I made a 30,000 volt generator!

 I recently was very intrigued by high voltage and its many amazing and cool applications. like controlling fire or water, making wind, wireless energy, EMPs, and so much more!! If you want to see a professional do these stunts, go watch some of the awesome videos made by Jay on Plasma Channel. One of the things he makes, is a very simple circuit called a voltage multiplier. And this thing is insane! Using it to charge myself up to thousands of volts allows me to do cool things like make levitating tinfoil, use the force to make things fly to my hand, or just watch cool sparks! And before you proceed I'd like to inform you that although this is high voltage and should be taken seriously, it is still somewhat safe. the current flow of even hundreds of thousands of volts from this thing could not kill you. And believe me, I have shocked myself many of times with these high voltages (200,000 volts max) and all it does is make you jump, and maybe scare you a little bit, and then your right back with it. There just simply isn't enough amps to do harm to you. Just wanted to make sure we were all on the same page safety wise. Now, back to the voltage multiplier, (I'm just going to call it a voltiplier. Much easier to type.) Jay makes his own on his channel, but doesn't break it down very well. So I'll describe how it's made and a basic explanation on how it works, but before I put you to sleep with more long, and frankly boring paragraphs, let's hype up with some pictures of the voltiplier in action! The first one is an inch long spark I got after adding on to the circuit a bit for some thicker bolts of electricity. 

disregarding the massive mess my lab (room) is in, that is one big spark! The sparks are soooo fun to make! especially after the work you put into building the circuit for it. So, the whole thing requires only two parts! Both of them are visible in the picture. It is only diodes and capacitors rated for at least 15kv (15,000 volts), simple! I bought both the capacitors and diodes on amazon for a decent price, although you can probably search for a cheaper price, here's the ones I bought. Capacitors here, diodes here, and if you want the perf board (The tan board with holes) to wire them up on, I also bought that on Amazon here. Once you buy the capacitors you wire them up by putting half the capacitors you are going to use, in a chain. so that one of the capacitors wires connect to the one before it and the one after it like so,

(I'm using 6 total for simplicity) then do the same for the other half of the capacitors

Capacitor bank is done! Now time to add the diodes. The diodes are going to go across both sides of the chains you just made. On the diodes, you should see a gray line (depending on the kind you got) and that's the side you want facing the previous capacitor, 

first, wire the diode, the side with the gray line, to the first capacitor on the right side of the capacitor bank and then to the second wire on the left side like so, 

Then, add another diode from the wire you just connected the non gray side to, to the second wire on the right side (gray side pointing to the left side connection) like this,

and the repeat those two steps for the whole chain, however long your chain is. and in the end, you have diodes all the way up your capacitor bank in a zig-zag pattern like this,

Now the circuit is done! all that's left is to power it, I use an arc lighter that I purchased from, you guessed it, Amazon. This is the one I bought for the project. Take all the circuitry out of the the lighter and you should end up with some thing like this. I did add the wire that comes after the tape on the circuit.

You will need two of the wires that come out of that purple box. My arc lighter they have two sets of wires, and you'll need two that arc to each other. On this one, the ones that arc to each other have same colored wires, I used the 2 red ones and left the 2 white ones alone. For easy hooking up and de attaching, I added a little extra wire, but that's not a necessary step. Just hook one of the wires to the capacitor with no  diode attached and the other to the first capacitor on the other side that does have a diode attached like so.

then attach a wire from ground (the capacitor not attached to a diode).  Attach the ground wire below the wire that comes from the arc lighter, as you might blow up your arc lighter if you attach it above, like I did twice. and now you're done! all that's left is to hold the wire near the last lead, (the last capacitor in the right side chain that's only attached to one diode) and push the button on the arc lighter and you got yourselves a show! 

these are some of the pictures of sparks I got from the voltiplier, of course the more you add to yours, the bigger the sparks are going to be. There are so many cool things you can do with your new voltiplier, check some of them out on Jay's channel. Thanks and come back for more science!

video of me charging myself up with the voltiplier to attract a piece of fabric to my hand. this works because I am charged with tons of positive energy (thanks to voltiplier) and the fabric (as with most things around us) is negatively charged, and as you know opposites attract, and, now you have the force! thanks science 😎.