Excellent! Historically, the 1st "hint" at this sort of phenomena can be found in Exodus 3:2 --the mystery solved when you realize that the "fire" was a modulated electrical plasma. A similar (much larger scale) account can be found in Revelation 10:3 --modulated lightning (7 thunders) to speak. Considering these accounts were written +4000 and +2000 years ago (respectively) gives insights (at least to anyone with an ear to hear) about the nature of the Designer.
With proper crossovers, and a clean signal (ie: wave or FLAC) it's almost impossible to beat the high-end reproductive capabilities of a plasma tweeter. with heavily encoded signals, like that of an MP3, it can be a little noisy, since the upper range has no real limit.
The one problem with this design is juice, it's incredibly inefficient, if incredibly cool.
Performance Colors from differing salts: The use of a chloride on electrode PRIOR makes for a richer color. Green Barium Nitrate - strong green but if used on a ferric electrode, short lived Barium Sulfate - Much better Red Strontium Nitrate - same issue, much better performance with Strontium Carbonate. Yellow Most people use Sodium Chloride; the life of the color is great....but Sodium Nitrate will yield a "real" yellow. Blue Copper sulfate: standard - but the color is weak: CuNO3 deeper!
I got a lot of copper sulfate off eBay. Try also United Nuclear, they sell most chemicals in lab-quality. And there's also Skylighter, which specialized in firework making chemicals, so if you can't get it from there, there's not much else for you to try. :P
for my next more interesting project, im going to attempt to create some more HV arcs, this time in sequence. first im going to make multiple arcs using my remaining 3 flybacks, if that works, ill take it all apart, using the 3 flybacks, and try to make an arc series on one current. ill try to get an arc to jump on the same current in 2 gaps in the wire.
(if anyone doesent reccomend i try this due to potential hazards, I wont attempt it as i know the thing with overloading transformers.)
Have you or your "Lab assistants" ever attempted to add Magnesium Sulfate to the arc in an attempt to get an "Angel White" colored arc? Idk if it will work with that though, as its difficult to get the effect, Ive only successfully made a campfire "Angel White" using magnesium sulfate once, i had to make a liquid solution of it and soak some dry stuff with it, let it dry and burn. it made some of the most pretty fire i ever saw! it would look awesome on that arc. salt good tho! loved the gold.
Ah, Thanks! Learned something new, both high voltage electric sparks and fire are plasma...
I thought that plasma itself was an element that was hotter than fire. thanks for the simple answer. (well maybe it wasnt simple enough for the dumb people to understand) :]
I have plenty of high voltage stuff in my possession, I even have some outlets designed for high voltage that run on a different curcuit breaker. 3 of them are in use for jacobs ladders that hang about in my room powered by flyback transformers. (2 ladders hang from my bedroom ceiling, ones on my dresser opposite side of the room from my computer to avoid electromagnetic interference) does the HV spark need fire to be added to it to create plasma? or is the spark itself plasma?
You sound like you have a good understanding of how to produce high voltages and lots of neat setups!
As for your flame and plasma question,an arc through space is a plasma "channel".I refer to it as a channel because although plasma is considered to be a "gas",it only exists within the confines of the arc. Hence, adding a flame to the vicinity of the plasma arc would combine the two, as a flame is an ionised gas or plasma channel.So basically the same thing,but diff forms.
Question: [Re: Plasma] The plasmasonic speaker is plasma (Obviously) jumping about causing distortions in the air or vibrations creating the sound correct? But before I attempt to create anything beyond HV arcs, like the few small jacobs ladders that i have running in my room atm, (usually i have only 1 or 2 running to save energy, but at night i turn all 3 on) I would like to know: does adding a flame to a high voltage spark, such as the one in the speaker; create plasma?
Nice quality of the, although to me it seems you aditionaly mixed better sound in some parts of the video, is this true? If not, well done! I'm gonna try the push pull version too :)
Hi jmartis2, thanks for the comment. The main high frequency sound is all coming from the arc. I used a subwoofer to amplify the pass frequencies in the background. I switch it off half way through (where it says, plasma sound only, sub off). There is a better quality vid of this on my website and write up on how it was achieved. Good luck with your version!
Hey, I checked out your site, pretty sick stuff ;)
With the plasma sonic speaker, could you basically just replace the spark gap with a Tesla coil?
blastmonkey14 1 year ago
Excellent! Historically, the 1st "hint" at this sort of phenomena can be found in Exodus 3:2 --the mystery solved when you realize that the "fire" was a modulated electrical plasma. A similar (much larger scale) account can be found in Revelation 10:3 --modulated lightning (7 thunders) to speak. Considering these accounts were written +4000 and +2000 years ago (respectively) gives insights (at least to anyone with an ear to hear) about the nature of the Designer.
g0ysorg 1 year ago
Would you mind sending schematics?
djrobotfreak 1 year ago
you have a good taste in music
williamhad 1 year ago
Hey man can you send me the schematic because mine has failed
Halofreak131313 2 years ago
very imressive :)))
ludiagsm 2 years ago
could you post the sycmatic or somthing?
spazmasster5000 2 years ago
hows the sound quality of the plasma speakers compared to normal magnet-electro mag speakers
iamthepanda1 2 years ago
With proper crossovers, and a clean signal (ie: wave or FLAC) it's almost impossible to beat the high-end reproductive capabilities of a plasma tweeter. with heavily encoded signals, like that of an MP3, it can be a little noisy, since the upper range has no real limit.
The one problem with this design is juice, it's incredibly inefficient, if incredibly cool.
Piro42 2 years ago
afrircans1970 2 years ago
Thanks afrircans1970 for that. Most interesting. It's the same chemicals used in fireworks no?
I'd like to try some different chemicals, but getting hold of them is quiet difficult for civilian use! any suggestions?
hvlabsdotcom 2 years ago
I got a lot of copper sulfate off eBay. Try also United Nuclear, they sell most chemicals in lab-quality. And there's also Skylighter, which specialized in firework making chemicals, so if you can't get it from there, there's not much else for you to try. :P
shadowdude77 2 years ago
Hey HV Labs, after yet another epic failure with electricity I decided to try to fix this.
I am curious, I think I may have a method of perfection for the plasmasonic speaker.
I am trying to get a Pole Pig now that I had one of my flybacks blow a hole in my carpet. I think I can buy a used for 900$.
Masamuneblade7 2 years ago
I wanna meet you D:
AznGunGrave 3 years ago
for my next more interesting project, im going to attempt to create some more HV arcs, this time in sequence. first im going to make multiple arcs using my remaining 3 flybacks, if that works, ill take it all apart, using the 3 flybacks, and try to make an arc series on one current. ill try to get an arc to jump on the same current in 2 gaps in the wire.
(if anyone doesent reccomend i try this due to potential hazards, I wont attempt it as i know the thing with overloading transformers.)
Masamuneblade7 3 years ago
Have you or your "Lab assistants" ever attempted to add Magnesium Sulfate to the arc in an attempt to get an "Angel White" colored arc? Idk if it will work with that though, as its difficult to get the effect, Ive only successfully made a campfire "Angel White" using magnesium sulfate once, i had to make a liquid solution of it and soak some dry stuff with it, let it dry and burn. it made some of the most pretty fire i ever saw! it would look awesome on that arc. salt good tho! loved the gold.
Masamuneblade7 3 years ago
Ah, Thanks! Learned something new, both high voltage electric sparks and fire are plasma...
I thought that plasma itself was an element that was hotter than fire. thanks for the simple answer. (well maybe it wasnt simple enough for the dumb people to understand) :]
Masamuneblade7 3 years ago
I have plenty of high voltage stuff in my possession, I even have some outlets designed for high voltage that run on a different curcuit breaker. 3 of them are in use for jacobs ladders that hang about in my room powered by flyback transformers. (2 ladders hang from my bedroom ceiling, ones on my dresser opposite side of the room from my computer to avoid electromagnetic interference) does the HV spark need fire to be added to it to create plasma? or is the spark itself plasma?
Masamuneblade7 3 years ago
Hi Masamuneblade7,
You sound like you have a good understanding of how to produce high voltages and lots of neat setups!
As for your flame and plasma question,an arc through space is a plasma "channel".I refer to it as a channel because although plasma is considered to be a "gas",it only exists within the confines of the arc. Hence, adding a flame to the vicinity of the plasma arc would combine the two, as a flame is an ionised gas or plasma channel.So basically the same thing,but diff forms.
hvlabsdotcom 3 years ago
Question: [Re: Plasma] The plasmasonic speaker is plasma (Obviously) jumping about causing distortions in the air or vibrations creating the sound correct? But before I attempt to create anything beyond HV arcs, like the few small jacobs ladders that i have running in my room atm, (usually i have only 1 or 2 running to save energy, but at night i turn all 3 on) I would like to know: does adding a flame to a high voltage spark, such as the one in the speaker; create plasma?
Masamuneblade7 3 years ago
Meh. Can I touch it?
SSJLIGHT 3 years ago
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jovicakluk 3 years ago 5
It looks so... Delicious... I'd rather lick it!
Proottalfain 3 years ago
hey you wouldnt happen to have a schematic for this set up, if you do it would be greatly appreciated if you could send me it
niwakun444 3 years ago
you can find it on his website
thowij 3 years ago
Nice quality of the, although to me it seems you aditionaly mixed better sound in some parts of the video, is this true? If not, well done! I'm gonna try the push pull version too :)
jmartis2 4 years ago
*of the sound
jmartis2 4 years ago
Hi jmartis2, thanks for the comment. The main high frequency sound is all coming from the arc. I used a subwoofer to amplify the pass frequencies in the background. I switch it off half way through (where it says, plasma sound only, sub off). There is a better quality vid of this on my website and write up on how it was achieved. Good luck with your version!
hvlabsdotcom 4 years ago