The Basic Transdimensional's Lifter Experiment

By Jean-Louis Naudin
created on October 10th, 2001 - JLN Labs - Last update July 10, 2002
All information in this page are published free and are intended for private/educational purposes and not for
commercial applications

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.

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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
Kilo ohms/10 Watts resistor is connected in series 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 uses a common fly-back driver circuit with
two 2N3055 power transistors as a push-pull oscillator. A common fly-back 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.

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 A close view of the HV Tripler

For additional info about the 30KV Tripler,

see also : http://www.mathematik.uni-marburg.de/~kronjaeg/hv/hv/src/TVcasc/index.html

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 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.

See also :

Simple High Voltage Generator: Low Voltage DC In, up to 30 KV Out by Samuel M.

Goldwasser
Fly back 20kV from 24V by Jochen Kronjaeger
Improved super-cascade: now over 100kV! by Jochen Kronjaeger
A High Voltage Fly back generator ( up to 70 KHz ) by Andrs Estban de la Plaza
A High Voltage Capacitive Discharge Generator ( 850 Hz ) by Andrs Estban de la Plaza
A High Voltage Advanced Generator ( 20 KHz ) by Andrs Estban de la Plaza
Interesting and easy to build High Voltage generators diagrams by Liviu Vasiliu
How to make HV DC pulses with a Ruhmkorff or a Tesla Coil ( in French )
How to make 60 KV with two car ignition coils by Jochen Kronjaeger
The Lifter successful replications - Experimenters LogBook

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 careful 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.

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ATTENTION !!!, Faites preuve d'une extrme prudence, Vous manipulez ici de la Haute-Tension,
TOUJOURS arrter puis dconnecter votre alimentation ou le moniteur et dcharger la sortie Haute
Tension travers une rsistance de 10Kohms/2W avant toute manipulation.. Les plans et les
conseils prsents ici, ne sont pas destins des dbutants. Vous devrez procder avec soin et
prudence et avoir l'habitude de manipuler de la Haute-Tension avant d'envisager une telle exprience !
Si vous dcider de raliser cette exprience, ceci est votre propre risque et je dcline toute
responsabilit en ce qui concerne les ventuels dommages matriels ou physiques causs.

See the video demonstration of Basic Lifter

To see the videos, the free downloadable RealPlayer is required

Click on the picture above to see the video ( 701 Kb )

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The Lifter1 works also very well with this 30KV power supply

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It is also possible to use the THT power supply output from an old PC Color monitor ( see the
photo above )