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A collection of arcs and sparks and buzz

just like most of the pictures here, I didn't take these nor did I scan them. all faults are other than my own.

Plasma Globes

an ordinary 5" clear-glass lightbulb-turned plasma globe when connected to one of our flyback transformer supplies

a vacuum discharge flask of my own construction
, the first one I made. Evacuated with my refridgerator air-compressor-turned-vacuum pump, as are all my vacuum-related constructs. All are pictured energized with a flyback tranformer as well.

The second vacuum plasma discharge flask I made
, this time from a mayonaise jar. The lid is still removeable, and just seals up with a rubber gasket.

A bad picture of the largest discharge flask I've yet made
(successfully, that is,... :)
The arcs are about 6" long, from a supply that does about an inch in open air.

This is the same flask, unpowered.

This is the most recent chamber, and it works really well. Beautiful arcs play in relative freedom along its inner surface.

there are two other chambers, one which is made from a 3 gallon glass jug, the other is a long strait tube with an electrode at each end.

High-Frequency Stuffs

This is what my flyback supply looks like right now. The arc is thin and purple, makes a nice hissing, screeching sound, and, depending on what voltage I feed it, may produce arcs as long as 1.5"

This one uses the common push-pull design using 2 2n3055 power transistors.

what the same circuit looked like before the addition of a much larger heatsink

One of the bad pictures of the Baby coil,
with arcs striking a small steel sphere held in my hand

A little low-frequency

This is a solid state, modular dc to dc switching power supply, with an output of 18KVDC. I use it to charge my new and improved wimshurst generator.

A little Jakobs Ladder,
powered with 7500Vac at 27ma

A setup with a NST,
clear shortwave ultraviolet tube. I don't recomend this. The UV is harmful to look at. (but we should all be used to too much UV by now.. ;-)

What it looked like when turned on. The new configuration gives a much better arc.

An automobile ignition coil
setup acording to these simple plans.

Fired up!

A great deal more images should be here soon. Just need to take them, scan them, and upload them. No time at all, right? ;}

"it didn't hurt that much, really!" Me, trying to downplay a little accident with an ungrounded NST at my high school's metals room

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