Plasma Globe Single Wire illumination

[jonnydavro]

Hi,Here is a way to generate high voltage and use it to light fluorescent tubes or charge caps.The interesting thing is it does it using only 1 wire.
I took a plasma globe and covered it with tin foil and using 1 wire connected to the ac input off a bridge rectifier touched it to the tin foil.The rectified output then runs through 5 18w fluorescent tubes in series.I think this can be developed further maybe adding a transformer but heres a video of what i have up to now.

YouTube - Plasma Globe Single Wire illumination

regards jonnydavro

[Jetijs]

This looks great
Thank you for sharing.
How much power does the plasma globe consume? Do you really need the rectifier?

[amigo]

I would probably try the AV Plug instead of the full wave rectifier...

The globe is probably DC 12V/300mA wallwart.

[jonnydavro]

Hi, The mains adapter for the globe is 1amp but what the globe actually uses i won,t know without a clamp on or cutting the wire.
You don't need the rectifier,you can link tubes in series with the first tube connected to the tin foil and and the last tube connected to earth.I use the kitchen sink as it is earthed.This increases the brightness.
I will try the av plug, thanks for your sugestions.

Regards jonnydavro.

[amigo]

That must be a bigger version of the globe, the one I have (smaller) uses 12V 300mA DC adapter.

[Jetijs]

Ok, I tried this setup witha a 12v 500mA plasma globe. At first I noticed, that it works better without any rectifiers or diodes, at least using my globe and bulbs. It can light up a tube type 15w CFL bulb at half the brightness. It can easily do this with only one wire, but the light is a little brighter if I attach some metal piece with big surface area on the other side of the bulb. I can also easily operati with this setup while it is running without injuring me. If I take a piece of metal and tap the aluminum foil with it, I can draw arcs across the metal and the foil up to 1mm long This is fun
Will make a video later.

[jonnydavro]

Hi Jetijs,Glad someone else is having a play with this.The electricity this globe produces acts very strange,you can light leds in both directions with 1 wire.Also if you use the bridge rectifier,ihave found that it is easier to light multiple tubes with the added benefit of charging capasitors to well over 400v.When charging capasitors, if you connect the negative off the cap to earth,i do it via my kitchen sink as they are earthed through the house wireing in the uk charging goes through the roof and i pulled the plug at 440v due to the cap rateing.
In the experiment you have done when you attached 1 end of the bulb to a metal plate,try earthing it,you will see a large increase in brightness.
This is weird but fun like you are finding out,thanks for the reply.
Regards jonnydavro.

[amigo]

What about this:

Instead of using the AC adapter, replace it with a battery (lead-acid for example of sufficient amphour rating) and then test the above mentioned connection to the ground.

Just to rule out any power grid messing around with the ground circuit or causing other oscillations that would contribute to additional brightness increase...

[Jetijs]

Amigo, I just tried running this globe on 12v battery, I did not use any ground, the only ground was me. I attached one side of the CFL bulb to the foil and I held other end of the bulb in my hand. This time the brightness was a little greater than when using the power adapter. The bulb also lights up a bit if I touch one of its leads on either of the battery terminals when the globe was running. This leads me to believe that the adapter tends to somehow ground some part of the static field around the globe. But when a battery is used, there is no way for the field to ground itself and it becomes more powerful

[amigo]

Excellent Jetijs, thanks for trying...so the AC grid appears to affect this in some way and somehow I feel impedes it. I will try this myself too, to confirm my own hypothesis.

On a long run this could mean that we should never ever use AC power grid for any sources of power in experiments, no matter how easy and convenient it seems. We just might be missing an important clue by doing so...

[ABCStore]

Guys, let me revive this thread.

After playing with the globe I found out that if you do not connect the load directly to the foil but rather leave a small spark gap, it will increase the output greatly. Just my $0.02

ABC

[wings]

Guys, let me revive this thread.

After playing with the globe I found out that if you do not connect the load directly to the foil but rather leave a small spark gap, it will increase the output greatly. Just my $0.02

ABC

my original test without diode rectification, connected to aluminium foil and to ground

4 x 220V 2w led light and exaust tube
I measure 60 - 70 khz
1000 - 1100V???? ... you can easy have sparks to ground

[wings]

my original test without diode rectification, connected to aluminium foil and to ground

4 x 220V 2w led light and exaust tube

the explanation in this document?:

[wings]

the explanation in this document?:

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high voltage
two different material
in order to have energy from multipactor effect ?

[Guest]

Hi,Here is a way to generate high voltage and use it to light fluorescent tubes or charge caps.The interesting thing is it does it using only 1 wire.
I took a plasma globe and covered it with tin foil and using 1 wire connected to the ac input off a bridge rectifier touched it to the tin foil.The rectified output then runs through 5 18w fluorescent tubes in series.I think this can be developed further maybe adding a transformer but heres a video of what i have up to now.

YouTube - Plasma Globe Single Wire illumination

regards jonnydavro

I did something similar a while ago. I used a 6W neon, pulse it with high voltage connected only with one wire to ignition coil, wrap around a aluminium foil and connect one wire to foil. I was able to light 5 neon, and recharge the battery. As a supply I used 15 Volt from my laptop charger. My meter was showing amp draw of 75 mA, but I think that was a mistake. As for the pulsing source I used output from my sound card. Here is the circuit and a video.

http://www.energeticforum.com/attach...t-circuit3.pdf

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