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RE: 40w globe lightbulb = safe plasma ball?



Original poster: "Dan Kline by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <daniel_kline-at-med.unc.edu>



> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 6:58 PM
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> Subject: Re: 40w globe lightbulb = safe plasma ball?
>
>
> Original poster: "D.C. Cox by way of Terry Fritz
> <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <resonance-at-jvlnet-dot-com>
>
>
> You might borrow a radiation badge from a local hospital X-ray
> dept.  If you
> befriend the X-ray tech I'm sure they will give you a badge to do
> the test.
> Then the tech processes it to check.  This would be a good test --- please
> report your results to the Tesla List so we all know.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Dr. Resonance

Back when I was first playing around with Tesla coils, I was using 25 Watt,
large globe bulbs for making streamers and things. It was a long time ago,
so I don't remember if I was getting streamers with every bulb, but I *do*
remember getting a green glow a few times. I thought it was copper breaking
down or something. I didn't make the x-ray connection until reading in  this
list a few years ago. I would have always been doubtful about having
actually produced
x-rays, except for the fact that I couldn't figure out for years how *all of
my holography film was completely exposed and ruined* one time. The only
explanation I have is that the film was exposed by x-rays. I had three boxes
of film, one previously opened, and two others never opened until I was
finding all the film exposed. All three boxes were ruined. Holography film
is way too expensive to use for x-ray testing, but maybe some other sort of
film might work?
-Dan Kline