Talk:Kelvin water dropper

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[edit] Lacking description?

How are the rings made negative or positive in the first place? They must have a charge to begin with to start the system off- otherwise there would be no difference between the water droplets on either side and nothing would happen. Either way either the description is lacking- it needs to be added that the rings need to be intially charged or it needs to be stated how the rings become initially positive and negative on their own 81.179.187.5 20:10, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

I'm no expert, but this appears to work by amplifying the difference. So provided they don't start out at the exactly same charge they will migrate away from each other. --RadioElectric 21:15, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

RadioElectric is correct. One of the cans is already randomly positive or negative, and to put it simply, the Kelvin Water Dropper mearly amplifies such an effect. By the way, someone should verify the thing about droplets being better than continuous streams. I am not sure if it is true at all, but it is definitely not true for the video. I'm not going to do it myself because I'm lazy, but any volunteers? --Armaetin (talk) 08:15, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Link to video doenst work

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