Hello.
I have the opportunity to experiment with various permaculture systems.
Recently, I started growing Shiitake mushrooms on the small scale.
Since contamination is a challenge for mushroom farmers, I started thinking if there is a way to pull spores and other contaminants out of the air using electrostatic forces.
I want to develop a scalable solution.
I would like to build a custom ionizer to solve this problem.
read that mushrooms use electrostatic forces to deploy spores from the fruit body.
This is why the fruit body has a hemispherical top, like a Van de Graaff generator, while gills or rods on the underside aid the repulsion of like charges.
For now, I would like to adapt one of these to charge plates with high voltage: https://www.ebay.com/p/12029149618
With so much voltage, a breakdown results in a spark that has almost no resistance.
Thus, over-voltage can quickly become over-current. Both are bad for the module.
What simple circuit do I use to protect this module?
How do I rectify such high voltage and turn it into voltage that can charge plates of an ionizer?
One day, I will build a CW voltage multiplier and connect the mushroom baskets to 'neutral' and have a HV+ and a HV- close by to collect all the charged particles that happen to be in the air, including the spores that my mushrooms would produce.
How would you solve this problem?
I have the opportunity to experiment with various permaculture systems.
Recently, I started growing Shiitake mushrooms on the small scale.
Since contamination is a challenge for mushroom farmers, I started thinking if there is a way to pull spores and other contaminants out of the air using electrostatic forces.
I want to develop a scalable solution.
I would like to build a custom ionizer to solve this problem.
read that mushrooms use electrostatic forces to deploy spores from the fruit body.
This is why the fruit body has a hemispherical top, like a Van de Graaff generator, while gills or rods on the underside aid the repulsion of like charges.
For now, I would like to adapt one of these to charge plates with high voltage: https://www.ebay.com/p/12029149618
With so much voltage, a breakdown results in a spark that has almost no resistance.
Thus, over-voltage can quickly become over-current. Both are bad for the module.
What simple circuit do I use to protect this module?
How do I rectify such high voltage and turn it into voltage that can charge plates of an ionizer?
One day, I will build a CW voltage multiplier and connect the mushroom baskets to 'neutral' and have a HV+ and a HV- close by to collect all the charged particles that happen to be in the air, including the spores that my mushrooms would produce.
How would you solve this problem?