Ramsey Electronics PG13 Manual de instrucciones

IG7 Page 1 Ramsey Electronics Model No. IG7 Have you ever wondered how those ion air cleaners work? Ever wonder why the air smells so fre

IG7 Page 10 When air is ionized during the corona effect, you will see a sharp point of purple on the end of the metal tip. This indicates that air is

IG7 Page 11 cation. In our case the terminal will be around 3 to 5 kV with the IG7. How do we reduce the potential energy of these charged ions to mak

IG7 Page 12 Believe it or not, there are always ions around you. They are created by nu-merous methods, most notably: radioactive decay, solar radiati

IG7 Page 13 RAMSEY “LEARN-AS-YOU-BUILD” ASSEMBLY STRATEGY Be sure to read through all of the steps, and check the boxes as you go to be sure you did

IG7 Page 14 Since this is a High Voltage product, we sincerely hope you put this together in a professional manner. This project will not work as well

IG7 Page 15 RAMSEY IG7 PARTS LIST Supplies  1 ...HVDC-1 7.5 kV Ion power supply  1 ...PC Board with 7 large holes  1 ...PC Board with 5 large hol

IG7 Page 16 ASSEMBLY Assembly of you Ion Cannon is pretty simple. It does however require a pretty hot soldering iron and some patience. Most of this

IG7 Page 17  4. Set aside the pipe and board assembly. We will now work on the nail (pin elements) assembly.  5. First thing first we are going to

IG7 Page 18  10. Install D1, the LED. Note that this is one of the exceptions to the rule, you want to leave the leads as long as possible! You want

IG7 Page 19  21. Now solder the final larger white wire of the Ion Generator to the bare pad provided on the back side of the nail board in the upper

IG7 Page 2 RAMSEY TRANSMITTER KITS • FM100B Professional FM Stereo Transmitter • FM25B Synthesized Stereo FM Transmitter •

IG7 Page 20 Parts Layout MAIN BOARD NAIL BOARD PIPE BOARD

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IG7 Page 22 EXPERIMENTS On a personal note; back when I was in Junior High School, I really wished kits like this were available. I always loved tinke

IG7 Page 23 ION CANNON Once the Ion Cannon has been assembled according to the previous direc-tions. We’ll need to find a suitable place to run the Io

IG7 Page 24 Lets try some fun stuff now. Take the small neon light included with your kit and hold on to one of the leads. Point the other lead toward

IG7 Page 25 mean there are no ions present, just that their potential is too low. The next experiment requires some objective observing. You will need

IG7 Page 26 Pinwheel (Corona Motor) The Pinwheel experiment is the old standby experiment that demonstrates ionic flow as well as Newton’s 3rd law of

IG7 Page 27 Pinwheel Template  12. Power up the Ion Generator, and watch the motion of the rotor! This demonstrates how ions can be used for propulsi

IG7 Page 28 This page has been left blank so you may cut the pinwheel template out of the manual without losing any juicy informa-tion!!

IG7 Page 29 TROUBLESHOOTING PROBLEM: The LED doesn’t light up. SOLUTION: Not much that can go wrong in this circuit. Double check your sol-der connec

IG7 Page 3 IG7 ION CANNON - ION GENERATOR KIT Ramsey Publication No. MIG7 Price $5.00 TABLE OF CONTENTS Safety Guidelines ...

IG7 Page 30 CONCLUSION We sincerely hope that you enjoy the use of this Ramsey product. As always, we have tried to compose our manual in the easiest

IG7 Page 31 The Ramsey Kit Warranty Please read carefully BEFORE calling or writing in about your kit. Most problems can be solved without contacting

IG7 Page 32 IG7 ION CANNON KIT Quick Reference Page Guide Safety Guidelines ...4 Ion Theory ...

IG7 Page 4 SOME SAFETY NOTES WITH THE IG7 Even though 7.5 kV sounds like a lot of voltage, and it is in relation to most other circuitry today, it is

IG7 Page 5 • NEVER EVER! charge capacitors unless you honestly know what you are doing! This increases the danger level astronomically! Even a small h

IG7 Page 6 ION THEORY What are ions you may ask, are they protons or electrons? Actually they are neither one, at least not electrons by themselves. A

IG7 Page 7 ment through the air is called ‘ionic flow’. Instead of the electron from the balloon floating through the air all by itself, it is “grabbe

IG7 Page 8 The previous diagrams show how ions are created by contacting two atoms together and thereby handing off an electron. If these atoms were m

IG7 Page 9 The diagram below shows a conductive tear-shaped object with a high volt-age field around it. The lines are called equipotential lines and