I built a TRUE BLADELESS FAN

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#fan #dyson #bladeless

[PlasmaChannel]

“Okay so jay’s a douche, but he has good ideas” 😂 well spoken my friend.

Excellent build and results! Let the war of the [ionic] currents begin. My V2 will need to beat this.

[muhammadowais]

I think we should work on building it's outer shell first..
Then we should go over the noiseless jet

[adihq]

Video Idea:

What about a small jet engine (from a RC airplane) shaft connected to an electric generator? Calibrate it to run on ethanol and you´ll have a carbon free electric generator 🙂 - Also keep in mind that tomatoes are disgusting

[cwwisk]

The secret is airflow. The grids and cathodes need to become increasingly smaller in each stage. I thought criss-crossing the grids would be OK, but it results in turbulence. You also need to create an airfoil on the surfaces in order to achieve optimal airflow.

[Chwarg]

Would be interesting to see how it performs when all stages are encapsulated in a tube (so you do not loose any air flow to the sides).
Another idea would be to rotate every second stage by 90° to get more even static pressure across the surface area of the outlet.
In addition you could put a nozzle at the end of the outlet to increase air speed.

[EnderMalcolm]

One thing to probably note is that this will generate a lot of Ozone while it's running, probably best to continue your experiments with a fan in the window to circulate air. This is the same principle in which old air purifiers work.

[TheyCallMeHacked]

I guess the next step would be a true bladeless jet engine

[mattcabrera]

I love this guys goofiness, the outfit, the way he acts and speaks but it’s still in a way that teaches you stuff. Awesome channel (: stay true to yourself and keep doing what you love!

[gigabyteguru]

Maybe if you used grids in descending diameter, inside a cone like shell open on both ends. This might be enough to make use of the Venturi Effect to accelerate your airflow.

[valuxin]

Several tips to improve the fan: 
1. Use a high grain sandpaper instead of razor. It will create more "sharpy" surface on the wires and should improve the performance by 10-20%
2. Use aerodynamics optimized design for enclosure. First easy way to do this - close the sides of your fan. Secondly, you can use wing-like curved casing (like in duct fans) on the side where air gets in - it will create low pressure zones and will help to suck air in more easily.
With all this tweaks you'll go beyond 20m/s for sure.

P.S. Also, instead of rods, you can just use one drop shaped smooth copper piece to improve air flow. Or just make the rods drop shaped.

[ImmortanJoeCamel]

It's a great idea. Especially if you want to slowly dissolve what the fan is pointed at. Mind the ozone, Integza!

[loulous]

In order to improve your "bladeless fan" you should space the anode unequally from the cathode. the more you add a stage the more you need to space the anode from the cathode. it make sense because the particles are accelerate at every stage so at every stage they come in with an higher velocity. The same princip is used in the cern accelerator.
I hope this will help
Sorry for the possible grammar mistakes I'm not English

[CrimpingPebbles]

Biggest fan here, out of every dangerous episode, nothing makes me more nervous than that tie so close to power tools, stay safe my tuga friend!! Keep inspiring the next generation and entertaining us all 😊

[m.sierra]

The round Pipes actually introduce a lot of drag. Try to give them an airfoil design. The biggest amount of air resistance comes from the turbulence behind the tubes, that's why in the original image they are only round on one side and pointed in the other.

[docdaven]

IDEA#1: Instead of the thin wire going straight across, wrap the thin wire in a coil around a thin insulator about the thickness of a toothpick. (basically replace each thin wire with a coil of thin wire - to get more surface area). score the coils across with a sharp blade like you did for the wires on opposite sides perpendicular to the the plane of ionic motion and score it the direction of motion (don't score the back). This will cause the pointy fields to pull in more ions of air than a single wire (kind of like a dyson fan) to amplify the effect (for the positive ions). Basically, you will play around with the laminar flow.

[kevinashmore]

Fabricate a duct to direct the air and then add a Venturi similar to the Dyson to see if you can increase the air speed.

[ЕвгенийАвдеев-кн]

Technically, it is not only a bladeless fan but also a particle accelerator. That would be an interesting development :)

[benjamingoldschmidt]

Future video idea:

Improvements to the generator:
1. Use iron shavings on the wires to increase surface area
2. Use springs instead of straight wire
3. Make a loop of ionic generators so they cascade in such a way to get super high speed (ie infinite stages like a resonator)

[tjorvegro]

Try connecting the wire grid with the tubes of the stage before it. At the moment you are creating a backwards wind between stages. You increased the distance between the stages wich reduce it but you could stack them back to back if there is no voltage potential between the stages

[fartwrangler]

Love these guys who do all their shop work without ever putting on safety goggles.

Five years from now there are going to be a lot of Youtubers wearing eye-patches.