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  • I don t know were do you live and what you use als information,Here in Holland many years ago they use to say the same .Did you look what i told you ? Ozone is not an oxidant .Doe s not help fire ,for example .And the ozone layer ? I jave experience with that more than 40 years.Yes can irritate but nothing more .Consultate the American Army antyany virus -bacteria-fongus apart of toxic gases etc .I saw the evolution of this in the media with the years.Look LOS ALAMOS OZONE  -FINISH

  • IF YOUR DIVICE PRODUCE ALSO OZONE (LIKE SHOULD BE IF THAT IS REAL PLASMA) CONECTING THE TESLA C. TO AN AMP WHO IS REPRODUCING WHITE NOISE _THAT IS AN EXTRAORDINARY MEDICINAL MACHINE .ONE FOR TO HAVE ALWAYS IN HOME .

  • @kbr7ly1 are you insane? ozone is a serious oxidant.

    "Even very low concentrations of ozone can be harmful to the upper respiratory tract and the lungs. The severity of injury depends on both by the concentration of ozone and the duration of exposure. Severe and permanent lung injury or death could result from even a very short-term exposure to relatively low concentrations"

  • Does the plasma arc cause ionization of the air that would cause health problems if not used in a highly vented environment? You can't beat the speed of sound reproduced without any moving diaphragms...Plasma rules as far as reproduction of mid-range to high frequency bands!

  • @AudioFileZ WHAT YOU SAID DOES NOT HAVE THE MINIMUN SENSE .OZONE IS PRODUCE IT FOR THE LIGHTINGS OLSO .FOR TO CREATE THE OZONE LAYER...IS INCREDIBLE YOU DONT REMEMBER A TWETER (IN THE MEDICINAL CASE ARE IMPORTANT THE SUPERIOR ARMONICS)AND IN YOUR CASE ARE IMPORTANT THE INFERIOR ARMONICS.(LOW FRECUENCIES)

  • @AudioFileZ YOU ARE A DELIRANT ! WE ARE NOT TALKING OF SOUND ANY MORE HERE - ARE FRECUENCYS IN THE SPACE AROUND THE DIVICE .THE FRECUENCYS ARE SO HIGH .SO SMALL BAND ,THEY CAN INTERACT WITH THE MICROCOSMOS (VIRUS-GAS MOLECULS ETC)

  • What devilry is this?

  • Thanks, i was being facetious ;)

  • Do you have any schematics? as all my 555 based plasma speakers keep blowing MOSFET's

  • @Alex1M6 - Get stronger MOSFET's or tone down your power a tad. You can also make these with a PWM IC, but you use MOSFET's as well, but might not kill them as easily.

  • @Alex1M6 First of all use TL494. Secondly - voltage on gate should be 1V, after receiving a stable arc u can increase it.

  • @Kanc1erz I made a half-bridge now. 1v on the gate!? wouldn't that make the MOSFET operate in the linear region?

  • Do you have the plans to build this? Amazing video

  • how much did this cost you?

  • This could be the ultimate in "Low Mass".

  • what circuit you did use ?

  • Metallica - Ride The Lightning

  • Dood, How do I make subs with this?

  • @yanasitta You can't. Well, you can, but it's unfeasible. You *want* mass with a subwoofer, to drive the air. This is massless; the air is itself driven by ionised air. That means it has incredibly high damping and low response time, but can't move a huge amount of air. It doesn't need to, because high frequency sounds carry more energy. But low frequency would be pretty well impossible.

  • Oh.. I can't get enough for seeing the beat in the plasma. Most other guys contraptions in youtube don't give much bass as this does. :)

    I have an suggestion: I know the circuit has some base frequency at rate it's firing the arc. Instead of modulating the plasma frequency - what about modulating the intensity of the arc?

  • i made a flyback plasma speaker too, but i added a musicall interrupter that i created, it gives a really amazing effect, pulsing with the square wave song input, giving a really loud distortion! really similar as drsstc (like arcattack tesla coils), here it is playing dr who's theme: /watch?v=H5z4xEy1NQc

    thanks ;DD

  • 17 people got electrocuted by this thing.

  • are you kidding me....that is so cool on-a-whole-nother-level, but there is noway i would by a plasma speaker...the power bill would be off the chain

  • @timetec How is volume modulated? Through current levels? Along the same lines, what is the "top end" for volume? I'm assuming that there wouldn't be the natural distortion/sound breakup that you get with standard speakers when you overdrive them

  • Wickedly awesome. Like tesla coils, but better.

    

  • Very.........bright. Reminds me of my Grados, 'cept way brighter.

  • Anyone know of the bass potential of plasma?

    

  • @Theoatob a plasma subwoofer ? - yes, in theory possible, but would require masses amounts of power to obtain a very long, high current arc. ie very unstable and difficult to control. This has decent bass down to below 200Hz as you can hear. ;)

  • @timetec Ahh i see. Well lets hope too see them I imagine that it has the potential to produce sound of better clarity than conventional speakers. I look forward to the day when rigs have plasma bass bins :D

  • @timetec I know it's late. But Plasma has too little particles to make a bass sound. It can not move air in that mass. So it can't generate the bass frequency.

  • @timetec couldn't we use some sort of sheiling, possibly something of the same polarity surrounding the arc 360 degrees around to keep it in line and controlled?

  • This is awesome, Im blown away for sure.

  • i need th scematic/bule print can you send me them thanks

  • does that use up alot of power?

  • @DeutschAutos this one uses not more then 150W of power. Well... that's a lot if u count that its sound power is equivalent to earphones

  • @xKuznetSx I'm guessing most of the energy goes into the thousands of degrees of heat and electromagnetic radiation produced by the arc.

  • @benjwgarner I think you read this on wiki, well this one is different. The arc is cool because of the low amperage, but still efficiency is very low, about 0,5-1%, arcs just don't move air very well =)

  • IS AWEOSOMEEEE

    

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  • Now how to make a plasma subwoofer

  • pls send a schematic or pcb layout! pls, pls. its a very cool stuff. I made one, but its better. pls send me schematic : nagy.peter88 (at) index.hu

  • In soviet russia guitar solos kills you

  • Love dream theater sound bad ass awesome

  • My mind has been fucked 17 different ways. I love science.

  • will that plasma cut through your fingers if you touched it?

    does it give you an electric shock?

  • 16 people burnt their hands in a plasma speaker and had to amputate

  • Dear Santa....

  • It now needs a subwoofer counterpart. 

  • @oniman13 Triple the voltage this needs and move the electrodes farther apart and you'll either have a massive explosion or a subwoofer.

  • Just want to know how loud is this?

  • PLASMA SPEAKER???!!? WHAT IS THIS MAGIC?!

  • Right, so i know this probably won't be answered, but:

    What's the size of that thing, and what's the maximum volume output on it?

    Cuz I've seen that in action, and thought it would be awesome to have a few of these on my stereo system.

    What I really want to know is if it can put out the same sound level(glass shatteringly high).

  • schematics please! :D

  • What is the frequency response?

    Seems better at higher sound frequency's.

  • @3029dz The frequency response changes as the gap becomes larger. But with that comes a decrease in volume as well. You'd need higher voltages to drive a large gap at the same volume as a smaller gap.

  • wonder how the sound quality is like

  • why is it always distorted in beginning, and then smooths out

  • @DeathlyHall0w read the description and you'll know ;)

  • @timetec it's always the same isnt it :P

  • @timetec Before I read the description, I thought you were blowing on it.

  • For mother Russia :D

  • more plasma dancing

  • 13 People don't know what Plasma is

  • I really Don't understand how this works XD

  • i wouldnt want this in headphones

  • @samvcool I am making a pair already, they are near completion. Anyway, it has been done before.

  • that is really cool btw what is the name of this song

  • @GTKING12345 It might be in the title...

  • @GTKING12345 it says in the title

  • it is cool cool cool

  • pretty amazing quality, i built one too, its pretty awesome, now i really trust in this quality... :DD

    XD

  • inventions arent made in kitchens ladies..

  • no f***ing how it works, but its amazing

  • I want to build a giant one, and blast it in my front yard!!! Sell tickets so I can pay for the ginormous electric bill.

  • Coming soon to a Walmart near you.

    No, seriously, where can one buy this?

  • How does this work?

  • Since speakers are in face microphones as well could you use this in microphones?

  • @Jerberspace99 I can see that working.you would need it to be powered by some carrier, obviously. But then bring it into some sort of differential amplfier, take a signal and that to the preamp. something like this, I can see it working. the main problem would of course be low frequencies. this arc acts as a sort of high pass filter...but the theory would be sweet

  • @Jerberspace99 I dont think so. Plasma cannot be created and held in place without giving off some frequency via the expansion of air around it, whereas speakers can be held with no effect on the sound around them. In other words, it'd be a really noisy microphone. The sound waves hitting the plasma (for lack of a better wording) would not change the heat intensity of the plasma, so no sound would be created.

  • How hot does the air around it get?

  • thats probbly the best possible sound quality you could get unless you made a subwoofer version somehow

  • great! now make.a lightsabre :)

  • theres a simulair project on instructables

  • Thats awsome! lol playing metal music through that could literally melt someones face!

  • Gr8 quality =D

  • HOW IS THIS POSISBLE

  • holy fuck

  • Great Quality of sound.

  • how loud can it get?

  • if your not selling it.

    could you upload a partslist and some scematicts for PCB etching and lastly, a place to read up on this stuff. to learn about it :D

    thx in advance :D

  • Touch the pretty purple light :D

  • is dat ting playing all the music?

  • @rharripersad Yes

  • epic from 2:19

  • touch it

  • I call BS !!!!!

  • where can i buy it?

  • I think this has a bright future

  • @ElMuerte69 Sadly, Plasma Speakers don't have much of a future...They need a constant steady flow of ionizable gas, helium is a good example...also, Plasma Speakers give off ozone, which can kill you if you're in a closed environment. but still, they are great novelties, something just to have, but I seriously don't recommend playing them 24/7, if the cost of buying ionizable gas doesn't hurt you, then the ozone will...

  • DUUUUDE! I found out about this today and Dream Theater, LTE and Ayreon/Star One is exactly what I would play on it. EPIC music.

  • The light is light, but the 'waste' (in photons) of the electromechanical effect, so I see it. Plasma is a good example of a high state of energy. Like water, we have ice (slowest atomic movement), then liquid water (a workable yet slow state of atoms), then steam (a more agitaged, more excited form of water), then plasma (which is the highest form of energy level water can get to). At the plasma, all molecules around the 'field' are prone to influence by another input, maybe a 'third wave'.

  • PLASMA.:THERE ARE 2 SORTS :SUN PLASMA (ORANGE),SO HOT ,SO HOT ,THAT ONLY CAN BE CONTAINED INTO MAGNETIC FIELDS (IN LAB CONDITIONS) .THE OTHER IS THE ONE PRODUCED WITH HIGH TENSION ;IS CELEST (LIKE THE SKY) AND COLD .IN THE TVs ,THE TESLA COIL IS CALL FLY-BACK.NOTHING TO BE PLAYING WITH.!! THIS COIL WORKS WITH ALMOST 17.000HZ .LATER WITH A DIODE THEY GET THE DC FOR THE ACELERATORS. AND EVENTUALY AN OZONE GENERATOR .THIS GAS IS VERY ANESTABLE, CHANGE TO OXIGENO FAST.

  • Modulating the voltage/current proportionally modulates the diameter and temperature of the plasma arc. This process effectively modulates air pressure via heating/cooling - which is what we know as sound. To input on the confusion there seemed to be earlier. Touching it would not be advised - severe burns accompanying coronal discharge, nerve damage, and other symptoms conducive to death. Just be sure to say "Hey guys, watch this!" before you do.

  • Nice arc!

  • Where can I find instructions to build this?

  • @PHXMASTER @Ocelot93090 this works on the same concept as lightning creating thunder, this is done by the arc changing the air pressure to create sound

  • This is so wierd, I had a dream about speakers like this a long time ago, using an arc to produce sound, but after I woke up I didn't think it could actually work. But now many years later I see it is possible. The sound quality is very much like how it was in my dream too.

  • I didnt think sound could affect light.

  • @Ocelot93090 its light creating the sound not sound effecting light... and its not truely light

  • @PHXMASTER

    isn't it the high frequency oscillation of the plasma arc making the noise, not the light it is creating? just coordinated static really, i think.

  • @ Thewaterofthepool

    Blood plasma is the biological liquid medium that carries all the shit you see in blood, plasma is also a state of matter where the all of an atom's electrons have been ripped away due to high energy input.

  • I want that shit in the boot of my car for the cruise this Sunday!

  • Cutoff of 200Hz..explains why the low end is so flat.

  • anxiously awaiting new videos and news on when this will be available

  • i want this sooooooo bad

  • i wanna touch it

    might b like getting tazed

  • @supapintofreak more like getting a finger completly roasted ^^

  • Well, that's it, we're in the future.

  • I want to touch it...

  • 0_0 wtf?

  • After Effects? xD

  • Cool, but also produces ozone that'll kill you o.O

  • Looks to me like the only thing that could even potentially be detrimental to the sound is the wandering of the arc... Any plans on how to restrict that?

  • Must... Stick... Finger... In... Between...

  • is this plasma in a tube or in the air becase if it's in the air I need to know how it was done.

  • The reality of Science Fiction is that, if they ever do produce space ships like they have in most science fiction, energy will be transfered in this form. With epic music plasma.

  • COOL!!!

  • dude just imagine if you make a patent and start selling it ?!

    you will win $millions$ !

    the night clubs all over the world will buy it !

    i wish you luck man !

  • This kind of design (Ionic discharge) dates back to the 1950s in commercially successful products like the original Ionovac tweeters used in such vintage systems as B&W P2s.

    This type of design being massless (or almost massless) is theoretically the perfect tweeter. Attempts at making a wide or full range version were unsuccessful and impractical---requiring thousands of watts of power them and toxic ozone emissions as a nasty side effect.

  • Hello. Great job! I have a question - do You filter audion input signal? I mean on audio input it is a fullrange singal or only filter above 200 hz?

  • Hello I have just uploaded a couple videos of my first plasma speaker and I'm looking for some feedback pls check out my page and thanks btw you're setup is nice

  • i bet BASS PLASMA is HUUUUGE :)

    it would be so epic to have a bassplasma for Dubstep

  • Hello! First of all I'd like to say that this video has been an inspiration for all sorts of creative thinking, as well as a great show-n-tell video at parties. I'm wondering if you can perhaps share diagrams or a summery of equipment used to create this awesome machine. It's my hope to build one as a project for school, and to experiment w/ it's design. My project is to create a machine that is *uniquely* capable of transmitting light or sound that is perceptible to a human audience. TY u ROCK!

  • wtf!?  0_0

  • My face: O_O

  • 7 dislikes.... COME ON! It's glowing purple plasma playing epic MUSIC! You 7 people must be very boring....

  • @JohnnyGTR34 Or living in a world of amazing epic wonder.

  • @JohnnyGTR34 dont worry those 9 people prob put there hand in that purple plasma

  • @JohnnyGTR34

    7 people probably didn't believe this was real.

    quite amazed by the quality that his thing produces. especially the bass. Cool stuff!

  • @JohnnyGTR34 or stupid .... :D .. now it's 15 :/

  • how does it do bass frequencies?

  • @monstercameron

    not really

  • @monstercameron it doesn't but plasma speakers can work pretty well as tweeters.

  • @monstercameron it would require huge voltage and amperage to "feel" the bass

  • i want one too!!! :D

  • hey...does this emmit a bunch of UV Rad.? cause i know you can get flash burned by arc welding....not a fun process, trust me I know.

  • Dude Gratz, your setup has one of the best sounds on youtube, or you have a quality mic to record it....:)

  • Wow but the plasma can cut the steel??

  • @Thearchitett yes but this isnt a complete arc...

  • If you had enough voltage/ amperage, do you think you build stereo Plasma speaker?

  • 1. I thought plasma was coagulated blood, what the hell is plasma then?? fire, electricity, super heated gas?! 2. what if you touch it? XD

  • @Thewaterofthepool originally plasma was something akin to "ether" it was just "shit in between"

  • @Thewaterofthepool

    If I understand correctly, biologic plasma is to your blood/blood vessels what the cytoplasm is to a cell. It's the liquidy substance filled with nutrients, chemicals, and waste products in which red blood cells float. Aka that clear, crusty, yellow stuff that oozes out of scrapes

  • @Thewaterofthepool

    The other kind of plasma though is what happens to a substance when it is heated beyond gas, and it is apparently considered the 4th state of matter. Plasma is... I'm not sure if superconductive is the right word, but it has a very interesting relationship with electricity.

    I hope that helps you get oriented. :)

  • @Thewaterofthepool plasma is a state of mater (solid, liquid, gas, plasma) when the mater is hot enough it's plasma

  • @Thewaterofthepool super heated gas. It's a fourth stage of matter, where the electrons are going haywire. If you touch it you'll get a nice burn.

  • is you touc it you wont get burned it probably wont even hurt but you could suffer internal muscle damage that could take months to heal or just die if the current passes thru your heart :P

  • @Thewaterofthepool plasma is either blood, electricity or a fourth state of matter.

  • @Thewaterofthepool depends if you're talking to a biologist or a physicist- but you're right on both accounts.

  • @Thewaterofthepool thats a different plasma. plasma from blood has nothing to do with this

  • yeah these are really awesome... what is the frequency response like? you lose a lot of bass?

  • @rayroy3 it sounds like the camera is just messing up the sound quality

  • @rayroy3 it sounds like the camera is just messing up the sound quality

  • i so want to touch the arc ... i feel like a fly drawn in to a zapper

  • How dangerous is this thing?

  • The arc is all like WOOOO YER LOOK AT ME GO GUYSS

  • The arc is just like 'WOOOO YER look at me go GUYSS'

  • it makes me want to cry, it's just so... beautiful

  • can you turn the volume up or down? or does it have to stay the same because of the arc?

  • i think you might be able to by adding more energy to the arc,hightening the frequency or makeing the arc longer by mokeing the two rods used to make the arc farther apart.

  • whats the sound quality of this?the dude who invented this is one smart son of a bitch

  • @GrowlingVocals Nikola Tesla invented the coil im not sure who made it sing

  • Normal tweeters and such have a hard time with very high sounds because of the nature of how it works. A medium makes the actual sound waves, and has to return to a neutral position after every sound. The dancing arc has no medium to travel through so you get amazing high end sounds. But poor low end sounds because you'd need a much larger arc to generate the longer sound waves of low pitches.