@serialkiller2476 12 inch diameter Blue lightning globes that are this frantic can only be bought from the artist William P. Parker in Waitsfield, Vermont, or via his helper YouTube user Lightningman2. They cost around $3,000 USD. Wayne Strattman with Strattman Design in Boston could make one similar but with much simpler controls for close to $1K USD. It's a custom-made museum-display grade sculpture, not a retail item.
@serialkiller2476 The Ebay item is a 4 inch diameter globe coated with blue phosphor so you get a fuzzy blue lightning surface effect, like the Luminglas discs The glass is cloudy and looks like it has talcum powder on it, so you can barely see inside it, The glass globe is small enough to be held inside your open hand. It was mass-produced in China and the power supply has about a 30-day warranty. The plasma globe in my video is the size of a basketball, and the glass is completely clear.
I have one of these :D it doesnt hurt if you touch it, but if u keep ur finger in the same place for a long time it gets warm, @rogantu , i wouldnt do that if i were you......
@ShuffleInMotion There is no sound sensor on this model. I'm manually adjusting the power level and changing the plasma image by touching the globe in time to the music. It's a "hands-on" plasma performance--pun intended.
@jimmy229962 You can get a painful but nonlethal shock from touching the exposed electrode from of one of these energized devices after you break it. I highly recommend AGAINST doing that...
@H1widA1 No age requirement, but supervision is suggested, because it is an electrical device using high voltage, and if you grab one of these and a grounded water pipe or a radiator at the same time you can get an unpleasant, but non lethal shock
@StandingWulf thank you so much! people on other videos thought I was just joking, they were calling me a troll....but thanks a lot i'll definetly get my cousin this for christmas :)
@TheLotsofgames It was part of a bulk purchase of surplus plasma globes from the American Science and Surplus Center in 2003, and I had to add the electronics.
@grarosting Yes. Both the blue color and the frantic lightning effect are typical of xenon gas. I have reason to believe this globe contains a very high percentage of xenon. (over 99%)
@StandingWulf Thank you for the reply...I have searched how a Plasma ball works and i didn't find any place that actually says how it is made by simple words can u send me some links or explain me in a few words how it works??? People from the comments would learn how plasma ball works too if u could do that . Thank you very much
@grarosting Try the article at Wikipedia-dot-org: Use the search term: Plasma Globe. The Comments boxes are too small for a decent explanation on how plasma globes work, so I sent an explanation via the YouTube Message service.
@LegendzModZ I don't shink so, at least not while in human form. It's ionized gas under partial vacuum. Most plasma globes are about 0.1 to 0.5 atmospheres, so connecting with one would simply pull air out of your mouth, and the high voltage would probably not be comfortable. The plasma would tend to eat you instead. It would be like trying to kiss an electric eel and a vacuum pump at the same time.
@LegendzModZ In the X-Men: First Class movie there is a scene where Shaw force-feeds what appears to be a high-density, high-temperature plasma to Darwin. Darwin does not survive the experience...
@st4ticblu3 I have learned the hard way not to have any USB-device cables and my answering machine anywhere near one of these--the high-voltage power supply runs on a frequency very close to the data frequency of USB devices. Running USB data-transfer operations in close proximity to energized plasma globes is not recommended...
@soma0112 Probably because it's easier to say and sounds better than "Gas discharge lamp". By definition any gas sample more than 80% ionized in considered a plasma, and low-temperature plasmas exist in fluorescent tubes and neon signs, so the arcs seen inside the globe really are low-temperature plasma created by radio-frequency excitation. Most plasmas are far hotter and more energetic than in a plasma globe, but if the arcs did get much warmer they would melt the glass.
Very interesting indeed!. The intensity of the lightening strike spread reminds me of how I understand planets functioning - technically planets, stellar objects (stars), and even galactic cores (a group/team of massive stars, and much more). They all seem to be designed to clear out clutter in the atmosphere/space around them - in a very hot and flashy manner - much like this blue lightening plasma ball. Clearing anything that does not belong or support sustainable life. Planetary Completion.
@YOUNGASS56 You would have to either contact Bill Parker (William P. Parker) in Waitsfield, Vermont. (he's in the phone book/directory listing for Waitsfield, VT), or try via his assistant, YouTube User Lightningman2. This edition is called "Modern Frequencies". The signed authentic article costs about $3K. There are cheaper copies, but they are not the same quality and are not quite this frantic.
@dmoskva It's a consumer product made and approved for use in the USA in 1984 that looks a lot more dangerous than it actually is. The UV output is not negligible and causes my T-shirt to fluoresce at high power levels. The RF can cause problems with nearby USB-port enabled digital devices with induced currents when it is held too close (because it operates within the USB port data frequency range). The video was made in 2004. My hands are still ok, and so is the rest of me.
@puppyfish0508 I found it without any electronics mixed in with a truckload of secondhand glass in a surplus shop and restored it with replacement electronics. The American Science and Surplus Center sold out their supply of used plasma globes in 2004. I have been told the original Artist for this piece (called Modern Frequencies) is BIll Parker, who resides in Waitsfield, Vermont USA and can still make these for around $3K USD.
@rogantu Yes, but that kind of voltage in air at full pressure only creates a tiny rose pink plasma flame about 3/16 of an inch in diameter that extends about 1/4 of an inch. These things cannot run without a special gas mix under partial vacuum.
@aidanmcmahon616 Almost any version of plasma globe will do this, from the least expensive to the large museum-grade pieces. It can also damage the glass in the globe and lead to permanent failure if done long enough
@TheTerminator248 You could do something like that with a lot of Luminglas flat plasma displays. (Those are the ones made from phosphor-coated glass beads sealed into glass disks, which now come in square and triangle shapes). You could tile a ceiling with plasma tiles if you wanted.
@xadam2dudex It's a perceptual illusion--I just selected some music that sounded like a good match for the movement rate and frantic arcing for this globe, plus a bit of freehand coaxing (with my barely visible hand) to the beat of the music to make it look like the plasma is in sync with the sound.
@superaxel991 Bigger globes can also be found outside museums. There are 15 inch diameter plasma globes available from a retailer in Vancouver, BC and on eBay. I'm playing with a couple of 15 inch globe blanks with some test gas mixes right now just for fun, but they need over twice the volume of gas and bigger power supplies to fire them up.
@SASNIGHTCRAWLER There is no real heat--there is a metal connector in the center feeding high voltage into the gas that ionizes the gas mixture and the glass sphere acts like a partial electrical ground. Your body and your hand make a better ground. These globes can be refilled if a glassblower welds a new fill tube connection or a glass vacuum valve onto the globe stem. Several of my other videos are with refilled globes.
@Murder0redruM: My experiments tell me this globe probably contains a high percentage of xenon gas, and xenon-filled gas discharge tubes usually light up with a blue color. Bill Parker added something to it to enhance the blue color, but I don't know what makes it an intense blue. It's also generating some UV (ultraviolet) light, and my digital camera is turning the UV into a blue color, so it looks slightly less blue in person than in the video. (It lights up blacklight posters)
@ratatui096 It depends on the size and quality of materials used in the globe. Mass-produced 4-6 inch dia. globes made with cheap components and color TV phosphors can sell for around $30, but they might last only 6-12 months. Custom-made 12 inch diameter globes made with lab-grade Pyrex and high-purity gas mixtures can sell for closer to $800-1K each. The top-quality museum-display items made with frequency-swept programmable drivers that last for 30 years can go for $3K.
@Robontain1945 It's in the description: V Six by Fluke from the Wipeout videogame soundtrack. Not certain if the Wipeout version it comes from is Wipeout XL or some other version, as music came from a friend who plays Wipeout.
@RisefromyourGRAVE The setup for this video used a plasma driver borrowed from a Lumisource Sculpted Electra (pigtail-shaped) lamp that ran at about 1.7-2A @12VDC input power or 48 Watts max. The other non-modified 12 inch Bill Parker Light Sculptures I have use a 0.25A or 0.5A fuse at 120VAC or about 30 to 60 watts actual power consuption.
@jench78 None that I am aware of--vacuum-airlocks are expensive and time-comsuming to install. The largest size air valves I have connected to plasma globes are only big enough to accomodate a small fly.
@EpicPWNAGEable Glad you like it, and thanks for the comment. Who says modern art can't be fun? To me this one is like fireworks in a bottle without the mess, and I don't have to worry about the neighbors reporting me to the police when I fire it up...
@2013Epsilon I live in an urban area where neighbors do not appreciate the noise made by fireworks and have concerns about fire hazards if the display is not done in a designated area for an advertised festival or holiday.
@skate02384 The light show shuts down and all you get is a tiny purple corona discharge effect under the electrode cap where the high voltage wire connects to the cap. In air at normal pressure the corona discharge is only about 3/8 inch long. The partial vacuum is not high enough for a TV picture tube style (high vacuum) implosion, and the noble gas mixture is harmless. The heavy grade glass tends to crack rather than break. Expensive, not very dramatic, and nor very hazardous.
@tomattosfutleimierda It isn't my formula, so I don't know for certain. Pure xenon gas tends to show sharply-defined blue-white arcs in samples I have seen, but the blue color is nowhere near this intense. One of my sources have said that Bill Parker uses top secret ingredients and special additives to enhance colors in his gas mixtures. His U.S. Patent data has several formulas that are mostly xenon with a small amount of a halogen such as fluorine, chlorine, bromine, or iodine
@IvBeAtBoXeRvI Yes. The plasma color varies with noble gases used in the mix. Pure xenon is blue-white, krypton is white, argon is purple, helium is pink, neon is red-orange. Color combinations (too numerous to list here) can be made from mixing the gases, and from including other non-noble gases and/or volatile color-promoting additives.
@OfficialDjEata Some gas mixtures just like to form tendrils that spiral around as they move, especially mixtures heavy in krypton and xenon. My best theory is that it's because electrons follow a spiral path in the EM field generated by the AC current in the plasma streamers, and it's probably the earliest or first ionization streamers that flow out from the electrode forming a spiral path for the rest of the arc, like lightning bolts following the first ionization trail in a storm.
@StandingWulf Hmm, quite interesting, and with my existing knowledge i was actually able to understand that =-D I feel Smaarrt! lol But um, i just dont get ur example of the lightning because i was not aware of that before. lol
@OfficialDjEata Natural (high current) lightning bolts follow small ionization pathways, or invisible trails where the high voltage has just broken down air resistance and a tiny amount of current has just started to flow. Once these electron trails start, a large amount of current follows down the ionized pathway causing large amounts of heat and light. Barely-visible plasma tendrils I have observed in underpowered plasma globes suggest a similar phenomenon, but with much lower power levels.
I had a dream in where there was a plasma bomb that exploded and had that exact same color and it exploded in the sea and there was a big hole reaching till the centre of the earth
@D4NI3LGONZALEZZ Only the white lightning globes make any sound by themselves, and it's only a soft high-pitched ringing noise from the ions hitting the glass at a high power setting Thanks for confirming the music I picked seems to match the "personality" of the globe set for maximum activity. Please feel free to check out some of my other videos for other sound and light shows.
This is a Modern Frequencies light sculpture by Bill Parker. Bill and I built this two years ago and thought I should video it and post it. I just finished building one today in fact. This particular unit is a museum grade unit and sells for around 2500.
@narclester Please feel free to believe whatever you like, but this light sculpture is real. You can see one like this in the Arnold Schwartenegger movie "The Running Man" in a Ready Room scene with Jessie Ventura. I don't have the computer skill to fake videos. I just make movies of art I think other people might like to see.
@seththeslayer1 That would probably break something besides the glass. The outer shell on this globe is about as thick as on one of those glass fishing net floats and it weighs about 5 lbs. The outer shell can be dropped on a hard floor about 3 feet without breaking it.
@darkevil88188 I haven't learned how to throw one at anybody yet. I think they also look a bit like what Jar-Jar Binks people were tossing at droid armies in one of the Star Wars movies, and they really can disrupt some electronic devices if they get too close... Thanks for your observation.
@N2B814 During the video I manually turned the power setting up to the point where the xenon in the globe begins to go into full frantic mode all on its own.
@MrMistery101 The Bill Parker power supplies use about 50 watts for a 12 inch globe. Smaller globes take less power that varies roughly with the volume of the globe. Running one of these 24/7 is not advised because it may shorten the lifetime of the electronics and degrade the gas mixture.
@gaussman08 If you are asking why the plasma arcs here differ from the typical globes I would say this globe has a gas mixture with a very high xenon content. Pure xenon forms very thin, fast-moving plasma arcs. Most common plasma globes contain less than 10% xenon mixed with other gases. Most other plasma globe gases (except for krypton) tend to form softer-focus plasma tendrils.
Xenon is not what makes THIS Bill Parker Light sculpture unique.The problem with doing simple gas mixes is that even noble gases can form stable solid compounds that redeposit on the glass over time. With Xe being $20 per liter and damn hard to get, it is a rather expensive and inefficient way to generate a very active plasma. Balancing pos and neg single valance ions with high vPs also works. Anyway, Bill Parker's lab is a seriously sophisticated photonics lab. You'd be impressed!
I 'am not a child, but i can say
RASENGAN or CHIDORI!!!!!
VIRUSProh 6 days ago
RASENGAN!!!
darthsidiousify 1 month ago 3
@darthsidiousify naruto fan me to
nyancatFLY123 2 weeks ago
@darthsidiousify btw its looks more like a chidori
nyancatFLY123 2 weeks ago
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If someone could combine a plasma ball and a bong, they would be legends in the book of cool.
SpiritsAndPhantoms 1 month ago
where did you get the plasma ball
supersaiyan100ful 1 month ago
@supersaiyan100ful It came from a science surplus dealer as part of a bulk purchase in 2004. The plasma globes sold out shortly afterward.
StandingWulf 1 month ago
@StandingWulf can i buy it somewhere? if so how much it costs
serialkiller2476 1 week ago
@serialkiller2476 12 inch diameter Blue lightning globes that are this frantic can only be bought from the artist William P. Parker in Waitsfield, Vermont, or via his helper YouTube user Lightningman2. They cost around $3,000 USD. Wayne Strattman with Strattman Design in Boston could make one similar but with much simpler controls for close to $1K USD. It's a custom-made museum-display grade sculpture, not a retail item.
StandingWulf 1 week ago
@StandingWulf im looking on ebay i can find 1 for 10 $ what is that ?
serialkiller2476 1 week ago
@serialkiller2476 The Ebay item is a 4 inch diameter globe coated with blue phosphor so you get a fuzzy blue lightning surface effect, like the Luminglas discs The glass is cloudy and looks like it has talcum powder on it, so you can barely see inside it, The glass globe is small enough to be held inside your open hand. It was mass-produced in China and the power supply has about a 30-day warranty. The plasma globe in my video is the size of a basketball, and the glass is completely clear.
StandingWulf 1 week ago
@StandingWulf this is for disco not for my room i was thinking about buying it but its no good to put in room?
serialkiller2476 1 week ago
@serialkiller2476 I'm moving this discussion to the YouTube message board--the Comments section only allows for short questions and answers.
StandingWulf 1 week ago
I have one of these :D it doesnt hurt if you touch it, but if u keep ur finger in the same place for a long time it gets warm, @rogantu , i wouldnt do that if i were you......
PinkPenguinLover101 2 months ago
is that thing noise activated?
nice music BTW
ShuffleInMotion 2 months ago
@ShuffleInMotion There is no sound sensor on this model. I'm manually adjusting the power level and changing the plasma image by touching the globe in time to the music. It's a "hands-on" plasma performance--pun intended.
StandingWulf 2 months ago
what if you smash it then touch it
jimmy229962 2 months ago
@jimmy229962 You can get a painful but nonlethal shock from touching the exposed electrode from of one of these energized devices after you break it. I highly recommend AGAINST doing that...
StandingWulf 2 months ago
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do you have to be certain age to play with one?, because my cousin is 7 and he wants one
H1widA1 3 months ago
@H1widA1 No age requirement, but supervision is suggested, because it is an electrical device using high voltage, and if you grab one of these and a grounded water pipe or a radiator at the same time you can get an unpleasant, but non lethal shock
StandingWulf 2 months ago
@StandingWulf thank you so much! people on other videos thought I was just joking, they were calling me a troll....but thanks a lot i'll definetly get my cousin this for christmas :)
H1widA1 2 months ago
0:25 the plasma got pissed...
maganreggie6 3 months ago
Where the F did you get it from
TheLotsofgames 3 months ago
@TheLotsofgames It was part of a bulk purchase of surplus plasma globes from the American Science and Surplus Center in 2003, and I had to add the electronics.
StandingWulf 3 months ago
That is gorgeous!
SuperibyP 3 months ago
I think the audio waves are vibrating the glass, so makes it look like its going with it.
theango45 3 months ago
Is it just me or was that plasma ball "pulsing" in time with the music?
Lesuey07 3 months ago
@Lesuey07 I was touching the globe with my fingers in time with the music to make it look that way during most of the last half of the video.
StandingWulf 3 months ago
looks sweet, too bad you couldnt doit with black gloves on - it could be used at a club or something
PrimeTargetSecurity 3 months ago
does this have to do with xenon!?
grarosting 4 months ago
@grarosting Yes. Both the blue color and the frantic lightning effect are typical of xenon gas. I have reason to believe this globe contains a very high percentage of xenon. (over 99%)
StandingWulf 4 months ago
@StandingWulf Thank you for the reply...I have searched how a Plasma ball works and i didn't find any place that actually says how it is made by simple words can u send me some links or explain me in a few words how it works??? People from the comments would learn how plasma ball works too if u could do that . Thank you very much
grarosting 4 months ago
@grarosting Try the article at Wikipedia-dot-org: Use the search term: Plasma Globe. The Comments boxes are too small for a decent explanation on how plasma globes work, so I sent an explanation via the YouTube Message service.
StandingWulf 4 months ago
The Wipeout XL soundtrack made me into who I am today.
numbstateofennui 4 months ago
52 PEOPLES ARE JEALOUS
TheWalktroughts 5 months ago
Oh WTF?Oh shiiiit.....
Ziashka1997 5 months ago
lol psytrance in the background :D
DownFlex 5 months ago
can you eat plasma
LegendzModZ 5 months ago 9
@LegendzModZ I don't shink so, at least not while in human form. It's ionized gas under partial vacuum. Most plasma globes are about 0.1 to 0.5 atmospheres, so connecting with one would simply pull air out of your mouth, and the high voltage would probably not be comfortable. The plasma would tend to eat you instead. It would be like trying to kiss an electric eel and a vacuum pump at the same time.
StandingWulf 5 months ago 12
@StandingWulf oh i was just to about to eat some
LegendzModZ 5 months ago
@LegendzModZ In the X-Men: First Class movie there is a scene where Shaw force-feeds what appears to be a high-density, high-temperature plasma to Darwin. Darwin does not survive the experience...
StandingWulf 5 months ago
@StandingWulf Lol I know this isn't my conversation but I watched that movie today :D
kddo82 5 months ago
When I was a kid I had one of these. I could turn it sideways and put it on the cable box. It unscrambled the Playboy channel. lol
st4ticblu3 5 months ago 5
@st4ticblu3 I have learned the hard way not to have any USB-device cables and my answering machine anywhere near one of these--the high-voltage power supply runs on a frequency very close to the data frequency of USB devices. Running USB data-transfer operations in close proximity to energized plasma globes is not recommended...
StandingWulf 5 months ago
Plasma should be nearly 10.000 °C. Then Why do they call it "plasma" ball? O.o
soma0112 6 months ago
@soma0112 Probably because it's easier to say and sounds better than "Gas discharge lamp". By definition any gas sample more than 80% ionized in considered a plasma, and low-temperature plasmas exist in fluorescent tubes and neon signs, so the arcs seen inside the globe really are low-temperature plasma created by radio-frequency excitation. Most plasmas are far hotter and more energetic than in a plasma globe, but if the arcs did get much warmer they would melt the glass.
StandingWulf 6 months ago 2
@StandingWulf Thanks, didn't know that yet. Still sounds strange but I can live with that :D
soma0112 5 months ago
@soma0112 fun fact, florescent light bulbs are the plasma of helium and other gases.
xxxxNexxusxxxx 5 months ago
i once had a dream where i was in one of these and when it turned on i woke up...
BungholeMcGee 6 months ago
take care
flowmeterdirectory 6 months ago
Very interesting indeed!. The intensity of the lightening strike spread reminds me of how I understand planets functioning - technically planets, stellar objects (stars), and even galactic cores (a group/team of massive stars, and much more). They all seem to be designed to clear out clutter in the atmosphere/space around them - in a very hot and flashy manner - much like this blue lightening plasma ball. Clearing anything that does not belong or support sustainable life. Planetary Completion.
gamantram 6 months ago
Super
AZS156 6 months ago
So beautiful... and hypnotising....
lurklover 6 months ago
were do u buy these please respond
YOUNGASS56 7 months ago
@YOUNGASS56 You would have to either contact Bill Parker (William P. Parker) in Waitsfield, Vermont. (he's in the phone book/directory listing for Waitsfield, VT), or try via his assistant, YouTube User Lightningman2. This edition is called "Modern Frequencies". The signed authentic article costs about $3K. There are cheaper copies, but they are not the same quality and are not quite this frantic.
StandingWulf 7 months ago
I WANT ONE OF THESE.
MickehDaHuskeh 7 months ago
i accidentaly broke one of this when it was turned on, nothing happened to me, so its safe, but i got fucking scared lol
aneraxz 7 months ago
HOLY SHIT, at one point i can see the bones in your hand... are you sure its safe to handle?
dmoskva 7 months ago
@dmoskva It's a consumer product made and approved for use in the USA in 1984 that looks a lot more dangerous than it actually is. The UV output is not negligible and causes my T-shirt to fluoresce at high power levels. The RF can cause problems with nearby USB-port enabled digital devices with induced currents when it is held too close (because it operates within the USB port data frequency range). The video was made in 2004. My hands are still ok, and so is the rest of me.
StandingWulf 7 months ago
@dmoskva it's actually just where the skin touches the ball :P
MoonOcarina 6 months ago
EMP!!!!!!!!!!!!
jacketedtangent 7 months ago
Where did you buy this!!!???
puppyfish0508 7 months ago
@puppyfish0508 I found it without any electronics mixed in with a truckload of secondhand glass in a surplus shop and restored it with replacement electronics. The American Science and Surplus Center sold out their supply of used plasma globes in 2004. I have been told the original Artist for this piece (called Modern Frequencies) is BIll Parker, who resides in Waitsfield, Vermont USA and can still make these for around $3K USD.
StandingWulf 7 months ago
has anyone unscrewed the glass on one of these and turned it on?
rogantu 8 months ago 16
@rogantu Yes, but that kind of voltage in air at full pressure only creates a tiny rose pink plasma flame about 3/16 of an inch in diameter that extends about 1/4 of an inch. These things cannot run without a special gas mix under partial vacuum.
StandingWulf 8 months ago
@rogantu i wish i could
MrKennycheese 7 months ago
@rogantu
I think the glass is also used to contain the gas Argon, which is what makes the blue effect.
LukasNZ69 7 months ago
@rogantu it would be a waste since its pretty much a lightbulb the glass breaks gases leaks out you are left with a electric rod :\
crud41 6 months ago
@crud41 in other words you can make a sword of Electrocution?
rogantu 6 months ago
@rogantu pretty much except the one getting electrocuted is you :D
crud41 6 months ago
@rogantu you can't unscrew the glass, it's molded into the base.
joeyg2525 5 months ago
@joeyg2525 That's why God made glass breakable.
numbstateofennui 4 months ago
@rogantu yes. Shit goes everywhere. Especially to metal.
Hayden1911 4 months ago
@rogantu i have and i STRONGLY DONT RECOMED IT it caught my carpet on fire the zaped the shit out of me but my budy laughed so it was all good
MrPirateSir1 4 months ago
@rogantu it works because there is gas inside of the glass ball, and if you take it off the gas will come out and it wont work
dmandude34d 2 months ago
@rogantu yes, its nothing special.
mrpussums 6 days ago
WHY DID YOU CATCH ZEKROM AND PUT HIM IN THE SHPERE ???
rompehuevos3000 8 months ago
put some change ontop of one of those and hold your finger very close to the coin, it arcs to your finger
aidanmcmahon616 8 months ago
@aidanmcmahon616 Almost any version of plasma globe will do this, from the least expensive to the large museum-grade pieces. It can also damage the glass in the globe and lead to permanent failure if done long enough
StandingWulf 8 months ago
Has anyone ever thought of having a plasma ceiling?
TheTerminator248 8 months ago
@TheTerminator248 You could do something like that with a lot of Luminglas flat plasma displays. (Those are the ones made from phosphor-coated glass beads sealed into glass disks, which now come in square and triangle shapes). You could tile a ceiling with plasma tiles if you wanted.
StandingWulf 8 months ago
At the end it looks like the thing's about to fucking explode
UEMstudios 8 months ago
is the music causing the globe's actions like a synchronized light show or is that just something u added to the video ?
xadam2dudex 9 months ago
@xadam2dudex It's a perceptual illusion--I just selected some music that sounded like a good match for the movement rate and frantic arcing for this globe, plus a bit of freehand coaxing (with my barely visible hand) to the beat of the music to make it look like the plasma is in sync with the sound.
StandingWulf 9 months ago
@ 0:36 is orgasms
carrionpvp 9 months ago
I love it!
Absolutely Fantastic Plasma Globe!
It's great to see such high level globes like this.
Keep up the good work.
PlasmaTronics1 9 months ago
im freaking out!!! (@)__(@)
Guranga93 9 months ago
CHIDORI!!! XD
BlaCkR0SsArY 9 months ago
@BlaCkR0SsArY Rasengan!
Arashikato 8 months ago
Thats a huge plasma ball. I saw your hand and saw how small it was compared to the ball. Cool plasma ball though!
superaxel991 9 months ago
@superaxel991 Bigger globes can also be found outside museums. There are 15 inch diameter plasma globes available from a retailer in Vancouver, BC and on eBay. I'm playing with a couple of 15 inch globe blanks with some test gas mixes right now just for fun, but they need over twice the volume of gas and bigger power supplies to fire them up.
StandingWulf 9 months ago
thats so cool
rafi4240 9 months ago
@SASNIGHTCRAWLER There is no real heat--there is a metal connector in the center feeding high voltage into the gas that ionizes the gas mixture and the glass sphere acts like a partial electrical ground. Your body and your hand make a better ground. These globes can be refilled if a glassblower welds a new fill tube connection or a glass vacuum valve onto the globe stem. Several of my other videos are with refilled globes.
StandingWulf 10 months ago
o.o..... i want one xD
coolbluemidnite 10 months ago
ws that from gex on the 64?? and i want this:3
SRB2Pheonix 10 months ago
what would happen if you brake the glass?
gogo9712 10 months ago
@gogo9712 The lightshow shuts down completely. Plasma globes like this one only work with a special gas mix and a partial vacuum.
StandingWulf 10 months ago
I want one in my room :D
oOoDPartyPeopleoOo 10 months ago
how come its blue?
Murder0redruM 11 months ago
@Murder0redruM: My experiments tell me this globe probably contains a high percentage of xenon gas, and xenon-filled gas discharge tubes usually light up with a blue color. Bill Parker added something to it to enhance the blue color, but I don't know what makes it an intense blue. It's also generating some UV (ultraviolet) light, and my digital camera is turning the UV into a blue color, so it looks slightly less blue in person than in the video. (It lights up blacklight posters)
StandingWulf 11 months ago
i had one and it smashed, i was too scared to turn it on... it has to be done though.
MrPlumblord 11 months ago
how much do these cost??
ratatui096 11 months ago
@ratatui096 It depends on the size and quality of materials used in the globe. Mass-produced 4-6 inch dia. globes made with cheap components and color TV phosphors can sell for around $30, but they might last only 6-12 months. Custom-made 12 inch diameter globes made with lab-grade Pyrex and high-purity gas mixtures can sell for closer to $800-1K each. The top-quality museum-display items made with frequency-swept programmable drivers that last for 30 years can go for $3K.
StandingWulf 11 months ago
what is the song?
Robontain1945 11 months ago
@Robontain1945 It's in the description: V Six by Fluke from the Wipeout videogame soundtrack. Not certain if the Wipeout version it comes from is Wipeout XL or some other version, as music came from a friend who plays Wipeout.
StandingWulf 11 months ago
Whats the power consumption on something like this?
RisefromyourGRAVE 11 months ago
@RisefromyourGRAVE The setup for this video used a plasma driver borrowed from a Lumisource Sculpted Electra (pigtail-shaped) lamp that ran at about 1.7-2A @12VDC input power or 48 Watts max. The other non-modified 12 inch Bill Parker Light Sculptures I have use a 0.25A or 0.5A fuse at 120VAC or about 30 to 60 watts actual power consuption.
StandingWulf 11 months ago
this on a salvia trip xD
Rousland1 1 year ago
Is there a place where I can get one with a kitten-sized hatch in it?
jench78 1 year ago
@jench78 None that I am aware of--vacuum-airlocks are expensive and time-comsuming to install. The largest size air valves I have connected to plasma globes are only big enough to accomodate a small fly.
StandingWulf 1 year ago
this reminds me of s4 league
TheMSGod 1 year ago
@TheMSGod me2 hehehe
Robertooo015 1 year ago
Watch Out, Chuck Norris is coming.
McDunkable 1 year ago
@EpicPWNAGEable i think you got some problems man :P
bangadesh 1 year ago
@EpicPWNAGEable Glad you like it, and thanks for the comment. Who says modern art can't be fun? To me this one is like fireworks in a bottle without the mess, and I don't have to worry about the neighbors reporting me to the police when I fire it up...
StandingWulf 1 year ago
@StandingWulf Your neighbors would report you??
I used to live next to a cop, and she would come over, and watch them with us...
Guess i live in a way more laid back area.
2013Epsilon 1 year ago
@2013Epsilon I live in an urban area where neighbors do not appreciate the noise made by fireworks and have concerns about fire hazards if the display is not done in a designated area for an advertised festival or holiday.
StandingWulf 1 year ago
@StandingWulf That really sucks... I live out more in the country.
2013Epsilon 1 year ago
1:05 that just looks so wrong ..
EmilSM64 1 year ago
i want to know what would happen if the glass broke
skate02384 1 year ago 2
@skate02384 The light show shuts down and all you get is a tiny purple corona discharge effect under the electrode cap where the high voltage wire connects to the cap. In air at normal pressure the corona discharge is only about 3/8 inch long. The partial vacuum is not high enough for a TV picture tube style (high vacuum) implosion, and the noble gas mixture is harmless. The heavy grade glass tends to crack rather than break. Expensive, not very dramatic, and nor very hazardous.
StandingWulf 1 year ago
@skate02384 i can tell u it happend with me :S
Boom 0,000001 sec shutdown all :D
RemixerNL 1 year ago
@skate02384 It Zooms Out And Then Goes Back Into The Middle I Did It xC
therealLUKESWORLD 1 year ago
What would happen if you took the glass off and then turned it on?
StErOiDxTiTs 1 year ago
why these rays are blue ?
tomattosfutleimierda 1 year ago
@tomattosfutleimierda It isn't my formula, so I don't know for certain. Pure xenon gas tends to show sharply-defined blue-white arcs in samples I have seen, but the blue color is nowhere near this intense. One of my sources have said that Bill Parker uses top secret ingredients and special additives to enhance colors in his gas mixtures. His U.S. Patent data has several formulas that are mostly xenon with a small amount of a halogen such as fluorine, chlorine, bromine, or iodine
StandingWulf 1 year ago
@StandingWulf wow thanks dude :D
tomattosfutleimierda 1 year ago
@StandingWulf So you mention xenon (noble gas) would different noble gases produce different colours?
IvBeAtBoXeRvI 1 year ago
@IvBeAtBoXeRvI Yes. The plasma color varies with noble gases used in the mix. Pure xenon is blue-white, krypton is white, argon is purple, helium is pink, neon is red-orange. Color combinations (too numerous to list here) can be made from mixing the gases, and from including other non-noble gases and/or volatile color-promoting additives.
StandingWulf 1 year ago
we ... piye carane gawe koyo iku..??
iswahyudiedogawa 1 year ago
@StandingWulf Why is the super mega ultra beam making pink/purple spirals on the glass?
OfficialDjEata 1 year ago
@OfficialDjEata Some gas mixtures just like to form tendrils that spiral around as they move, especially mixtures heavy in krypton and xenon. My best theory is that it's because electrons follow a spiral path in the EM field generated by the AC current in the plasma streamers, and it's probably the earliest or first ionization streamers that flow out from the electrode forming a spiral path for the rest of the arc, like lightning bolts following the first ionization trail in a storm.
StandingWulf 1 year ago
@StandingWulf Hmm, quite interesting, and with my existing knowledge i was actually able to understand that =-D I feel Smaarrt! lol But um, i just dont get ur example of the lightning because i was not aware of that before. lol
OfficialDjEata 1 year ago
@OfficialDjEata Natural (high current) lightning bolts follow small ionization pathways, or invisible trails where the high voltage has just broken down air resistance and a tiny amount of current has just started to flow. Once these electron trails start, a large amount of current follows down the ionized pathway causing large amounts of heat and light. Barely-visible plasma tendrils I have observed in underpowered plasma globes suggest a similar phenomenon, but with much lower power levels.
StandingWulf 1 year ago
I had a dream in where there was a plasma bomb that exploded and had that exact same color and it exploded in the sea and there was a big hole reaching till the centre of the earth
MrCJWarden 1 year ago
AT FIRST I THOUGHT THOSE SOUNDS WERE COMING FROM THA BALL I WAS LIKE WTF
D4NI3LGONZALEZZ 1 year ago 31
@D4NI3LGONZALEZZ Only the white lightning globes make any sound by themselves, and it's only a soft high-pitched ringing noise from the ions hitting the glass at a high power setting Thanks for confirming the music I picked seems to match the "personality" of the globe set for maximum activity. Please feel free to check out some of my other videos for other sound and light shows.
StandingWulf 1 year ago
@lighningman dude shut up we get it you dont have to post this like 50 times
masterboby1 1 year ago
Can you build me one please.:)
tatunkha 1 year ago
@tatunkha Sorry, but I don't have the skill to do that, and I do not have any items in my collection I wish to put up for sale.
StandingWulf 1 year ago
This is a Modern Frequencies light sculpture by Bill Parker. Bill and I built this two years ago and thought I should video it and post it. I just finished building one today in fact. This particular unit is a museum grade unit and sells for around 2500.
lightningman2 1 year ago
its fake
narclester 1 year ago
@narclester Please feel free to believe whatever you like, but this light sculpture is real. You can see one like this in the Arnold Schwartenegger movie "The Running Man" in a Ready Room scene with Jessie Ventura. I don't have the computer skill to fake videos. I just make movies of art I think other people might like to see.
StandingWulf 1 year ago
@StandingWulf "You can see one like this in the Arnold Schwartenegger movie"....
Schwartenegger!
"Schwarte" means crackling, fat tome....
MucusFelidae 1 year ago
@MucusFelidae Typing error: Arnold Schwartzenegger, movie actor and current Governor of California
StandingWulf 1 year ago
@narclester You can buy something like this at walmart for about 5-20 dollars depending on size, maybe more.
TheJostika 1 year ago
imagine if you cracked this on someone
seththeslayer1 1 year ago
@seththeslayer1 That would probably break something besides the glass. The outer shell on this globe is about as thick as on one of those glass fishing net floats and it weighs about 5 lbs. The outer shell can be dropped on a hard floor about 3 feet without breaking it.
StandingWulf 1 year ago
StandingWulf is correct, the Walmart stuff are real thin neon light bulbs. These unit that you see here are Museum displays
lightningman2 1 year ago
i must watch it
KingPlayerx 1 year ago
i want to put ants in thee and see what happens next.
aelita12345678910 1 year ago
holy shmet its Rasengan V4
darkevil88188 1 year ago
@darkevil88188 I haven't learned how to throw one at anybody yet. I think they also look a bit like what Jar-Jar Binks people were tossing at droid armies in one of the Star Wars movies, and they really can disrupt some electronic devices if they get too close... Thanks for your observation.
StandingWulf 1 year ago
cool it plays music too!
XmojotronX 1 year ago
How does yours go into hyper drive at 0:37?
N2B814 1 year ago
@N2B814 During the video I manually turned the power setting up to the point where the xenon in the globe begins to go into full frantic mode all on its own.
StandingWulf 1 year ago
@StandingWulf Mine plugs into a wall outlet. *darn*
Thanks for explaining, and for uploading.
N2B814 1 year ago
anybody know what the energy consumption of these things is? i want one, but dont want to increase energy consumption...
MrMistery101 1 year ago
@MrMistery101 The Bill Parker power supplies use about 50 watts for a 12 inch globe. Smaller globes take less power that varies roughly with the volume of the globe. Running one of these 24/7 is not advised because it may shorten the lifetime of the electronics and degrade the gas mixture.
StandingWulf 1 year ago
this is what happens when im angry!!!
XboxSongProductions 1 year ago
thumbs up if you want one
atp7797 1 year ago 123
man, Wipeout had the best sound track.
kantastisk 1 year ago
what make this rays be different of the common ones ?
gaussman08 1 year ago
@gaussman08 If you are asking why the plasma arcs here differ from the typical globes I would say this globe has a gas mixture with a very high xenon content. Pure xenon forms very thin, fast-moving plasma arcs. Most common plasma globes contain less than 10% xenon mixed with other gases. Most other plasma globe gases (except for krypton) tend to form softer-focus plasma tendrils.
StandingWulf 1 year ago 19
@StandingWulf the color is 4 the xenon too ?
gaussman08 1 year ago
@gaussman08 The blue color is generated from xenon gas.
StandingWulf 1 year ago
@gaussman08 Xenon gas is providing the blue color.
StandingWulf 1 year ago
@StandingWulf how much percentage in that?
Seanog24 1 year ago
@Seanog24 It's over 99% xenon.
StandingWulf 1 year ago
Xenon is not what makes THIS Bill Parker Light sculpture unique.The problem with doing simple gas mixes is that even noble gases can form stable solid compounds that redeposit on the glass over time. With Xe being $20 per liter and damn hard to get, it is a rather expensive and inefficient way to generate a very active plasma. Balancing pos and neg single valance ions with high vPs also works. Anyway, Bill Parker's lab is a seriously sophisticated photonics lab. You'd be impressed!
lightningman2 1 year ago
damn this is sooo sexy
Damaruth 1 year ago