Re: plasma globe

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Original poster: "Brett Miller by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <brmtesla-at-yahoo-dot-com>

That would be an AC flyback.  I've taken apart 3 or 4
plasma globes, and I've always found small ac
flybacks.
-Brett


--- Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com> wrote:
> 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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