Fluorescent Tube Burnout Extreme! Total Meltdown! 

you nailed the music background

At 2 minutes it almost looks like a high pressure sodium sparking up...

Remember Kids: Never Plug your Micky Mouse Lamp Into A 12,000 Volt Outlet!

@suzukir123 Actually it was pretty safe because I was always more than 3 feet from the lamp and 12000v cannot arc further than that and my camera was on a tripod 5 feet away for safety (just zoomed in).

i've always wanted to see a tube subjected to massive overload, thanks for sharing! great video

@XmasLightsGuy I used a transformer designed to convert the 12,000v from a substation to 240v for a home. They can be used in reverse so I got 12,000v from 240v mains! It had to be ballasted to 7kw instead of running at the full 16kw because the load would have overloaded the mains wiring in the building and caused serious problems.

Smelled like fireworks and ozone actually

WHAAATT?!! You melted it!! :-D ROFL & LMAO !! That's nuts! A tube being over-powered so much, it melts! :-D I think I partly achieved that when I tried to wire one filament of a 2D 28w lamp straight to the mains, restricted by a 2kw fan heater, switched to 1 kW, as the tube glowed-up real good, went into an arc-up inside, & then at the source of the arc-up, it got hot enough to make the tube vent-off...Somthing which I wasn't quite expecting! Thanks for showing this, -BoomBoxDeluxe.

WOW! Very nice kill! I love how the 'tube' turned to a puddle of glass LOL This is very impressive! Have you ever done anything like this before?

It’s swirling

Músic is good and R.I.P. the fluorescent light

I want you to do this with germicidal lamp!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Great music choice lol.

Glass like a ceramic in Nernest lamp... Normaly temperature not conduct, but in hight temperatures starts conduct and glow...

I'd say the high voltage along with the phosphor played part in keeping it lit

When glass get hot enough, I've heard it goes conductive. :)

now we need 600 and we've got a RAVE.

This was interesting to watch.

@Photonicinduction Thank you so much! I knew you would like it! :D

geez... jonathanmlang... ummm... yeah that is as far from safe as you can get. LOL

The glass was already melted. But how was the discharge till then? The electrodes were already disconnected. But how was the discharge till now?

Next door was chainsawing so that was all you could hear.

New experiment-fluorescent tube VS a MOT lol

@jonathanmlang, but geezzz.... lol you literally melted the bulb!

Nice experiment!

I watch this when I was 7

@7ReyZor Well that's what high voltage does! Higher voltage = longer arcs.

It has no name! The link is in the description.

This will happen if there's no ballast.

This video would be so much better with sound.

LOL that was awesome! Total meltdown! What did you use to do it?

12kv at 540mA!!!

whats the melting point of glass again? lol. wow

@jonathanmlang How cool!!! I figured it had to be something more powerful than a neon transformer which'll do high voltage but very low current LOL

yes

Wow never seen anything like it!!, erm also whats the song xD

Nice songs

@Photonicinduction you're gonna try it right?

LOL. Make this with a 20kV power supply.

Amazing! Nice experiment

What did you use to drive it? Neon transformer?

Nice video! What is name of the music of your clip? I can't find it anywhere... :-/

What did you do to it to get it to melt?

@cumesoftware I thought that was the air leaking in through a cracked seal.

That is freakin awesome!!!!!!!!

That must have been an awful smell.

at the end, did you switch it off or did the circuit finally break?

stop drop and roll light

@BowlingMania14 Nope, didn't know what to expect actually!

Get rid if the fairground music

Pretty sweet music track! Are you able to give us a download link or PM it? Thanks mate, appreciated

Interesting

2:22 fluorescent lamp turned into low pressure sodium

@jonathanmlang what vaccuum can u explain to me please

Wow!

Mot will just burn!

2:24 coming out of fire to fluorescent bulbs 😂😂😂😂😂 is melting

Where's the fun in that? We want to see it suffer not pop!

Add the sound

oh my god

Whats the name of the song?

@suzukir123 That was the point! :)

What kind of music do you are playing?

i tried it i got arcs and fire and smoke

Lens flare

wow 18w 12000v 1000w !?

lol

insta kill!!!

@Santaarnpaal Actually I did do this at home lol.

I thought it will just burn out

insra kill!!!

Check your message box on RU-vid. :-)

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You wont! I made it XD

Waaaaw

Cheap camera :D

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wow 540! my 12 kv supply (NST) only puts out 3mA

wow is all i can say... how much current did you run thru the tube? it must be quite a bit (more than a NST can do) to heat the glass to where it's conductive...