So, you'd like to be able to zap people with lightning bolts.
Hell, who wouldn't?
But you aren't lucky enough to be a mallet wielding Norse lightning god*, which means you're looking for another route.
Well, rather than have people start playing around with the mains** I've dug out three videos for you.
The first is a demo of the things you can do with a Van De Graaff generator - which includes making miniature lightening bolts......
.... The next two are how to build a VDG generator. By the way, I'm not taking any liability if you hurt yourself doing this. But if you apply a smidge of common sense, and take your time, you shouldn't.
Oh, and never, ever, use one of these on someone with a pacemaker.
A friend of mine built one of these for a project at university, and he had lots of fun zapping the rest of us.
Ba***rd!
Still I got him back with a Gauss gun (I'll get to how you build those, trust me).
*Unless you are one, in which case: Great work with the thunderstorms! Please leave my flat alone.
** Never EVER dick about with the mains, especially in the UK. It's not the voltage or the current that is especially bad, although they aren't nice. What's bad is: The mains current oscillates on a frequency that's very close to the frequency that the nerves controlling your heart work on. So a mains shock doesn't just cause burns, IT JAMS THE SIGNAL THAT KEEPS YOUR HEART BEATING.
Leave it alone unless you're very confident that you know what you're doing.
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