plasma speaker

[ThoRQ88]

that want bigger capacitatirs

[th3muff1nman]

that's so tight!! how do u make that?

[samssoftwareuser]

try midi. and why is it yellow?

[weirdo556]

its yellow because i had it arcing on glass electrodes. and id try midi if i had a nice midi controller. perhaps incorporating mosfets to make it more efficient.

[GeeksRus95]

Well know if you put salt on the electrodes it makes the arc turn yellow!

[samssoftwareuser]

what is wrong with it?

[mumish13]

With ignition coil or what???? the ignition coil works at low frequency. test with a flyback transformer as a high freq plasma speaker!

[rhett99rebel]

mr roboto! lol

[fredontube]

Not hifi and difficult to maintain but fun!

[wafflols]

well, i was messing with it half the time, but i could get it to hold the arc as long as the terminals were sharp and i left them close together. but here i was using glass terminals (very bad idea)

[jeabo0adhd]

is new mane for it could be "singing fire"

[theblackhand2]

That's pretty neat. I could see a fully developed version of your concept being used as an omni-directional tweeter.

[weirdo556]

actually, there are commercial plasma tweeters, you just dont see them around anymore.

[eightballpl]

great job! amazing :-)

[weirdo556]

woot, it got on hackedgadgets

[Deathknightzs]

nice video man were did u learn to make that

5/5

[campfirestring]

lol good song to use for this. domo arigato...

[weirdo556]

my amplifier is not a tesla coil. if i drove it at the resonant frequency and modulated the frequency from there, i guess it could be a sstc (solid state tesla coil). but its not, so it isnt. id soon like to build a sstc though.

[weirdo556]

acoustic data: sounds crappier as the sound gets softer. i dont have enough money/time to build a voltage controlled oscillator, so the output oscillates with the input. whenever there is a weak input, there is a weak output. a VCO would solve this, succesfull ones have been made this way, and i hear they make very high quality tweeters, as there is almost no inertial mass.

[weirdo556]

current consumption: id probably go in the range of about, 8-12 amps, at about 36 volts. most of which is dissapated in heat in the transistors due the inefficiencies of linear amplifiers.

[weirdo556]

i wont post a video of it burning my house down because id feel like an idiot managing that with only 1 inch sparks. the rest of the tesla coil enthusiasts would laugh at me :(...along with the fact that i would be an idiot for burning down my house...my camera with that...

[TheBigBentley911]

next video will be about how you burned down your house :)

[justinmcburney]

sounds like shit but its cool must consume at least 10 000 volts to do that not exactly usable with an amplifier unless your amplifier is a Tesla coil.

[Skyoneer2007]

how many volts is that

[Donaldo]

How much current does this consume? Do you have any acoustic data?

[prometheus53189]

Cool!! Where can I get plans for this, I would really like the ones you used.

[LocoMiguel]

Domo arigato, Mister Roboto.