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At frequencies between 50 KHz and a few MHZ the RF energy flows along the surface of your body (known as "skin effect") rather than through your body. Since it does not penetrate your body it does not do much damage. However, the plasma is highly energetic ions that are the same as the heat coming from a gas flame. When these energetic ions hit your body they transfer their heat energy to your body and you get burnt.
Its nice to know that sometimes i know more than i think i know
fantastic thread here, thanks to every contributors
i made a small test this evening because i can not understand why every body . and myself ,can held a wire with the finger and get plasma arc or jet without beeing hurt.
because if you place a burning material in the plasma arc.... it burns !!
Concerning your observation Laurent, a Tesla coil does exactly the same - the arc will burn paper, but hold a spanner in your hand and wave it close enough to the secondary to get arcing, and you wont feel any pain. It seems to me that what your playing with here is demonstrating the skin effect - the output is such high frequency that it doesnt penetrate far into the body and just shoots to the ground.
Heres a video of me doing exactly as described above
fantastic thread here, thanks to every contributors
i made a small test this evening because i can not understand why every body . and myself ,can held a wire with the finger and get plasma arc or jet without beeing hurt.
because if you place a burning material in the plasma arc.... it burns !!
At frequencies between 50 KHz and a few hundred KHZ the RF energy flows along the surface of your body (known as "skin effect") rather than through your body. Since it does not penetrate your body it does not do much damage. However, the plasma is highly energetic ions that are the same as the heat coming from a gas flame. When these energetic ions hit your body they transfer their heat energy to your body and you get burnt.
Great experiment and video. BUT - if you have water in the vacuum chamber then it will boil off water molecules as the pressure is reduced, so there will never be a real vacuum in the chamber. If you try it without the water I suspect you will not get the plasma in the vacuum.
I totally agree with this, but I thought Bob only had water inside the container on the second, or was it third, video. Was there water present in the first video too? If so there is still plenty of gas present - water vapour and oxygen.
Bob can you confirm whether or not you had water present in that first video. Thanks.
fantastic thread here, thanks to every contributors
i made a small test this evening because i can not understand why every body . and myself ,can held a wire with the finger and get plasma arc or jet without beeing hurt.
because if you place a burning material in the plasma arc.... it burns !!
Hi Lidmotor. Great experiment.I can't help but feel there is something different going on here after watching Bobs vacuum chamber vid and his confirmation that the wire moves in a vacuum.It seems that the plasma is not dependent on an ionising gas like the plasma and ion drives nasa and the russians have tested so from what i can see,you could put your solar plasma setup in orbit and it would move without fuel,just electricity to create the plasma.
What is yet to be determined is, is the wire being eroded to supply the ions?
This is getting really exciting and i am amazed at the ingenuity of the experimenters here.Great work everyone.Jonny.
And I will try and locate a flyback transformer...
Bob Potchen
Great experiment and video. BUT - if you have water in the vacuum chamber then it will boil off water molecules as the pressure is reduced, so there will never be a real vacuum in the chamber. If you try it without the water I suspect you will not get the plasma in the vacuum.
@All
I got my Plasma drive to work off a solar panel. I did some research on this kind of space craft drive systems and they have been around for awhile. One is scheduled to be put on the space station soon to help control it's orbit.
We might be the only people doing this kind of research on the "hobby" level.
wonderfull discovery about the vacuum plasma, i dont know why but i allready was feelling that this was going to be a big surprise!!
thank you very much "the cell" for taking our doubts!
this is all thanks to you jonny, if thou wert not you, I probably never have started to attend the forum and begin this wonderfull trip on experiment and discovery!
eheh, i should start to sleep less, because i sleep to much!!
@TheCell.Hi BobI think what you show in your vids is amazing as it shows the complete opposite of what was expected and now raises some interesting questions.
It seems air is not being ionised and the plasma is created inside the wire and expelled at the tip and external air pressure acts as a valve inhibiting plasma flow so what is this plasma? an electron beam like Michael John Nunnerley says?
@Tantric.Hi Juju.I loved your last few vids and the transformer one was amazing.I have never seen anything like that and could be worth its own thread as i am sure plenty of people would want to try that.
You have so many projects on the go i can't keep up.When do you sleep
Can't wait to see your lifter.Jonny
Clearly you have a corona discharge, but clearly it can not be due to gases ionising once you have evacuated the air.
So what does this mean?
Logically, the potential gradient must be so high that atoms on the surface of the metal itself are ionising. And it may be that the corona discharge is simply emitting more photons at visible wavelengths when this is the case.
Not sure if this will take us anywhere we need to go, but it's certainly intriguing stuff.
@suchayo, there is not such thing as coincidence, and who dont see it, its because simply they choose not, they are only swimming against the god will tyde, in fact that is also part of the god will! we are all connected, everyday i feel the singularity expanding at higher rates, its allready happening!
@thecell, im also working with magnetic plasma, good news with the vacuum, what is your source of plasma?
if you guys want to see the most beutifull thing i ever seen about the 4th state of matter, you got to see my last video, i call it MAGNETIC PLASMA OHM!
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