Fantastic! Hadn't heard anything about your tubes in a while so I wasn't sure if you were still doing them. I'm still interested in exploring O2 mixtures once my budget allows, so if you do any research/experimentation in that field I'm all ears.
Is the appearance around the 7:30 mark where the arc is more focused, but appears to have a fanned appearance (not the area near where your hand is changing the density, but outside of that area), an artifact of the camera sensor?
Another great video! Can you please detail how you modified the base bias resistors? I built the PG13 kit to compare to my HVT-01 driven by a SG3525/push-pull circuit. The unmodified PG13 is disappointingly weak as it barely lights my krypton/iodine tube which the HVT-01 powers quite easily. Also, are you using the stock transformer core spacers, or are you using a different gap size? Also, I notice that you are no longer using the large graphite torroid at the tube base that you used in previous videos. How much difference does the lack of the extra capacitance make in your displays?
so i know its been awhile since someone has watched or commented on this video but i had a question about the green plasma.. IF there was xenon in say an exoplanets atmosphere could it potentially be able to make green lightning from thunderstorms at approx 640torr? and what % of the air would the xenon need to be (hypothetically speaking) i took your measurement for 100torr and did some math with a convertor to get this number thanks very much
hi , this looks very interesting . i was just wondering , what pressure would be used for just helium gas so we can make the same thing but with white light.
Helium is probably not capable of forming filamentary discharges like this unless the pressure is very high (several Atm). The atom has little mass and consequently, charge and thermal transport prevent this kind of arc formation at reasonable pressures.
I am in the process of building a prop from Rick and Morty and I want to use a similar setup to replicate the tube on top of Rick's portal gun. How difficult would it be to scale the tube down to about 5 inches in length and supply it with a portable power source?
That is what I am trying to do. I was thinking a sealed tube (cloche dome sealed with Xenon and air (which has nitrogen and oxygen)) touching a taser electrode. Did you figure out how to do this?
Where would I find those Xe N O tubes and set up? Im looking at building a custom PC case with over the top sci-fi look with all the liquid cooling pipes with green fluro liquid etc. And think the long plasma tube would make a great accent for the cooling tower. the theme im going for is black carbon fiber with green lighting. one thing i would want to look at is a near silent power supply as the high pitch oscillator would drive me to murder lol
well no really? Im going to build a $10k PC without considering heat soak, and ill use these plasma lamps to turbo charge my overclocking, yeah thats what ill do. lol no its ok these wont go in the case, they go on the outside and dont touch anything that will soak heat into the system.
