Simple Electrostatic Motor

Build this high voltage motor from plastic pop bottles

by William J. Beaty           1994

• Electrostatic Bottle Motor plans & instructions
• Bottle Motor debugging, getting it to work
• Bottle Motor experiments and demonstrations
• Popbottle motor photo (80K GIF)
• Photo of operating bottle-motor (30K GIF)
• What's it good for?

Powering your bottle motor

• TV set as electrostatic generator
• Lenny R's PVC pipe generator
• M. Foster's Cheap High Voltage
• Negative Ion Generator as power-supply
• Van de Graaff electrostatic Generator
• General debugging notes for electrostatics
• Solving humidity problems for VDG machines
• Electrostatic Generator, a simple one (electrophorus)
• Kite-lifted Antennas
• Electrostatic Generator, Kelvin's waterdropper

Motors made by hobbyists

• Instructables: electrostatic turbine (Jefimenko knifeblade)
• Maglev cdrom e-motor UBAQT2 (youtube)
• The Amateur Scientist: electrostatic motors
• Book: Electrostatic Motors, Oleg Jefimenko
• Coaxial 2-bottl motor by John Chase
• Bob L's bottle motor
• Jefimenko-style Corona Motor and Poggendorf (in Deutch)
• Elektrostatische Motoren (in Deutch)
• Linear AC motor stack
• Naudin's Brushless e-motor
• R. DeFeo's super-simple motor

  Misc.

• Hints for electrostatic device builders
• Electrostatic Motors, C.L.Stong, Scientific American
• Sky-voltage antenna
• Electricity Explanation Articles, a large collection
• What is Electricity? The real answer! Finally!
• 'Static' Electricity page
• Van de Graaff page
• "Frictional" electrification
• Electrostatics Books
• Wimshurst machine
• Frictional Generator on lenyr's page

ELECTROSTATIC MOTORS, by Dr. Oleg Jefimenko, 1973 (new edition out! 2011)
All of Dr. Jefimenko's motors in detail, and also historical info on famous electrostatic motors of previous centuries.

Article: ELECTROSTATIC MOTORS YOU CAN BUILD (by Dr. Jefimenko)
Popular Science magazine, April 1971, May 1971
Dr. Jefimenko gives plans for various plexiglas and foil motors. He runs them from the clear-weather sky voltage, using a long wire and a balloon! Order these magazine backissues through the interlibrary loan program at your public library.

ELECTROSTATICS, by A.D. Moore
By the grand old man of electrostatics. Great book, has the Di-Rod generator construction project, large number of electrostatic demo devices for sci. class.
Find it in libraries. There's also a video.

Other ELECTROSTATICS BOOKS