van da graf?

hay woundering if its possible to power a robot with van da graf generators?

Possible yes, practical

Possible yes, practical no.

Van De Graaff generators use a low/medium voltage motor to accumulate very high static voltages on a top-load capacitor. Semiconductor electronics are often designed to operate at less than 12V, and even ‘high voltage’ elements are only capable of tolerating a few kilovolts at best. On top of that a Van De Graaff generator only produces a very small amount of current, so you’d need a very large one to generate the current required to power even a modest robot.

At the end of the day, the power feeding the motor would be a much more suitable supply than anything likely to come out of a Van De Graaff.

cool

this is exactly the answer i was looking for thank you