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Uploaded by on Jun 26, 2007

Shockingly fun... This is what goes on in the back room at the shop...

Warning do not try this at home...

http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violet_wand

© OldSk001 2007

Music: Kevin MacLeod
http://incompetech.com/m/c/royalty-free/faq.html

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  • jesus christ! i am co-owner of deep stealth dungeon. our clients love the violet wand, but one of the main reasons that it fell out of favour as a medical implement was because it destroyed people's vision! but i cannot believe you were so ignorant of the tool you were using as to use the eye cups..... have you studied the tool you were using AT ALL? normally i'd say play safe, but i'm going to go with play safer. and send your buddy to an optometrist.

    master james

  • @zadagow On the subject of ignorance it wasn't my instrument if you spent the time to read the comments you would know this subject came up 3 years ago. Unfortunately I wasn’t even in the room when this attachment was used. After seeing it on video when I was editing I decided to keep it. It doesn’t take very much commonsense to put one and one together to see that electricity and eyeballs = cooked. See I agree with you the two guys in the video were ignorant or they just really don’t care.

  • @zadagow Both guys in the video turned out to not be very much my buddies or friends and they were not clients in this instance. Both acted on their own so honestly I have zero concern and zero liability if he is blind from one 20 second use 4 years ago.

    Stupidity should hurt, not that I wish anyone unsolicited harm.

    Get my drift Jimmy?

  • How dangerous is a violet ray device to digital electronics?

    Will it fry every chip in the house to plug it in, or only e.g. a PC plugged 50cm away from it? The house where I live is full of ICs - no single place without irreplaceable digital electronics further than 2 meters air distance.

    Which type of mains filter prevents this? Are ferrite ring chokes in mains cable sufficient? (I read that insulation transformers or lightning surge protectors burn out by continuous? HV.)

  • @AerialTheShamen You think way too much, if the wand set off an EMP and killed chips from a distance would the camera work to take the film? I bet it could be used to kill chips effectively if you were to apply the wand to your electronics.

    X-rays, radium lol there is more bullshit in us since the first atomic test and I'm sure even more since Japans critical reactors went into meltdown. Fear your light bulb as fluorescents not only cause skin cancer but contain mercuryas well.

  • Ooo, I love the case-full of win~

    Where is a good place to buy violet wands for a less expensive price (I've seen ones in the 200's-400's!!)? Sadly there is nowhere around my area to buy from... I live in the boonies....

  • If my memory serves me the man who owns this set paid $1500 for it and has had one or two of the attachments reblown by one who blows glass. Also being an antique the powersupply has an original "wax" piece in it that will melt and ruin the item if it is used for too long a time.

    Newer units would not have this problem. Electric play devices are usually expensive after all its using wall current. I wouldn't trust a cheap unit, price also keeps things like this out of the hands of children.

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  • @OldSk001 Eye lenses can be cooked by a mobile phone antenna while a classic violet ray has 10 or 15 times the wattage. There are physical differences in heat concentration of microwaves and the (mainly) longwaves of violet ray, but firing sparks at bare eyeballs is certainly a stupid idea. The original manuals suggested the use only on closed eyes (not sure about the earliest instructions) on low power setting and short duration. This tube in a wrong device may get too hot also.

  • An EMP works mainly by strong DC highvoltage discharge against GND (resembling an electromagnetic tsunami with ultra long wavelength) while HF sparks are just like small radio transmitters (comparable with ship propeller waves on the ocean) those don't do long distance damage.

  • @OldSk001 Yes, radium tubes were a very rare and unusual violet ray accesory. I got my own machine now (contains 2 filter coils) and its EMP isn't that horrible. For test I played an McDonalds LCD game while touching the tube and nothing bad happened. Only when I fired sparks at its button cell contact, the game kept resetting, but it still worked afterward.

  • And stay away from x-ray tubes those were once used for home use. Any tubes where glass (not the gas inside) glows greenish, very likely produce x-rays - a very bad testikiller.

    Particularly avoid tubes filled with radioactive radium dust. (They are rare, but make Fukushima of your home once they shatter. :6 )

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