Sunday, December 27, 2009

What's a good way to just ballpark/estimate the electric charge of a static-generating object?

We've got this machine called a ';Vandergraff generator';, and it creates static electricity. The problem is, I have no idea how much electric charge it generates, not even close. Is there a way I could get a ball park guess for it?What's a good way to just ballpark/estimate the electric charge of a static-generating object?
Hello D... Ball-parking measurements with electricity are sorta hard but just so i can say i tried ...It takes roughly 1000volts to make electricity jump from a good source to ground at 1mm . So if your standing 1 meter away and the spark jumps out to you. You just got 1000 x 1000 volts..that a million reasons to get the best answer you can from the E.....Good luck with the generator ...from the E...What's a good way to just ballpark/estimate the electric charge of a static-generating object?
Charge is capacitance times voltage.

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