Has anyone tryed this before?

[M4rk4nth]

How to make a corona discharge ozone generator:

Get a glass tube maybe 1/4 inch in diameter.

Put aluminum foil on the outside of the tube, for the middle half of it's length.

Put a very thin metal wire, no isulation, inside the tube, from the end with the rubber

hose to the air pump.

One end of the wire is inside the part of the tube with the foil.

Other end of the wire come out back end of tube.

Get a fish-tank air-pump, and connect it with rubber hose to the glass tube to push air

thru the tube.

The wire will need to be poked thru the wall of the rubber hose to get outside where you

can connect to it.

Get an alternating-current (AC) high voltage supply, limited to 1 milliamp by a large

resistor inside.

Be careful not to get shocked. Get an adult to check your high voltage supply and wiring.

Connect the supply between the foil and the needle.

We want no bright sparking to happen,

We want a very small buzzing sound from the glass tube to be heard. This is high-voltage

corona discharge in air.

I think the air that comes out of the open end of the glass tube should have fairly strong

ozone in it.

It might help to dry the air as well as you can before it goes into the glass tube.

Anyone try this I got this of the web.

[rockfish]

care to share the URL?? so that we can go and take a look .. sound interesting .. and dangerous too..

[djviper]

omg its very dangerous ... remember to wear rubber shoes while doing that...

[M4rk4nth]

Ok tryed it... Singapore's air is just to humid... I end up turning the Silica Gel Beads Pink to fast. Have to reheat them in oven to many times...

any way The other down side is you can't control the amount of ozone going into the skimmer. think I spike my ORP to high. Gonipora really closed up for a while.

Stop the thing as spent to much time rechargin the air drying agent and worried about the humming sound coming from it.

Should others want to try URL is here.

http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/chem03/chem03254.htm

Sidenote: to get the glass tube I cut a testube under water with a circular saw.