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$40 Plasma Ball = $200 Worth Of Fun!

🕑 Added 2021-08-07 18:15:55 +0000 UTC

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Fran Blanche

They can be very simple.

'If there's one thing that Fran taught me it's the reverse screw technique' HaHa! worth the price of admission all by itself. Never strip a delicate plastic part again.

Mark Sundstrom

That's a good item for my Christmas list!

Jasper

Thanks for making me appreciate my usb plasma ball i got for my birthday once! It's ~half the size i think, exhibits similar phenomena, think the buzzing with fingers on both sides is a bit more chaotic. (edit: blue streamers) Edit2: i like wonder if you could have a physical model of a thing and detailed measurements and plot out the discrepancies/unidentified inputs.. Probably it's possible for a whole complicated simulation that's hard.. (eh maybe i could try it on a pendulum sometimes. add as N3551 of stuff i don't actually do on list)

Dr Andy Hill

If there's one thing that Fran taught me it's the reverse screw technique 🙃

Dr Andy Hill

Mine conked out after about 10 years, never opened it up to find out what broke.

Michael A Klaene

How much RF noise does it generate? The emissions look similar as to what would come off a tesla coil.

Matt Wietlispach

Very cool! It's what I would have used in place of the red-lit wide-angle lens on the HAL-9000 and substituted this plasma ball when he began to malfunction. But that would ruin the movie since you're never really sure what HAL was up to and that was the point. Never mind. It just looked like HAL's eye going berserk.

Charles Gage

Very interesting! Thanks for the video. I noticed the base plate has provision for mounting the unit on two screws, as if it might be mounted on a wall? Yet, it says to keep it upright(?). Does the unit position affect its performance?

Adric Menning

IR too, my late 90's plasma globe will sometimes turn upor turn off my stereo if i let it pulse to the music. had to put a tube on the IR sensor so it would only see towards my couch..

lohphat

I wasn't sure if your YT channel blocks URLs so I'll post it here. (Some) Plasma globes emit A LOT of UV radiation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ppPrYeXoek