light bulb plasma

[ElusiveThought]

I like how this happened on a wooden floor next to a bunch of other electrical wires. But it was awesome lol.

[shoprat17]

rofl its an ignition coil... you wont die. sure some coils such as those found in the old gm hei systems could produce about 30 Kv open circuit but the amperage is so low you can grab one of the plug wire ends and you'll feel it but you aint gonna die, current is too low, with enough math you could find the current easily...

[KanyeTroll]

i use this on my slaves when they dont pick enough cotton

[blackmesa25]

Wicked video mate nice one. I see ya havnt submitted any for years ... get some more on here lol

[CoolDudeClem]

One day I'm going to muck about with an ignition coil and see what I can do with it. I've done this with a flyback transformer from a TV, and the arcs in the bulb were purple, and even the glass glows. I used a DC flyback with a bad internal diode, I didn't realize at the time that an AC flyback had to be used or the diode was bad, so I couldn't figure out why it only worked with this flyback, but not with any of the others I had, course now I know different.

[vistigioful]

Damn does that get loud.

[ThyHoneyNut]

lmao. i was just waiting for it to blow up, sayin..."oh shit...oh shit.."

[patrickdismoi]

wow real plasma. ( dont tuch it hurts i did it jear ago and ouch!)

[niwakun444]

@patrickdismoi I've had my share of shocks :p touched the business end of a TY fly back transformer once, that hurt, it's certainly adequately named

[Schroeder2424able24]

It's our only defense from the alien invaders

[bassmajor]

it's quite fascinating how it interferes the camera

[kosackhat4tw]

ITS OVER 9000!

[L33W41K41]

lol...so noisy

[ToastyW33N]

But it's not really plasma, is it?

[killlingFreak]

put your hand on it and touch the inside of your computer =D LOL

[ladev1988]

OMG this is sooo gonna blow in your face some day

[niwakun444]

@ladev1988 Not likely I done that 2 years ago and still haven't had an accident and this thing doesn't really have anything that could particularly explode violently.

[ladev1988]

@niwakun444 don't know I kinda have the feeling that it may get to hot and if it is pressurized it can explode in your face

[niwakun444]

@ladev1988 Well light bulbs like that are not pressurised they are in fact at a very low pressure and although the voltage it very high the current is extremely low so isn't going to get hot any time soon.

[ladev1988]

@niwakun444 Nice to know :) thanX

[MrThomassss]

can it make streamer without lightbulb,like a teslacoil?

[niwakun444]

@MrThomassss Sadly not, it can only manage a faint corona with out the light bulb.

[mhytbuster52]

tesla coil:D:D

[pureGAGA]

cool

[murdock6sic6]

Hahaha you guys are gay ...... Science fight!!!

[voltsforfun]

there is no gas in that bulb at all to make plasma

fagot

[niwakun444]

Yes there is, it couldn't possibly be a total vacuum because it would implode. Bulbs are filled with an inert gas, usually argon and I'm sure if you looked at the spectral lines of the light being emitted here it would match argon.

[stupidkid1337]

@niwakun444 i dare u to use xenon gas :3

[niwakun444]

@stupidkid1337 I'd have to buy a xenon filled bulb and they aint very cheep :p and I would need a new power supply, the one in the vid gave up the ghost quite a while ago =[

[Zeddy100]

@voltsforfun Why do ya gotta call people names? That's no way for a lady to talk.

[voltsforfun]

people spark something up and call it plasma this is

NOT plasma its just high voltage look up the damn

word.

[niwakun444]

Actually a plasma is a gas which has become ionised due to the gain or loss of electrons. This can be induced via interaction with other electrons and certain types of radiation. In tho video the electrons being emitted from the filament strike atoms, likely to be argon in this case. They gain an electron and move to a higher energy level, as they fall back down to their standard energy level a photon is given out. So I think you will find this is plasma look up the meaning of the damn word.

[spartianm16]

@voltsforfun you got served

[elmotox]

@spartianm16 hahahhaa shit

[0neLastShot]

@voltsforfun idiot

[justus954]

leave it for 10 mins and then it dosen't need power xD

[midnightsun5500]

ooooooo plasmaaaaaa

[Xleptix]

as the power increased i was like " AAAA!!!"

[BORATMAKEMOVIE]

im american. i agree that our country is stupid. lol. im not the smartest but there are people out there with no common sense at all.

[10Karrot]

that was cool

[Xautilissimo]

isn't the voltage but the amps.

[VoyagerScout]

Not true......

Brainwashedmc is right

[niwakun444]

i concur but its not just the voltage that plays a role in a materials ability to conduct, heat and pressure also play there part.

[VoyagerScout]

Ow i know;)

I meant that, the higher the voltage, the more current you can pump throught the material.

And if the voltage is to low, you wont get a noticeble amount of current trough it ;)

[niwakun444]

indeed and i just looked at your youtube channel as i do with most people who comment my videos and noticed your from the Netherlands which shows me a rather strong correlation between stupid comments from Americans and intelligent comments from the rest of the world (no offence to the intelligent Americans who have commented) but i just couldnt help but notice that :p

[VoyagerScout]

Haha xD

Thanks, it think :P

I do not have a clue either, but i think what you just said might be true in some way. Maybe Americans do not always care to answer appropriatly? But, trust me, there are a lot of stupid dutch comments too!

[niwakun444]

haha :p it seems to me that most americans speak before they think, also something that surprised me abit a few weeks ago, according to the news in the UK what we learn at college is the same level as american universities, that was in the newspaper so i know it can be 100% reliable but i don't doubt it much :p

[VoyagerScout]

Yes I heard the same thing from an American student who came to my school :P

He left this year to go to Cambridge, UK.

I Actually wanted to go to MIT, after college, but only 1% of foreign students are allowed, so :P

And now everybody says their universities suck xD

[niwakun444]

well i'm still at college :p forensic science ftw lol looking forward to uni tho, I cant wait to move out lol i hate this place.

[edv11nas]

:) I see a strange paradox. Many people say that school level in Lithuania (I'm Lithuanian) is a lot higher than in UK :D Although America and UK has got universities and colleges that are many times better than ours. :(

I thing America is in need of, well, stupid people, who will work and won't argue. We, for example, have so much universities and colleges (about 15 for 3,5 million people), that almost 2/3 got a higher education now. Do they need it? No

Sorry for my broken English ;D

[stanik1234]

A university gets more points in a world-wide ranking if there is a posibility to study in English. Points are also given due to vast libraries or number of publications given to scientific magazines (English preferable) etc. In my opinion Eastern Europe has nothing to be shamed about. You have to be aware that this ranking is made in USA or UK.

For comfort watch "Americans are not stupid" on youtube =D

[kirill2525]

@niwakun444 i herds that an american went to japan to study something. the university was an average- not a very good one. he flunked all the classes so he went to the us. passed all A's at a "hard" university

[spawn2192]

ur a fag.

[niwakun444]

Wow what a highly intuitive and well though out reply. One would of thought you would try and make a point that not all Americans are stupid yet that just adds fuel to the fire. There really is no hope if all you can think of as a counter argument is "ur a fag."

[spawn2192]

yep

[spawn2192]

thats coming from a person who home country sucks worse than america you dumb russian whore. oh yeah thats right russian and ukranian women come here to be prostitutes. so go fuck urself cuz you wont get any women with your big ass nose and tiny penis

[Nosy1993]

@spawn2192 hey, sorry for the replies from this account. My stupid Russian stepbrother took it over and was writing responses to you. It was kirill2525 who said that. I have no idea what you guys are arguing about here but be nice! And yeah, my stepbrother is a jackass, don't pay attention to him. Also, Russia is a terrible country, I agree, but don't get Ukraine into this :O Ukraine is a European country that is very very different from the religious Ruso-fascist regime currently in Russia.

[kirill2525]

STFU marko i was just kiddin around. ukranian bastard. and im not a jack ass, im an asshole.

[pheonx23]

Vader, Shut your piehole.

[spartianm16]

@spawn2192 you got served

[cloud10k]

Lol I like how you always need to point out someone getting served. :)

[spawn2192]

i will say anything i want to anyones face tell me where you live, you fuckin homo bitch and i will say it to your face. you wanna act tough i will go to wherever you live, and beat the shit out of you. just give me the address.

[vasilidawog]

now whos acting tough....

[spawn2192]

you are

[vasilidawog]

@spawn2192 oooo good comeback you little shit.

[madnesscombat5]

807 NW 46th Av. Plantation, FL

[kirill2525]

i agree, in a Russian school kids know the multiplication table by heart in first grade but in America some high schoolers dont know all of it

[usbiker133t]

I can a afford a calculator.

[brainwashedmc]

anything can be conductable with the right amount of voltage

[xXtortionXx]

i think this is just an electric arc flying through a gas.. and all your using is a high voltage source to draw an arc in a light bulb. Electricity can go much further through a gas than just plain oxygen or nitrogen.

[niwakun444]

lets start off with the obvious, oxygen and nitrogen are gasses. the light bulb is filled with argon also a gas and when a high voltage source is applied the argon atoms become ionised creating a plasma, the same principle as a plasma ball, the only reason you don't get wavy streamers in my experiment is because the HV source is a very low frequency.

[xXtortionXx]

i already know that nitrogen and oxygen are gasses, but electricity cant arc very far in these gasses. maybe you should use a high frequency transformer, like a Flyback, there is many different types of high frequency transformers out there, you just need to make it run on a 555 timer, or you can just take apart a plasma globe and it already has a high frequency transformer and circuit!

[niwakun444]

this much I know and I do have several high frequency transformers I just fancied using my low frequency one, as the saying goes variety is the spice of life.

[Wolfgrind]

not true.. only certain types of gas, metal ones... y'know? the conductive ones?

[niwakun444]

metal gasses ^o) what bizzar periodic table are you looking at.

[Wolfgrind]

opps.. metallic** gasses their the inbetween ones

[niwakun444]

the only gasses i know of in the periodic table are in the non metal, halogen and inert elements and to the best of my knowledge they are not metallic and all conductive to some degree.

[MrAlanSeymour]

next thing you know it will start saying "EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!"

[Yogee30]

It can't be good if it sounds like that

[niwakun444]

it only sounds like that in the vid, doesn't sound like that in real life, i believe it would be some form of interference because its so close to such a HV source

[travieso855]

menuda mierda

[Zharovski]

эээ

[amigos1996]

patchile ahi no hay plasma

it means there is no plasma

[niwakun444]

I think you will find that it is infact plasma.

[patchile]

ahi no hay plasma

[Nithaldor]

god that sound is just ear killing xDDD

fun though

[niwakun444]

It doesn't sound that bad its just when its on cam it seems to make a horrible noise, probably because i have the sensitivity of the mic on the cam set to high :p but non the less it is fun :)

[yuna238]

niwakun its nor your camara its when you bring the camara too close to the plasma. As you probably would have no plasma is only created when there is large amount of energy. You are probably using electrical energy and what happens is that the electrical charge creates a magnetic field around the ionized ions from the plasma. Magnetic field + electrons + energy = disruption of electrical equipment. Just dont bring the camara up close!! Those noises are basically electrical discharge.

[GSRJosh33]

Im guessing this is the exact reason there is no carbon found in the pyrimids from torches. They had this technology then. Great work by the way.

[kizer1346]

ok thanks

[kizer1346]

how did you do that

[niwakun444]

its an ignition coil from a car powered by a light dimmer switch and a capacitor linked in series, the high voltage output (about 15-20Kv) is connected to the bottom connectors of the bulb and the other wire is strapped round the envelope of the bulb, when power is applied the electrons pass through the low pressure gas and ionize it and that creates a plasma.

[RoboTekno]

lool nice :P

[zozey1231]

KZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZT!!!

[kieranprotsmith]

big deal, personally i don't see the excitement

[niwakun444]

its not exciting its interesting and i bet more people would be intrested in high voltage experiments then standing in a field and watching place land and take off, although the engineering parts of a plane may be interesting it would be a damn site more fun to build ma own jet engine then to stand in a field and gaze at a plane, and just encase your wondering some types of jet engine are rather easy to build e.g. a pulse jet.

[kieranprotsmith]

true

[Ranzess]

Love NoiZe. X)

[sinshiro]

looks hazardish

[niwakun444]

That's because it is :P although the current isn't enough to kill you 15-20Kv is gona give you a nasty kick, the low voltage mains side could kill you but this psu was in a nice plastic box so the chance of that was minimal.

[dionysus2008]

Oh kool what type of power suppy do you have

[niwakun444]

it's and ignition coil in series with a light dimmer switch and a capacitor, the capacitor i uses was 400V at 0.47uF how ever i got a bit cocky and used 1 rated at 2100V 1.0uF a much greater voltage was obtained but it killed the ignition coil within about 5 seconds.

[dionysus2008]

sweet thanx alot youve been a big help i could really use smart friends like you around incase i am in a jam.

[niwakun444]

no problem and if u do ever get stuck with something just send me a comment or msg and ill see if i can help.

[ParapaDrifter]

as hell!

Tap the zero point energyfield aka "dark energy"! Nikola Tesla did. The Hoover administration stole his patents!!

Release the patents!!!!!!!!

Free energy forever!

The Zeropoint Energyfield is the glue that binds the universe. Einstein said that without it, the universe wouldn't exist! It links Gravity - Electricity -&- Magnetism

[dionysus2008]

how much kv is that?

[niwakun444]

in not sure on the exact voltage but the arcs are between 15 and 20 mm so that's about 15 to 20 kv

[kinsler33]

Yep. You can sometimes melt through the glass of the light bulb if you persist. Different sorts of light bulbs contain different gas mixtures, and so the color will vary from bulb to bulb.

The spark coil voltage source is easy to make.

[niwakun444]

the chance of that supply melting through the glass are very slim, its only in the pico amp range, i think it would take round about 5mA and above to melt through the glass, my power supply would over heat well before the glass could melt tho

[kinsler33]

That's what I thought, but I've melted through glass bulbs with a Tesla coil and with a van de Graaff generator, both of which source very small currents. The heat is a function of the power, which in turn is dependent on both voltage across and current through the glass. Your current is microscopic, but the voltage is very high. Note: as most glass heats up, it becomes quite conductive. Weird, no? Keep up your good work, and keep posting.

[niwakun444]

:) thanx and did u also know not only does glass become conductive when hot it have a negative resistance which measn it will allow almost an unlimited current to flow through it

[CDeus]

Now that's awsome. How come it becomes negative? Explain it to me. PM if you want.

BTW Really sweat video.

[niwakun444]

how does what become negative

[CDeus]

Go to comments page. Sometimes you can't see comments right on the video page. I was talking about negative resistance about the glass. Old comment.

[bang616]

and mecury does the opposite and becomes a superconductor at -35deg C

[niwakun444]

well actually peter that's when it becomes a solid, it only becomes superconducting at 4.2K :p

[erik88nl]

thats just awesome :)