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By,Justin Carland,
Indar Lange,Ryan Matsui
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Overview• A Lifter is an asymmetrical capacitor which uses
High Voltage ( > 20KV ) to produce a thrust.
• Equivalent to a RC circuit.
• Lifters work without moving parts, flies silently, uses only electrical energy and is able to lift its own weight plus some additional load.
• Lifter is 3.7g and the distance between the wire and aluminum is 2.9cm
• Theories behind our lift– Ionic-Wind– Biefeld-Brown effect– Electrogravitics
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Synopsis of Lifter Topics
• The initial goal was to study the reasons why our lifter was able to oppose gravity and lift with no moving parts.– Shape/surface area (stability)– Wire and foil distance (arcing)– Wire type (consistent plate separation)– Resistors load
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Chapters of Lifter Project• Damaged power supply
– We think the polarity to the battery was inverted.
– Provide more protection to the circuit/power supply. Preventing surges or wrong polarity.
• Collecting data and more efficient way to collect, with more accurate data.
• Any outstanding problems and suggestions for future improvements.
• Problems collecting accurate data…
• Spark gap adjusted fixed lift
• Blew on lifter, to finally get it to lift. After that it always lifted
• Lowered the load resistance from 10M ohms to 4M ohms
• Construction of the Lifter is very tedious.
• Having the right distance between connections so the lifter works properly.
• Efficiency on building new lifters
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Power Supply• Input = 12DC
• Converts to 35kV
• Regulates current (AC)
• Variable Spark gap
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Problems collecting data
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What we have done
• We have constructed multiple working lifters.• Recently troubleshot and repaired our power
supply.• Collected data on our working lifters to
compare and better understand their operation.
• Examined the effects of ionic wind
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Gantt Chart
Gantt Chart
5-Oct 19-Oct 2-Nov 16-Nov 8-Dec
Full Working Lifter Completed
Testing & Troubleshooting Completed
Experimenting Completed
Engineer and Improve Completed
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DEMO
• If you would look carefully up front, we will now demonstration of our project.
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Questions?
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THE END!