plasma globe

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Original poster: "Ben Ziegler by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <crossguy-at-hotmail-dot-com>

Hello list,
  A friend of mine got a cheap plasma globe.  So, naturally, the first thing 
I did was take it apart.  The globe itself is simple - a glass sphere under 
vacuum, I'm assuming.  The thing is driven by 12VDC fed through some 
electronics to a little black cylinder about 1" high with a wire out the top 
heading into the glass.  The globe itself is 8".  Is the black thing a DC 
flyback?

TIA,
ben

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