Power of Plasma Balls Visualized | Don't wear a ring... Jumping won't help!
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18 күн бұрынWhat happens if you wear a finger ring while touching a plasma globe? What if you jump while touching the plasma globe? Why are the filaments attracted to us? Is grounding - electrical earthing - needed to attract the filaments of the plasma ball?
So many questions to answer but I will give it a try in this video. Luckily, plasma balls are relatively safe sources for high-voltage experiments :)
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@somerandomguy001 16 күн бұрын
"Feels good to know I am more attractive than air and still can cause a spark." haha was waiting for this video for a while!
@barongerhardt 16 күн бұрын
Still just being used for your potential.
@somerandomguy001 16 күн бұрын
@@barongerhardt damn.
@somerandomguy001 16 күн бұрын
@@barongerhardt you ok bro?
@pvic6959 16 күн бұрын
9:02 "explanation for the increased attraction after being touched" 🤔🤔
@somerandomguy001 16 күн бұрын
Relatable. @@pvic6959
@ChaosPootato 16 күн бұрын
"Petting a vibrating cactus" You Danes have really weird hobbies
@johnschneider931 16 күн бұрын
My vibrating 🌵 is named lefty.😂
@serversurfer6169 14 күн бұрын
Please, no kink-shaming. ✌
@DavidRYates-tk2tq 12 күн бұрын
He's Danish? I had no clue where he was from, I don't know accents haha.
@KeeganWantz 16 күн бұрын
10:20 That was a hell of a jump
@brainiac75 16 күн бұрын
Thanks, I am not athletic at all :) And having one hand fixed on a spot is surprisingly limiting to a jump...
@MAGGOT_VOMIT 16 күн бұрын
Yep, It was a very spritely-leap!! 😳😆
@charlottevixen9222 16 күн бұрын
was about to comment the same, damn good jump
@erueka6 15 күн бұрын
Yeah that jump is crazy
@Mario4445d 14 күн бұрын
@@brainiac75 I do calisthenics for more than 1 year and pb of ~120 squats in a row, I practice cardio and jumping sometimes but yours was really high! on an unmotivated day I wouldn't be able to do that.
@ZOBOFFICAL 16 күн бұрын
i see high voltage. I click
@general_prodigy 16 күн бұрын
That's dangerous, don't touch high voltage
@rylanpeepee 16 күн бұрын
Oga boga high voltage
@brainiac75 16 күн бұрын
Thanks - I do like a good spark :) Especially when they relatively safely can be handled...
@artisticyeti22 16 күн бұрын
It's safe to say that high voltage attracts you
@mr.9931 16 күн бұрын
@@artisticyeti22 I assume that you also watch Styropyro?
@dimitar4y 16 күн бұрын
electricity isn't lazy, it doesn't just go the path of least resistance. Electricity is greedy, It strikes everywhere at the same time as hard as it can, with the shortest path taking the brunt of the force.
@brainiac75 16 күн бұрын
Yes, greedy is a way more precise, subjective description. Will have to remember that ;) Thanks for the early watch!
@dimitar4y 16 күн бұрын
@@brainiac75 I don't have a good description when it comes to transistors and impedance, though. It does whatever it wants then and transistors burn out and then everyone's sad.
@BitcoinLifeToday 16 күн бұрын
7:08 @@brainiac75
@albe2478 15 күн бұрын
it only hurts for a second. typically
@jismeraiverhoeven 15 күн бұрын
If it strikes everywhere it isnt greedy either. Its aggressive
@lohphat 16 күн бұрын
I remember when the plasma balls were first available in the mid 1980s. They were over $2000 then. Now they're a commodity.
@brainiac75 16 күн бұрын
Yep, it is surprising how cheaply they can be made today. The 5" globe was only around DKK 80 / USD 12 brand new including 25% Danish VAT. But without a heatsink on the transistor it is not exactly well-built ;) Thanks for the early watch!
@ThePickledsoul 16 күн бұрын
@@brainiac75 I would love a link. All the globes I find are too expensive for a curiosity.
@JaSon-wc4pn 16 күн бұрын
@@ThePickledsoulhome bargains, dollar tree type shops sell them,
@BLenz-114 16 күн бұрын
A friend of mine got one in probably the late 80’s. I think he paid $100 or $200.
@beardedchimp 16 күн бұрын
30 years ago I experimented just like this as a kid. I found a tinfoil 'hat' that rose to a sharp point gave the best sparks, putting my finger above focussed the current on such a tight spot that it instantly burned me. The black-red dots stuck around for a few days, my hands and arms were covered with them as I never learned from my initial mistake. I could even use the tinfoil hat to start fires which even as an irresponsible child scared me so I stopped leaving it on 24/7. Several years ago my mum gave me a usb plasma ball for christmas, despite being in my thirties I felt just like you and was immediately a kid full of wonderment.
@erinw6120 15 күн бұрын
Ha! Did the same. Wrapped mine with a hemisphere of foil. Became quite familiar with the scent of toasted flesh. Also discovered if I fiddled with the controls juuuuust right, I could engage a "crazy mode" where the entire sphere would go pink, emit a ringing sound, and trigger the neighbour's garage door opener when touching the globe.
@AllLoudNation365 16 күн бұрын
Funny story actually... I once had a plasma ball that I bought off of eBay (this was 4 or 5 years ago) I was running it on 24 volts because I was curious what would happen. I was arcing a piece of metal to the glass and after a couple of minutes, the whole glass ball EXPLODED! Luckily, I was wearing glasses and none of the glass went in my face and I was fine but holy hell was it scary. It was something I was not expecting and I'm never going to do that again. I have a collection of old and new plasma balls and I'm still adding more to it. Let's hope that none of them go nuclear on me...
@Ryan_Thompson 16 күн бұрын
Sounds like internal stresses in the glass got released once your pinpoint hotspot either melted through or caused a thermal fracture. I imagine the higher quality globes might be annealed (heated and let cool very slowly to reduce internal stresses), but your cheap eBay one, I guess they skipped that step. What's a few severe eye injuries for the sake of PROFIT! 🙂
@johncoops6897 16 күн бұрын
Yeah, the single spot overheated the glass. They probably use a cheap untempered "soda glass" which means that all the internal stresses will cause the ball to shatter upon impact or pin-point heating
@v-1nce 16 күн бұрын
especially when working with high voltage/current systems, it's worth remembering that electricity follows *all* available paths (inversely proportional to each path's resistance) great video and i don't mean to be argumentative, just that this is one of the cases where "path of least resistance" can be misleading in a way that gets people hurt!
@arthurmoore9488 16 күн бұрын
AlphaPeonix has a video titled `How does electricity find the "Path of Least Resistance"?` While I know exactly what what you mean, it's a super great demonstration. It can also be easily expanded to show how even if there is "infinite" resistance, you can still have energy flowing in an AC circuit.
@v-1nce 16 күн бұрын
@@arthurmoore9488 ooh yes, agreed! i'm only a dabbler in RF/EM stuff so wanted to avoid overstepping and saying something confusing or misleading. plasma lamps tho are getting into the voltage/frequency range where electrons start to get frighteningly "creative" with the definitions of "path" and "resistance" haha
@DarshanDoesStuff 16 күн бұрын
Awesome new video! I am in love with high frequency high voltage circuitry! Very awesome.
@Dindonmasker 16 күн бұрын
well your in luck they are also attracted to you!
@DarshanDoesStuff 16 күн бұрын
@@Dindonmasker I should have saw that coming... haha
@imnothome5961 16 күн бұрын
Thank you once again, I've been watching your channel for a long time and have watched pretty much everything you've made. I find myself missing my plasma ball more now. Always great to see you exprimenting, no matter what you tinkering with. Hope you have a lovely day
@Mikkelltheimmortal 16 күн бұрын
Whenever you give the high voltage warning I have a PTSD moment and want to start listing the different way to keep safe if you are working with high voltage because I have been shocked hard. 10,000 volt DC transformer, 1 Farhad capacitor, 4 Farhad stiffening Capacitor, house hold 110v a few times, household main and the topper of them all, Lightning. I was struck in the back by a tendril of the main bolt. So I take electrical safety very seriously and thank you for giving a PSA about the dangers of high voltage, and all the others as well.
@JohnShalamskas 16 күн бұрын
Did you have lasting health effects from any electric shocks?
@Mikkelltheimmortal 16 күн бұрын
@@JohnShalamskas you better believe it. How I'm alive is beyond what any doctor can figure out. Fortunately it hasn't done much to my brain but my heart has scars apparently. I apparently have 3 Lichtenburge scars on the outside of my heart that is visible as scar tissue in x-ray. The mark on my back from the lightning has mostly faded. When I got the full jolt of household power something happened to my elbow. When I took the 4 Farhad stiffening Capacitor hit it was fully charged and I rode through it till I could throw it away. I also don't see in the normal colour spectrum, it's slightly shifted towards the infrared side. I can't see white. Even titanium dioxide looks pink to me
@TwistedPresence 16 күн бұрын
@@Mikkelltheimmortalsounds like the origin of a super hero. Struck by lightning and now has enhanced vision! I'm just not sure how you would put your new skill to use...
@Mikkelltheimmortal 16 күн бұрын
@@TwistedPresence if only. Actually my vision has kept me from getting a pilot license and a few career choices because you have to have proper colour vision for the jobs.
@inothome 16 күн бұрын
lol
@balaam_7087 16 күн бұрын
“Well let’s see, I’ve got a ten Kroner, a five Kroner, a twenty Kroner…no, wait-that’s another 10 Kroner.”
@MAGGOT_VOMIT 16 күн бұрын
Thanks for another awesome vid Brian!! Back in the 80's mine and my brother's 6in plasma-lights had adjustment knobs on them and at maximum power they would create large swarms of filaments like yours when you swapped globes. They must've had a large power supply already in them. Look for one of these from the early 80's and back. 😎👍
@sulfie46 16 күн бұрын
Loving the scientific jumpshots! Wonderful little experiment with the plasma globe, cheers!
@user-tz3fd8hm4q 16 күн бұрын
High voltage is so fascinating. It's great to see another high voltage video from you. Thanks for your amazing work!
@KD2HJP 16 күн бұрын
That driver set....I need this
@nakfan 16 күн бұрын
Beautiful footage ⚡️
@Jetstream__ 16 күн бұрын
I liked the references 😂 Also "increased attraction after being touched" 😂 I caught that one! 😏
@Sitarow 16 күн бұрын
What is this nostalgic feeling is it simply because your quality content and imaginative tests or is it because I like you used to play with these when we were kids.😂
@aarli 16 күн бұрын
Hehe, you are doing stuff on your channel that I used to do back in 2010-2011. If only had I known that I could turn this into KZfaq content 😁
@PeaceLoveUnityRespect 16 күн бұрын
Your voice is so enchanting 😮 great vid btw 👌💪👍
@brainiac75 16 күн бұрын
Glad you like the video - and my voice ;) My voice and accent were actually mentioned a lot when I asked why people subscribe to my channel (back when I passed 100K subs).
@ostanin_vadym 16 күн бұрын
Thank youfor amazing experiments
@victoryfirst2878 8 күн бұрын
Thank you for showing us all unique things that sturr our minds to understand the unknown.
@ravanabrahmarakshas4263 16 күн бұрын
good to see that you feel happy that electrons are attracted to you.
@Mmnc-bv3rk 16 күн бұрын
Absolutely loved it
@zagnut48219 16 күн бұрын
Capacitive coupling. I taught my 5yo daughter something similar a couple of years ago. Place a square piece aluminium foil over the plasma globe. Press it down flat around the globe, and twist each corner into a point.
@joehelland1635 16 күн бұрын
Saw stop uses a similar effect to detect blade coming in contact with flesh.
@merwindor 16 күн бұрын
5:50 oh you know deep down you want to touch it...electroboom would have. 😅
@Tranquillow2 9 күн бұрын
5:45 2016, that is time I've started watching your videos. Man I feel old
@RealCadde 16 күн бұрын
You don't even need a coin. Any long piece of wire will do. But aside from being careful with electricity and sparks and fire hazards... Just note that your piece of wire becomes an antenna that can wreak havoc on other electrical devices, killing them. And in any other case, you could also technically be jamming radio frequencies. Which i am sure is illegal no matter where you live.
@andymouse 16 күн бұрын
Superb !......cheers.
@Rivenworld 16 күн бұрын
Your 'grounding' to the radiator won't work properly unless you file the paint away on the radiator and have a clean metal to metal contact.
@damole7874 16 күн бұрын
We used to do dumb stuff when we were young. We put a broken guitar string around one of the plasma lamps shaped like a spiral. If you want to burn a design onto your skin like an electric tattoo gun, that'll do it! 😆
@eiew 16 күн бұрын
Ive always wanted one of these
@brainiac75 16 күн бұрын
They've never been cheaper than now. And surprisingly enough still available off-the-shelf in some Danish supermarkets... Thanks for the early watch!
@bbbenj 15 күн бұрын
Quite amazing, specially when you jumped 😉
@atomdyno6128 16 күн бұрын
I have actually been thinking about this for a while (the part with the powersupplies) and there is surprisingly little info on the internet about it. Tak for denne gode video Brian 😄
@betterl8thannvr 16 күн бұрын
I believe it is effectively a small tesla coil. It would be interesting to see what happens if the power supply was replaced with a wire from a small tesla coil, such as the ones sold on Amazon that play music.
@atomdyno6128 16 күн бұрын
@@betterl8thannvr i have one myself and have taken it apart and such. Its not a small teslacoil but a small flyback transformer. I just didnt want to break mine as its quite old and has a cool effect.
@brainiac75 16 күн бұрын
Glad to be able to give you some answers ;) Velbekomme :D
@brainiac75 16 күн бұрын
@betterl8thannvr The cheap plasma globes use a much simpler fly-back transformer but a Tesla coil could be used. The plasma balls just need the right combination of voltage and frequency to work well. I do have a small music Tesla coil (unboxed on Patreon) so I might try your suggestion ;) Thanks for the early watch!
@bastienx8 16 күн бұрын
@@betterl8thannvr Styropyro tried this a few years ago on youtube, and like he usually does it's not a tiny cheap coil
@andrewstephens7246 16 күн бұрын
i love this channel
@Macakiux 11 күн бұрын
i wasn't expecting the NBA grade jump 😮
@photonik-luminescence 16 күн бұрын
Really nice ! I guess it explains alot. I originally thought that due to parasitic capacitance of our body to ground there could be flows of electricity like the plasma filaments (it was mentioned in a ElectroBOOM video but i could have miss rememberd the concept)
@dizyshooter 16 күн бұрын
That was a really good jump.
@Albert-qp9ss 16 күн бұрын
Nice video as always! I feel it might be interesting to see what happens if you put the internal high voltage wire touching the outside of the glass, and what if you had multiple HV wires on the outside, will it affect a normal plasma ball?
@olhoTron 16 күн бұрын
About the grouding, something similar also happens with electric guitars, if you dont touch it its very noisy, as soon as you touch the strings the noise vanishes
@JohnShalamskas 16 күн бұрын
Your body acts like an antenna for electromagnetic energy. When you touch the grounded strings, that energy goes to ground via the strings, so you stop radiating it into the audio circuitry of the guitar.
@JustPyroYT 16 күн бұрын
Great Video as always! I definitely need to buy myself a plasma ball again 😅
@brainiac75 16 күн бұрын
Yep, I just can't get enough of them. I still enjoy watching their inner and ever changing plasma structures. My only complaint is how dim they are when not touched. Not easy to film in a lighted room ;) Thanks for the early watch and comment as always, JustPyro,
@peter360adventures9 16 күн бұрын
Awesome.
@OJapaTerrorista 14 күн бұрын
Many years ago i had a plasma ball, and did some similar experiments. However, i used a pencil instead of another coin. The graphite point would start the spark, and as the wood heated, it would char and start conducting electricity, forming some small lichtenberg figures. Another stuff i did was to replace the coin on the glass with a paper painted with graphite. The arc would cut the paper on where it struck.
@marketfinds 16 күн бұрын
Are you sure the wire was grounded? The radiator is painted.
@sdjhgfkshfswdfhskljh3360 16 күн бұрын
Looks like it wasn't. But it was capacitively coupled for sure.
@benzonet 16 күн бұрын
It doesn't make much difference for high AC Voltage. The insulating paint layer will act like a capacitor like the glass globe. Possibly the paints insulating properties will break down due to the high voltage and create a connection
@Evilkyrocro 16 күн бұрын
That was a good jump :)
@danwhite3224 16 күн бұрын
Plasma in plasma globes is one of the very few things that is attracted to me...
@dylanmissuwe4839 16 күн бұрын
This misconception has been around since forever. Unless you're standing bare foot on a conductive floor. No electricity will flow through your feet.
@TimeSurfer206 15 күн бұрын
I was waiting for the word "Capacitance" to rear its head. And your body mass makes a nice capacitive plate, much more so than a coin.
@KeritechElectronics 16 күн бұрын
Interesting. The way I see it, it's high frequency, high voltage and very low current flowing in a circuit that consists of the step-up transformer, electrode, air, glass, noble gas, glass again, ball surface, (optionally) your body, air, ground, mains grid, power supply internal capacitance and coming back into the step-up transformer. It's all about capacitive coupling, and enlarging the surface area means there's more capacitance for current to flow through, making the impedance lower at high frequencies and forming the preferred current path. I'd say "the path of least impedance".
@techsbyglebbagrov7470 16 күн бұрын
Capacitive coupling, at play, visualised!
@Snarlacc 16 күн бұрын
I have a few, some are attracted to each other, some push away and extinguisch the others when near. I guess it's either some polarity or they interfere with each others power supply.
@oliverw.douglas285 11 күн бұрын
Back in the early 1990's, Radio Shack sold Plasma Bulbs, and cheap LCD Watches. In some stores, they unwisely chose to display both on the front counter. From what I remember, customers discovered that placing the cheap LCD Watch near the Plasma Ball, would effectly zap the watch in short order, rendering the watch a glorified paper weight. It took manage a solid year, before they discovered the problem, & moved Plasma Ball away from the watches. 🤪
@AK-vx4dy 16 күн бұрын
And a question, what is that element wich looks like microphone in both balls @5:41 between switch and huge electrolyte and @7:16 right to the switch in smaller ball ?
@that_fluff 15 күн бұрын
Relating to the increased attraction between the globes after your touch: The high frequency fields build static charge on the glass, wuich you neutralize by touching. The globes then likely then build the charge again, with a higher concentration of charge on the portions of glass exposed to greater electromagnetic flux. You could test this by rotating the globes after creating the "attraction," wish I had a second one to verify it myself!
@Matty0311MMS 16 күн бұрын
For all the people who don't have radiators in their homes. They are grounded through the copper pipes. Usually they have a grounding cable connected to them where the grid connects to the house. It's very handy to be able to avoid shocking the computer parts when you build your own PC by touching the nearest radiator.
@lady_draguliana784 14 күн бұрын
@ElectroBoom did a bit about a peizo electric switch effect where rolls of aluminum foil could be induced to form a connection with a nearby lighter-strike. I suspect it's that phenomenon...
@sdjhgfkshfswdfhskljh3360 16 күн бұрын
You *are* high frequency ground. I did not figured out why however. Either you are capacitively coupled with Earth (several picofarads are enough) or air itself is kinda grounded and it slowly drains charge from you.
@JohnShalamskas 16 күн бұрын
More like 70pf for a human body at radio frequency.
@JaSon-wc4pn 16 күн бұрын
I actually bought one in the xmas sales just for nostalgia and wonder For as little as £10 half price Looks really cool up at the window at night, Seen from outside As the globe is less visable Looks very alien at first glance when returning home
@TheGeocacheHunter 16 күн бұрын
My guess is that when you touch the undervolt one, you localized the ions inside, making that one stronger and more likely to stay there afterwards. With the overvolt one, it will pull that single filament towards it, preventing any others to form as strongly.
@TiagoTiagoT 9 күн бұрын
I had one of these when I was a teen, and one day I left it turned on a shelf, I must've bumped it a little at some point and it got nudged close enough that it made contact with the wall; from what I remember, I did not see any unusual amount of sparks heading to the wall, but a little while later I heard a pop, and looking at it there were no flying sparks anymore, but there was a small round hole on the glass where it was touching the wall. I suspect over time the corona discharge concentrated on the spot touching, or nearly touching, the wall heated up the glass, possibly eventually to the point of making it conductive which would accelerate the process by providing a easier path for the sparks than the insulating cold glass everywhere else, and ultimately while I wasn't looking the sparks focused thru the tiny conductive hotspot on the glass and molt thru and let the gas escape and regular atmosphere in :( IIRC, there were no scorch marks on the paint on the wall, so it must've happened quickly.
@Martin-bj6dm 16 күн бұрын
My thougts about the sparks while insulated, its an high voltage high frequency ac source. if the body is large enough like an bottle of water hanging insulated from an wire, it wil most likely also spark. first its get loaded with electrons on the positive cycle, then the electrons are taken away on the negative cycle creating a continuous voltage differential and thus a spark. Some sort of capacitive coupling. Can you try this with Franklins Bells (Lightning Bells)? Nice video as always, informative and entertaining. Thanks
@Varangian_af_Scaniae 16 күн бұрын
I have never owned a plasma ball... Why I never bought one is a mystery. But now as a middle aged boy I just placed an order. One for me and one for my 5 year old nephew.😊
@Pants4096 16 күн бұрын
High voltage + (relatively) high frequency AC is a strange beast.
@catcatcatcatcatcatcatcatcatca 16 күн бұрын
Wouldn’t the charge potential across your skin (as a surface) be equal everywhere? In the illustration of the EM field, it wasn’t very clear if your skin had the same gradient as the air. If so, why!? How ”skin-like” would the air need to be to observe this effect? Could you split your skin to have two different potentials by wrapping a bountary with some good insulator?
@PavoneSoftworks 15 күн бұрын
Would wearing thick rubber boots have a similar effect to jumping? With that in mind, if connected to something ungrounded for a long enough time, would it eventually stabilize, or would it serve as an "energy dump" indefinitely? The fact that, when you jumped, a few stray strands of filament wandered off makes me wonder.
@stephenashford9006 16 күн бұрын
I know I could search but just curious if it’s possible to have a different colour plasma ball? I’ve only ever seen this type.
@jonnydude90210 13 күн бұрын
1st I'd like to know if its possible to increase the spark gap by insulating the ground wire in a glass tube so that only the ends are exposed, with the opposite end being in the lowest potential possible 🤷♂️ 2nd, I do hope you are planning on introducing the plasma ball to the magnets.
@Elnufo 16 күн бұрын
Hello good sir, i have a question about lasers. I do have a 532nm green diode laser pointer and it lights most of the stuff i shine it on in a bright green, as one would expect. But when it hits certain objects, it does not look green any more. This occurs when the object is of a neon colour, for example Red and orange Highlighters/ Textmarkers. Same goes for orange plastic clamps from the home improvement store. I also have a coffee mug which is neon orange. Pointing the green Laser at it makes it flouress bright orange only, no more green light can be seen. Several other random things made of colored plastic do the same thing, the laserlight returned is not green any more but different shades of red and orange. Do you have ovserved this effect already yourself? Do you have any idea what is going on there? Would this be a topic for a video? Best Regards 😊
@brainiac75 16 күн бұрын
Interesting. 532 nm can make some fluorescent materials fluoresce - though 405 nm violet lasers are much better for most fluorophores. I doubt all the green light is converted by the fluorescent materials. I think you experience a mixed color where your eyes combine the color of the green laser and the fluorescent color into a third 'apparent' color that is actually just a mixture of the two. I have noted it as a potential video idea :) Thanks for the early watch!
@Elnufo 16 күн бұрын
@@brainiac75 glad if i could spark your interest! 😊
@TiagoTiagoT 9 күн бұрын
Besides the electric shock warning, you probably should also add a warning about ozone; I still remember the smell these things produce after a while. I once read a sad story about some sort of equipment that indirectly produced ozone (maybe it was a Van de Graaf generator, or something, maybe a plasmaball too, I don't remember), was left turned on in a closet in a university where they also kept their lab animals; the space wasn't well ventilated enough, and next day, or after a weekend or something, when people came to get the animals, the ozone had killed them all :(
@davidconner-shover51 15 күн бұрын
Capacitance and a relatively large mass. the plasma balls run at a fairly high frequency in the low MHz, there is enough capacitance between the ball and you to make a good sized AC current to flow
@ashscott6068 15 күн бұрын
Try touching it with one hand, with the other hand stretched out as far away as possible, then bring the outstrecthed hand in towards yourself. I guess your legs will still mess things up, but you could always do it on the floor and tuck yourself into a ball as much as possible. I'm pretty sure you'll be able to have some control over how strongly the filaments are attracted to you, as you reach your hand out farther from the ball and increase the voltage drop across yourself.
@tylermatheson4376 15 күн бұрын
Ok question what happens if you hug a plasma ball not literally hug it but get most of your body mass right next to that electric field does it not want to flow to you in that instance 🤔
@mernokallat645 16 күн бұрын
The probably appear different after you touch them because you set up a higher current arc and it will take some time for the ions to diffuse in the whole globe volume.
@ehsnils 15 күн бұрын
More power - modern car ignition coils or the high voltage cascades for CRTs.
@6Twisted 15 күн бұрын
As a kid I had fun burning things by putting aluminium foil on top of the ball.
@visualchallenge2413 16 күн бұрын
I heard , from a very reliable source, that the discharge inside the ball forms a twisted pair !!! Can you confirm this by getting a closeup photo of the filament (twisted pair of plasma) thanks !
@TheTruthPlease100 16 күн бұрын
Do you notice a toroidal energy flow in the filaments? What direction is the flow?
@anon_y_mousse 16 күн бұрын
I would guess that oils from your skin or possibly salt from a tiny amount of sweat or some combination of the two is what makes for higher conductivity on the surface after you've touched it. The tiny amount of moisture would probably evaporate and reduce that conductive effect, but I'd like to see what happens if you wear a conductive glove that blocks any sweat or oil from your hands from transferring to the globe.
@rocketboysmc 16 күн бұрын
As far as I know Radiator paint is not known for its conductive properties. A better connection would i think give better results
@Laralinda 16 күн бұрын
Great video as always. Now I have a question: What happens (if anything) if you point a hair dryer with "ion technology" on a plasma ball? I always wondered if there is an effect anyway or if this is just a marketing gag. Are there really ions coming out of the hair dryer?
@brainiac75 16 күн бұрын
Glad you like it! Hmm, have not looked into air dryers with ion technology. I highly doubt the output of ions is high enough to have any electrical effect on a plasma globe. But could be fun to try nevertheless :)
@megarturo32 16 күн бұрын
If I levitate my fingers just some milimeters away from the surface of my plasma ball, sparks appears and they begin to hurt. Does that happen with yours too? (Also I was able to light a match with those sparks (not using my firgers though). Scary!!)
@The-One-and-Only100 16 күн бұрын
Will radiation from strong sources affect the tendrils
@zeph0shade 16 күн бұрын
I went into this feeling pretty sure the answer is that whether you get arcs here has little to do with grounding, and more to do with capacitance. The more surface area the thing that touches the globe has, the more the arcs would be drawn to it. I don't currently have a plasma globe to test this myself, but why not try various non-conductive materials as well? Human skin isn't even all that conductive really, but you have a lot of it for charges to collect on.
@iurikroth2281 16 күн бұрын
can a capacitor get charged if it goes near this?
@betterl8thannvr 16 күн бұрын
I wonder what would happen if you put various passive components in the conductive path. A resistor, capacitor, and an inductor. Also what if the 2 globes touch. My theory on the mutual attraction is that when you touch it, it dissipates some surface static charge from the glass. I wonder if wiping it with a dryer sheet would do anything.
@brainiac75 16 күн бұрын
The electricity from the coins is high-voltage, very low-current AC so the components should be rated for that. Letting two globes touch each other can give some very interesting interactions. Will have to make a video about it! You might be right that I remove some build- up static electricity even though it is an AC signal. Still lots of experiments to try with plasma balls as mentioned at the end of the video :D Thanks for the inputs.
@AK-vx4dy 16 күн бұрын
Braniac....you know that paint don't counduct so you can round cable in isolation ;) ? or the futher part of heating pipe can be plastic ? ;) And you are not really grounded in shoes and wooden or plastic floor ? ;)
@blackwater2192 15 күн бұрын
Should try a high powered magnet to see how it affects the plasma flow.
@EdGreenTO 16 күн бұрын
Great video as always. I have a mini USB powered plasma lamp and used it a lot but stopped running it when I heard that the cheap ones may have high levels of UV radiation... ???
@jakobstrobeck8708 16 күн бұрын
The date on the PCB indicates when it first was designed. So it gives a range of being made after 2016-today
@OsvaldTechlab 15 күн бұрын
and you can make a 1-2 cm spark between the wire and the negative side of the hv transformer, 4x bigger than with metal on the glass
@ridley3033 16 күн бұрын
I thought the only thing that matters is the capacitance which in a long wire is already much higher than a coin.. would be interesting to see how a ceramic capacitor with one leg bent up would behave.
@user-qw6bm6tr3f 16 күн бұрын
Pls make video about irs2092s amplifier ❤❤❤
@aftbit 16 күн бұрын
A dangerous but fun thing you can do is wrap a coil of wire around the plasma ball. You can get scarily high voltages that way, more than an inch of arc in air. I learned that touching such things is unwise but probably not deadly as a 10 year old sitting with my bare feet on a damp concrete basement floor.
@JaSon-wc4pn 16 күн бұрын
Adding a mechanical pencil to the copper windings creates a low powered etcher, Lightly burns paper
@RynaxAlien 16 күн бұрын
Can anybody sell 6 inch plasma glove PCB replacement board?
@DevinSeeleyDevilO 9 күн бұрын
I’d say the plasma jumping to your hands heats up the glass and that allows the filaments to jump to the glass even easier and to each other I’m not a scientist at all, please tell me if I got it right or wrong
@reoproedros 16 күн бұрын
mabe its not the ground and it just using you as an antenna . maybe a receiver in the same frequency that the transformer works could capture some clues
@syrenet 15 күн бұрын
ah yes, i remember leaving pennies on these at every hotel that had them, gave nice shock to who ever went to pick it up.
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