Our experimental measurements indicated the presence of a small, but persistent force in the scale of mgf, mainly for high values of the high voltage applied such as 6 kV on the asymmetrical capacitor, with maximum value for the force 278.83 mgf, for the maximum voltage applied (up to 6 kV) on the device sample.
The high voltage was provided to the capacitors by the high-voltage power supply ( see Fig. 1 for a scheme). When such a power supply was switched on, the two asymmetrical capacitors began to rotate and accelerate quickly up to high speeds.
Some different independent experiments [ 7] performed with asymmetrical capacitors as lifters using air as dielectric seem to indicate that such an effect can be possible, that is, the devices present anomalous variations of their weights or even levitation when they are subjected to the regime of high voltage applied.
In this study, the authors analysed an anomalous force observed in asymmetric capacitors, working in high electric potentials. From a lot of experimental measurements performed in their asymmetric capacitor, they detected real variations of the device inertia.
In case of asymmetric capacitors, the dipolar force always points from the large to the small electrode considering that the electric field between them converges to that same direction. The convergent electric field forces the electric charges of dipoles to move more in the convergence direction than the opposite direction.
Asymmetric capacitors differ from symmetric capacitors (i.e. double layer capacitors) in that the material of one of the electrodes is replaced with materials possessing faradaic, or pseudocapacitive, properties .