purposes

and not for commercial applications

Your Lifter1 is now ready for testing, you need only to connect a HV power supply

which is able to give about 30-40 KV at 500uA. Th HV positive pole is connected to

the thin wire and the negative pole to the aluminum sheet.

BE CAREFUL, USE EXTREME CAUTION !!!, this device use High Voltage,

ALWAYS switch off the input and discharge the output to the ground through

10k/2W resistor before touch it. These plans are not intended for the inexperienced.

User of this document should be very carefull and experienced in High-Voltage

electronics to try anything out ! If you do it the risk of any results is just yours. I take no

responsibility of anything that might happen.

Ready to Launch ? see below :

The Lifter1 works very well with a simple 30KV power supply ( see the details and

diagram )

You will find below all the details and diagrams for building and test yourself the

Transdimensional's Lifter experiment.

The Basic Lifter is a very light weight device, only one upper frame is built and the

aluminum sheet must be very thin. This is a very fun experiment which worth to

be replicated.

The Basic Lifter is maintained on the ground base with 3 thin nylon threads to

avoid that it escapes to the ceiling...

The Basic Lifter remains very stable above the ground while the power supply is

energized. A 330 Kohms/10 Watts resistor is connected in serie with the HV

Output to limit the current flow.

This High Voltage power supply used is able to generate up to 25-30kV DC Output

from a 12-24v DC input. With a fully adjustable DC input power supply (0-

24V/4A), it is possible to adjust the HV output between 5 to 30kV. This HV power

supply use a common flyback driver circuit with two 2N3055 power transistors as

a push-pull oscillator. A common flyback transformer from an old TV/monitor can

be used, the transformer HV output is connected to a 30kv Voltage tripler which

commonly used in all color TV monitors.

In the Basic Lifter experiment the DC Input of the HV Power supply is 15 V @ 2.3

A.

A close view of the HV tripler

For additional infos about the 30KV Tripler,

see also : http://www.mathematik.uni-

marburg.de/~kronjaeg/hv/hv/src/TVcasc/index.html

If you have some difficulties to find the 100pF/10 KV capacitor, the diagram above

works also well.

Don't forget that the Pin D is not connected in this case.

It is also possible to use the THT power supply output from an old PC Color

monitor ( see the photo above )

The Lifter1 Experiment

Conseils pour alimenter votre Lifter - par Claude Dupr

Advices for Powering a Lifter

Email : JNaudin509@aol.com

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