⚡ Wimshurst Machine: Charging Leyden Jars and the Spark Rhythm (2D)

Front view of two counter-rotating sector discs feeding two Leyden jars across an adjustable spark gap. Set the crank speed, number of sectors, charge per pass, jar capacitance, leakage resistance, open-circuit voltage and gap, and see the jars charge, the sparks jump and the energy of each one. Plots show the charging curve, spark period against gap, spark rate against crank speed and spark energy against gap. Four in-page numerical checks.

2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install