@captain0ldy0da All plasma globes in current use run on high-frequency AC at high voltages that usually cannot be felt--unless you touch one and open a contact point with a grounded metal object or another person at the same time and get a spark across the gap. Keeping all metal objects away from an energized globe can help. Holding a neon "flicker" bulb next to one can reveal how much electrical energy is really near one of these...
Very nice indeed, it looks similar to some pure argon I did a while ago at a very high pressure, but with a better power supply and the color is more pink than orange from the neon.
@teslasintern Thanks. Pure argon had too much resistance, so I thought the neon-signmaker trick of mixing 20% neon with 80% argon to improve the conductance and make a "cold-weather" argon mix for purple neon signs that still looks like pure argon would help keep my plasma driver from overheating. It also improved the total brightness of the image, and just I kept adding neon until it looked right. What you are seeing here actually contains more neon than argon.
FANTASTIC! Nice effect and I'll bet the camera can't show it as nicely as it appears to the eye!
I once had a 9" plasma in the 1980s called a "Nebula Ball" which had nearly identical pink & violet plasma streamers with sharp orange stars on the outer tendrils. It eventually lost some pressure and looked like a jellyfish! Good results for a globe of this size btw!
Thank you. The colors in real life are a mix of intermediate shades between warm fleshy pink and purple, and the glass has a bluish fluorescence. I started with pure argon and a hint of iodine to deepen the colors and kept blending in neon until it looked about right. It's running on a PVM300 from Info Unlimited.
we use these is science and take a swirly lighbulb (forgot the name) and hold the glass part of the lightbulb and it lights up :3 love it
aandhtacos 1 day ago
TOR patch 1.1
Tarunloko 1 month ago
love the psytrance
chacalmexico 1 month ago
I had a small one, I was touching it all like "Mwuhahaha" then I touched a metal dish and got a shock...
captain0ldy0da 2 months ago
@captain0ldy0da All plasma globes in current use run on high-frequency AC at high voltages that usually cannot be felt--unless you touch one and open a contact point with a grounded metal object or another person at the same time and get a spark across the gap. Keeping all metal objects away from an energized globe can help. Holding a neon "flicker" bulb next to one can reveal how much electrical energy is really near one of these...
StandingWulf 2 months ago
wow ive nerver seen one that big before
ilikecheesealot143 2 months ago
Those things sure are hypnotic! Thanks for the show :-)
jcmegabyte 1 year ago
Very nice indeed, it looks similar to some pure argon I did a while ago at a very high pressure, but with a better power supply and the color is more pink than orange from the neon.
teslasintern 1 year ago
@teslasintern Thanks. Pure argon had too much resistance, so I thought the neon-signmaker trick of mixing 20% neon with 80% argon to improve the conductance and make a "cold-weather" argon mix for purple neon signs that still looks like pure argon would help keep my plasma driver from overheating. It also improved the total brightness of the image, and just I kept adding neon until it looked right. What you are seeing here actually contains more neon than argon.
StandingWulf 1 year ago
@StandingWulf That really cool, if you kept record send me the formula on private message.
teslasintern 1 year ago
FANTASTIC! Nice effect and I'll bet the camera can't show it as nicely as it appears to the eye!
I once had a 9" plasma in the 1980s called a "Nebula Ball" which had nearly identical pink & violet plasma streamers with sharp orange stars on the outer tendrils. It eventually lost some pressure and looked like a jellyfish! Good results for a globe of this size btw!
nerodesign000 2 years ago
Thank you. The colors in real life are a mix of intermediate shades between warm fleshy pink and purple, and the glass has a bluish fluorescence. I started with pure argon and a hint of iodine to deepen the colors and kept blending in neon until it looked about right. It's running on a PVM300 from Info Unlimited.
StandingWulf 2 years ago
very nice purple hyperactive tendrils
Iluvbadgers 2 years ago