Plasma globe

Don't do the aluminum foil thing, it'd be the same as touching the globe's glass and at the same time touching metal connected to the ground with your other hand. Not cool at all, I have experienced it and lived to tell you it's not a good idea


Maaaaaaaaybe if you invited some of your enemies for dinner... :

how do you drive them? I was not successful in building a driver for my monitor CRT

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The lifter or the flyback? Or did you want to drive the cathode ray tube for a diy x-ray machine?  

Don't do the aluminum foil thing, it'd be the same as touching the globe's glass and at the same time touching metal connected to the ground with your other hand. Not cool at all, I have experienced it and lived to tell you it's not a good idea

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Plasma globes are in fact capacitors.

8tyeight said:

how do you drive them? I was not successful in building a driver for my monitor CRT

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The lifter or the flyback? Or did you want to drive the cathode ray tube for a diy x-ray machine?  

Don't do the aluminum foil thing, it'd be the same as touching the globe's glass and at the same time touching metal connected to the ground with your other hand. Not cool at all, I have experienced it and lived to tell you it's not a good idea

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Plasma globes are in fact capacitors.

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I thought they had a bulb, maybe I'm confused about the internals, I'll do some research when I give this final today at 7pm