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Now we get to start assembly of the ionic wind generator. Test fit the disk sandwich with the pins in the end of the tube. Mark with a line of holes around the gap in the top of the cooler ¼ inch below the lid to allow for system to draw in air. Don’t drill extruded acrylic. Most acrylic pipe is extruded and lacks the strength that cast acrylic would for instance. Use a hot soldering iron to melt the holes in the tube and lid. |
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Next up is to strip 10 inches of our second wire and wrap it around the copper tube assembly. Twist the copper ends together tightly so insure good contact. One thing we found was applying a little solder to the twist and contact points helped maintain a good connection. |
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Next we need to install our grounding module into the tube. We have two tips here that will help. Notch the outer plate so the wire can escape from inside the housing. Secondly don’t glue it until you read the next step. |
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This is an important step!!!
Insert your grounding tube into the rear of our cooler. With all due caution that high voltage deserves wire your cooler to a power source. If you look closely in this picture you will see 2 blue white arcs between our corona emitters and the copper tubes. This is bad mmmkay. If this occurs POWER DOWN and back the grounding assembly an 1/8th of an inch out of the tube and try again. Do this until it stops arcing and runs for 5 minutes without arcing. Once this is done feel free to seal the back with hot glue. |
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