Oxygen Not sure if it emits UV or not

The glass that's used can block most if not all of the UV

Hey, that is awesome! I would definitely be interested in acquiring it. Send me an email at starmute7@gmail.com and we can discuss it! I would love to see some pictures too.

Please send me an email at starmute7@gmail.com. I'd like to see if I can help you out with this.

Did you ever get your globe back?

Hi there! So this is a bit complicated! First off, of course, Emerald Fury and Phoenix Rising are two of the globes I have from 2017. These two mixtures are incredibly stable - they probably will not change even with thousands of hours of runtime. Emerald Fury doubly so - it is a high pressure mixture and so it's not really affected by the mild outgassing that occurs through very long runtimes. Phoenix Rising is also good that way, but if you run it 24/7 it may change slightly after an extremely long time. Both of those globes are running in pristine original condition through 4 years of moderate use. The Genesis is a bit different. Well- I actually have 2 Genesis globes from 2017. One of them is the one in this video and the other one is the more gentle one from the old review. The active one has not changed at all, through at least 1,000 hours of use. The gentle one - I'm actually trading it away tomorrow - changed very significantly, but it's actually brighter than before. The effect is much more diffuse and it's now just green and orange with a deeper green component as well. It's not *bad* but not the original effect either. This will pretty much happen with every R/G/B mixture - it happened with Parker's Elegance of Becoming and Elegance of Truth and it happens to a much lesser degree with Aurora's Genesis. This kind of mixture just requires a lot of components and it's very sensitive to change, especially from outgassing of tiny amounts of water vapor. Aurora is a bit better about this since they do bake the glass in the globes to remove contaminants beforehand. So basically, long story short, if you have a Genesis, be gentle with it, just don't run it 24/7 and it should be fine (they don't generally change when not in use.) If you have another globe you can probably feel comfortable running it a lot.

@@StarmuteVII Thanks so much for the response! This was more than I could have hoped for as an answer to my question. I appreciate it greatly! :D As for my globe, I incidentally got the Genesis! haha However, I ordered the Junior version, because it's my first globe and I wanted to test the waters so to speak. In the future, I may order a museum version if i'm impressed with how the current one is holding up. Maybe next year or so! :) Thanks again!

Good to hear! By the way, the other nice thing about Aurora is that they're very much in favor of "right to repair" and such. The driver in one of my globes failed after around 5,000 hours and they actually sent me an OEM flyback to repair it myself. Anyway, good luck with your globe, let me know how it is in a comment when you get it!

Hi GM Styole! I've also been an owner of Aurora's globes for a few years so can add in some feedback along with what Starmute said. I've purchased their Genesis Mark III globe in 2018, Tyrian Purple in 2019, and Promethean Fire in 2020, and all are still working beautifully. The biggest change in effect over time was for the Promethean fire, (but claimed as intended). You can see the change in APD's videos, and basically it gets calmer, fuzzier, and more colorful with sustained loops over time (a few thousand hours of operation), and that's indeed what happened in my globe. In my case the change was very slow over the course of a year and then one day *boom* it was suddenly like the aged effect with much fuzzier tendrils. On one hand I do miss the more energetic effect when it was young, but the effect now is just as beautiful if not more so, and I rather like the fuzziness since it's somewhat unique in commercial globes. Beyond that there hasn't been any dimming or undesired degradation. The Tyrian purple has not changed one bit. It still looks and behaves exactly like it did on day one! It's a simple effect but it seems quite robust. As Starmute said, the Genesis effect is generally the least stable one, though the later versions have improved a lot. Over the 3 years I've had the Mark III, I've ran it for a total of maybe 1000 hours, and it might have faded a little bit, but if so it's hard to notice. Maybe a 10% dimming at most. Besides that the colors are all still there and it still looks completely amazing in a dark room. Also just to note the Genesis is their most colorful yet dimmest effect even when new. I think their brightest are the Promethean Fire and Emerald Fury. I hope that info helps! I don't think you can really go wrong with any of the Aurora globes, they're all beautiful and they seem to last for a long time when handled well.

@@StarmuteVII I have heard that some of the globes have helium as part of the fill. This diffuses out in time, right through the glass!

Oh, I'm well aware of what he used... right now I just don't have the resources to recreate it. I have no xenon left and no glass vessels.

@@StarmuteVII Thanks for posting this. I’ve collected plasma globes for many moons but that deep blue colour only has always been elusive. I’ve collected globes from Strattman , Albright, and Aurora among others but Parker is the only one to have nailed that true deep blue plasma colour in North America. There was Falk in Australia that came close that I know of. Parker does have patent filings that show many mixes but I believe the mix in Sleepness nights might be 99% Xenon and 1% Iodine but could also be Flourine or Chlorine instead of iodine. I have no way of testing. Can you confirm ? i do know that pure Xenon will not be deep blue since I have several of these but perhaps mine have pressure that are to high (200 Torr). These are more blue white and need to have an exposed metal electrode when using reasonable current levels. In fact some of these only have true blue from a secondary glow if the glass itself. A few that I have that were supposed to be pure Xenon actually have oxygen/nitrogen contamination that adds a bit of green. These are not ugly but not what I was looking. At least I know where green comes from. In any regards I was seriously thinking of having Parker make me a sleepless nights. His minimum size now is 18 “ but not cheap. I was looking at 22” but need to make sure no one else can offer that deep blue before committing some serious coin. Also I just noticed that Strattman has plasma tubes that are blue and thinking of trying this in a globe. Thing is they are much cheaper but I am not sure if they are truly blue or more the pure xenon kind of blue white that I have enough of. The thing with pictures is that you never know the monitor or camera settings. Something that looks amazing in pictures might be disappointing in real life. The globe and column that you made are these pure Xenon? There is a good difference when you filmed the side by side but your column looked bluer. And when I mean bluer I am talking about the actual plasma filament and not the surrounding aura. I noticed that many of my totally clear globes (borosilicate glass with no phosphor coating) actually fluorescent blue even though the plasma filaments are not really blue but more bluish lavender. Have your ever tried iodine or maybe even mercury? I know everyone would panic about mercury but remember it is in all the fluorescent [ even the so called green fluorescent compacts ) and Hid lights up to recently. Thoughts?

@@xenon1422 Alright... you might want to email me at starmute7@gmail.com because this is a conversation that I'm very, very interested in having! I would love to see your Strattman and Albright globes - those are quite rare and very cool to me. I have a couple of rare globes too that I'll likely be making a video on soon. Anyway. Blue plasma is my favorite color by far so I tend to collect them. Now, iodine is a bit different from most other additives because it's a solid - Sleepless Nights is fully 'saturated' with iodine. I have created this mixture myself before (or a very similar analogue at a higher pressure) using a mixture of xenon, iodine, and tiny amounts of pool chemicals containing both chlorine and bromine. The small tube I made has only a small amount of xenon and is actually mostly krypton, with the other additives still included. Krypton makes it a bit more energetic and less expensive than pure xenon which is just crazy expensive. In any case, the tube is definitely more blue than the globe. Fluorine and chlorine both give a more cyan color to xenon. The Russian tube that I have is Xenon + CCl4 and is excellent. Mercury is pretty much useless for filamentary discharges from what I've heard - it makes blue clouding effects and of course causes a lot of UV to be emitted. You do NOT want Parker to make you a Sleepless Nights. He will charge you an arm and a leg or just ignore you. It's likely not worth your time. There is a much better solution for a deep blue which would be ordering from teslacoilpro. You can find them on etsy or their website - they are the Russians who made me my cyan tube and I've seen that they're quite capable of making a deep blue. Just tell them that you are looking for a deep blue from xenon/iodine and they can probably make you a tube like mine for around $900 or a 15 inch cauldron-type globe for somewhere around $1500. I should mention as well that the blue in person is very slightly less blue than the video would indicate, but not by much. Once again please send me an email at starmute7@gmail.com if you want to talk about this further, I'm happy to talk at length about any of this!

@@StarmuteVII does it result in dangerous UV? With that color blue, I wouldn’t be surprised if there were some even stronger UV lines.

@@StarmuteVII - isn't it crazy how properly blue light just can't be captured right by almost any kind of modern camera

You can sometimes find them on eBay, Thordarson was the main manufacturer of them in the 80s. Take care not to buy flybacks of super old models as they will burn out very quickly and not deliver much voltage anyway.

Does a CO2 laser flyback transformer work? I found one on eBay.

You should absolutely not use those. They are extremely dangerous and have the potential to kill you instantly.

Oh shit!

I have some small "stick" lamps that change color. They put in neon & argon. The neon ionizes easily, so at low power input, the neon carries most of the current & red light comes out. At higher current, the argon gets more current, makes UV light & excites the phosphor coating (either green or blue). The blue one changes between purple & blue, the green one between green & yellow. Circuit can be made that varies the drive with music.

Oh yeah... that's always really painful. I've had a few incidents like this but none of them quite as bad. Whenever you do start making your own plasma artwork... please show me! I started making it when I was 19, and it was a heck of a task, but also one of the most fun experiences of my life. I'll be delighted to see in a few years when you have the resources to make it yourself.

Yea, it can be a task and a pain, the review of the 3 aurora plasma design globes really caught my attention, I loved that video and definitely subscribed! ;)

Xenon and iodine :)

@@StarmuteVII be careful if they use oxygen and nitrogen

Will you please tell me if you know how to replace the cooling fan of a James Faulk Ground Star ? I read something on redit and my Ground Star needs a new fan ✌🏽 Thank you very much.

Which edition is it? And, would you ever be willing to sell it? Please send me an email to starmute7@gmail.com, I'd love to at least see some pictures of it!

@Starmute VII I'm not sure how to send you pictures I'm not good at computers so I'm not sure how but I do have pictures

@Starmute VII I'm not sure what edition it is or what that means but it is signed by Bill Parker and it say it's # 162/375 and dated 1984

@Starmute VII and yes I would be willing to sell it

Please do send me an email to starmute7@gmail.com! Would you be able to tell me at least what colors the globe is?

dude there at target :)

Yea but there not my style, I want mine to be 'exotic'

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The actual mixture is xenon+iodine! I actually recreated something close with krypton recently - I have some xenon now, but no suitable globe. Is your globe a Parker globe too, by the way?

@@StarmuteVIImy globe is a Chinese knock off, the RF leak through the wire causes the phones to lose signal, so it sits on my table powered off 99% of its life. It occasionally is powered on to shock a unsuspecting visitor ;) I want to make my own, But I haven't been able to find a Neon bottle for a sensible price. From where were you able to obtain the xenon?

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If you want to know why you don't get hurt when you touch them. Well because the current is low (in milliamps or less) And the frequency is very high in tens of kilohertz And the glass insulator also plays a role in safety AS LONG AS YOU USE THEM RESPONSIBLY then there is no need to worry about it :)

You can't. They are very rare art pieces and it's very very hard to find them anywhere at reasonable prices.

@@StarmuteVII thnk u!!

krypton and iodine

Parker actually stopped responding to me after a while so that stopped being an option. And, I believe it would have been over a thousand dollars for repairs as well - not great for sure. Either way, I'm just happy I got to have it for the short time that I did.

@@StarmuteVII does parker even still do this stuff?

He is a very busy man... I've heard that when he (very rarely) has time he makes new globes for $5k and repairs for a bit less. I do not have that kind of money sadly.

That's a shame 😞