My plasma speaker

[ArcanusLupus]

Thunderstruck and plasma speaker - great!! :D

[TheDexboy]

Nope :(

[MrSPINO911]

Thunder!

[TheHa10]

i dont actually have one of these but try increasing the current to stop the crackle and sound loss :)

[rompn4x]

Perfect song

[barbienipper]

Hey can you post some schematics???? They would be highly appreciated :)

[barbienipper]

Hey can you tell me where you got the shematics from????

[Loeinasss]

dude can you send me the scematics for this one? we are gona build a 5.1 set at my school xD dono if the bass is possible and havn't found any schematics for it. but i would love you if you could send me the complete schematics for this one

[GuardianP93]

lol, thunderstruck... How appropriate... How long'd it take you to thinkl to play that? xD

[TheDexboy]

@GuardianP93 I knew what song it's gonna play long before it was built ;)

[GuardianP93]

@TheDexboy oh nice... I'd love a huge opne of those ontop of my desk... I'd probably die from ozone tho x.x

[xtcongo]

No, a fellow lab tech and myself experimented with these systems once. Like everyone else we wondered what would happen if we touched the plasma stream. So we did. Incredibly we were transported to an alternate dimension where an excellent adventure ensued. My colleague didn't make it back alive, but he did heroically sacrifice his own life to save mine.

I also got a great looking girlfriend out of it.

[TheDexboy]

@xtcongo Well... at least you got a girlfriend :D (is she also smart? or just good-looking?)

[jamieboyrockon]

@xtcongo Cool story, bro.

[rgorazd]

@xtcongo Black Mesa?

[creepingbert]

Ride the Lightning by Metallica would have been cooler.

[halofreak0103]

cool dude

[tjinga2u1]

@ recon985 you can have both!!! =D thats very near i <3 science xD

[djrobotfreak]

any chance you would like to show some schematics?

[AlmostCommon]

High Voltage Rock and Roll!

[ZapaBoy]

You've been - thunderstruck

[EDRAGON20]

@ZapaBoy *puts on shades* YYEEEEAAAAHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!

[99centstore]

THAT is what song you play over a a fuckin stream of pure plasma.

[Baptisteiom]

@99centstore - agreed. the perfect song.

[teslajesranje]

ovo je fakat jebeno.

kolko si para potrosio na slaganje uredaja?

Imas kakve sheme za poslat?

[psychotikpaisano]

It dances too!

[nightmathzombieethan]

Damn I wish I could build one of these!!!!

[nightmathzombieethan]

Ac/DC So Appropriate!

[LolopopSI]

Jezik utkn umes, pol pa napiš če kej ruka. :)

[killeryoda33]

no fuckin way

[HWGuyEG]

I could think of no more appropriate way to play that song.

[MasterBlaster110]

What song ?

[TheDexboy]

AC/DC - Thunderstruck =)

[ldima55]

WOW man i love it can you plz say were can i get the schematics to build this i have a flyback transformer so i can build yes?

[darkthero]

im still trying to get my circuit started but no luck. the only components i have is 555IC 2n3055 transistor , diodes,etc

[FLuidmetal]

What are the risks of a plasma speaker? Are they huge fire-hazards or pretty safe? And of course, what happens if you touch the stream?

[TheDexboy]

Well, as far as I know, it puts out alot of EMI (most of the TVs around the house don't work - snowing :P) Safe... Not really xD

If you touch the plasma. Everybody asks that, still dodn't get any volunteers xD Most probably it'd burn your finger :P

[gulllars]

@TheDexboy You could possibly solve that EMI problem with a faraday cage around the speaker.

[iseealavalamp]

Don't cross the streams.

[Si3z3]

@FLuidmetal Make me one and i will touch it

[438426x1]

lol did u put all the stuff for it in a computer case?

[luvhairbands]

moses and the burning bush...hmmm

[robot797]

may i have the circut?

[ludrini]

song name?

[stephanierose9]

Thunderstruck, by AC/DC

[shepherdchris]

wait seriously?

[TheDexboy]

yep :)

[ludrini]

yes

[LeNingster]

Plasma speakers aren't hard to make. They cost roughly $20-30 US.

Just don't electrocute yourself.

[RainMan002]

if you count all the hours of labor for assembly as free...

[pyrocrazzy]

if you bring the electrdes closer together on the louder beats it wont phase out... the louder the sound is the closer the electrodes have to be together!!!

[darkshadowofthewolf]

but that would effect the lower frequency response. or at least it should

[jontu125]

how us it blue all the others i havew seen here have been purple :O

[pyrocrazzy]

how did you make it???

[lenny7494]

EPIC, congrats!!!

[xMeaningX]

Hej! Si ti slučajno iz Slovenije? Ker sem videl napis "pozor visoka napetost"...sicer pa lep video :)

[TheDexboy]

Bo že res hehe :D

hvala :)

[Recon985]

say...if you were to touch one of these would it mean you could have music flowing through your body...or death?

[TheDexboy]

well, to tell the truth, you'd most probably get burned badly and if you're lucky, you'd survive (depends how you touch, are you grounded etc..) no volunteers yet.. ;)

[an97an]

If you where not grounded IE you were on a large rubber mat while wearing rubber shoes while touching nothing else but the electrons coming out you would just get a shock.

[DJNastyB]

if you were to touch that arc, it would give you more than just a shock, that's several thousand volts, it would knock the shit out of you, and would burn you, quite probably very very badly. That arc is hot, even standing near it for too long will give you a light sunburn like burn from the UV radiation produced

[Cyteherea]

It is thousands of Volts, but a very low amount of Ampères. Electrical shocks are mostly defined by their current. You would get a shock when touching this, I don't oppose that fact, but it's not dangerous when at very low currents. If the arc had a high current, well, let's just say you wouldn't see it for long.

It's like an electric fence (for agriculture purposes!). They have Voltages easely up to 10.000 V, but the shock isn't harmful due to the low current.

[yashirobi123]

do you know this basic formular? I = U/R ?

if you have 10000V and a resistance of 1500Ohm (more or less the resistance of a body)

you get 6A....thats a hell alot and more than enough to die from...

the question is, can the powersupply deliever this energy? of course, it cannot....

if you touch an arc, the voltage will immediately drop

remember, if you fix the voltage the circuits resistance will define the current!

greetz from ger

[Freewarplayer]

@Recon985

It could probably(!) kill you but I doubt that the current is strong enough, to kill a person with a fit heart...

[UltimatePwnageNL]

@Recon985 musical death!

[cyborgtroy]

@Recon985 - Just electricity. It might be unpleasant, or burn your finger, but it shouldn't kill you unless you grab one electrode with your left hand and the other with your right hand or something.

[MaxwellMcPower]

Hi, looks great. Did you make any changes from the Jan Martis Schematic?

[TheDexboy]

Thanks :D No, I didn't make many changes, I built my own power supply and I decreased the input voltage (55V instead of 60V DC)because the IRF540's were overheating. When I did that, 2 days after I was searching on the internet and saw IRF840.. Same as IRF540 but for 8A (instead of 5)... But I still left it preety much the same :)

[zezimashock]

that is because the irf840 has a higher internal resistance. creating more heat ;P

[mumish13]

What ZVS means? O.o

Zero Voltage Switching. its easy to make and draw strong arcs!

search in google ''zvs driver''

for audio modulation ''zvs audio modulation''

[britrb32]

WOW! That is cool! And an awesome tune too!!

Have fun mate,

Brian (britrb from modders-inc)  ;)

[TheDexboy]

Thanks, and sure will have fun ;)

[jovicakluk]

so what modulator are you using tl494 555 check my chanel and look at my plasma speaker

[TheDexboy]

I'm using SG3525, it's a simple PWM curcuit :)

[mumish13]

curcuit =P nice!

But is possible to make a audio modulation with the single transistor flyback driver using the audio modulation for zvs's

[TheDexboy]

sorry I'm not much into the HV stuff yet so I don't really know what you mean with "zvs"

I've looked around for this but haven't found any decent info...