Not smarter but I agree - carpet/silk wiper on a revolving drum would do, but Mythbusters uses copper screen to make their Van de Graaf.george wrote:The point of the carpet/silk scarf wiper is to make the drum apparatus itself into a Van de Graaf generator.
It will not build up much potential, because of the slow speed, but it shouldn't take much emf to adhere atomized paint to the bullets.
With out a ground wire to the carpet, the effect would eventually stop, since there would not be a consistent flow of electrons into the carpet, through the wire.
Someone smarter, help me out here.
Along the gulf coast a sealed, climate controlled enclosure may be needed to enhance efficiency for the powder coating. (small window air conditioner to reduce the humidity)
Mythbusters Van de Graaf
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