Re: home grown plasma globe

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Original poster: "D.C. Cox" <resonance@xxxxxxxxxx>



We stock plasma globe driver boards and flybacks to work with 
them.  Some have on-board flybacks.

Dr. Resonance



> I plan on getting (eventually) a 75L round-bottom flask to make a 
> 22" plasma globe, hopefully with white or blue sparks (argon or N2). 
> Is there a cookbook somewhere on how to do this? I already have a 
> vacuum pump that can go down to 20 micron with a digital guage on it 
> (refridgeration type). I plan on trying to make it look like the 
> sparks from the 12" ones at Spencers and not just a bright glow when 
> it's touched. How much voltage/current do i need to jump 22" and 
> what's the output waveform and frequency usually? I guess that 
> depends on the gas and pressure but just need a ballpark figure. Now 
> I wish I woulda saved my old plasma driver board when the 12" globe 
> went belly up so I coulda took some measurements. I plan on using 
> this to decorate my pc case and run it off 1 of the 12vdc rails of 
> the atx supply.
>
> Mike