Amazing plasma globe tricks that you never knew before!!!

Step 4 Dangerous fun!!!

Now this is a dangerous fun part!
Turn off your plasma globe and cover your plasma globe with aluminum foil and turn the plasma globe on again...
Now you need a wire that is connected to the earth ground. Get an big nail (I used a glow plug) and wrap some wire around the nail. Then stick the nail with wire wrapped on it in the soil outside. There now you have a source of earth ground, that will be used for your plasma globe experiments!
OK, bring the earth ground wire very close (but not touching) to the plasma globe with foil on it and you will get teeny tiny purple arks. Now put a piece of paper very close to the ark and it should burn or even catch on fire!!! (Sorry no picture of this happing)
OK, you had done that fun bit, but now what happens if you connect the gas discharge tubes and solid-state things to the plasma globe with foil and earth ground?? Obviously it will glow brighter! Take a look at the pictures down below! Also I recommend that you do not do this to the energy saver lamps and LCD screen as it might get damaged.

Be careful not to touch the foil of the active plasma globe because you may get nasty RF burns and damage your nerve cells, although you may not feel any pain if you let the arks jump from the plasma globe with foil to your finger because the plasma globe operates at high frequency and our nerves cannot detect such frequency, so be careful.

Comments

[deathcreep9]

I covered my 8" plasma globe with foil and touched it with my finger. As long as you keep your finger against the foil, it only feels tingly, but if you put it a millimeter away, you feel the burn. You can touch a 12v incandescant bulb to the foil, too but only touch the glass. It makes purple arks in the bulb. I did the same thing with a big, antique bulb and it made an orange ark(that one gets really hot).

[thekiyote]

I stumbled upon this trick one day when I was dusting my room, and decided to dust my turned on plasma globe with a wet rag. Being fifteen at the time, after getting an arc to my hand, I tried using a finger nail instead. I had a nifty hole in the back of my finger nail for a few weeks after that. xD

[willrandship]

Sounds like a superpowered Van de Graff now, but those don't usually hurt people.

[aweis]

yes but van de graffs are wimpy compared to Tesla coils.

[willrandship]

That's why I was thinking this isn't really dangerous, since van de graffs have trouble building enough current to do any harm. Tesla coils are funner to play with, though! difference is, they shock between rods, where a van de graff shocks out from one, meaning you get half the potential in an otherwise identical setup.

[randomapps]

if you want real danger build a tesla coil!

[techturtle2]

a plasmaglobe IS a tesla coil

[-max-]

then, conect a huge, bulky, plasma globe to that tesla coil and call it the LARGEST PLASMA GLOBE!!!!

[Plasmana]

I have already done, I got loads of little ones, and currently working on a medium size one :)

[rocketbat]

when i was playing with one the other day i decided to unplug it and remove the glas sphere, and then thare was a bare wire, i braught an earthed wie next to that and got the puple arks only about 10mm across and it set fire to the plastic on the earth wire so if you want realy dangerous plasma globe fun, remove the globe! muhahhaaa great instructable and pictures by the way

[llynne]

muahahaaa is right! how to get a bunch of dead nerves and set the house on fire. oh, that's right, you didn't get electrocuted, we lose a lot of mad scientists that way when the cat jumps on them mid-experiment! Be careful guys

[tyler hauter]

ive done the same thing with my plasma globe and after a while the transformer burt out so just warning you if you arc the transformer for too long it will burn out

[Plasmana]

I had done that trick before, it was fun and I am amased that you can draw out 10mm arks out of your plasma globe! I can only draw out no more than 4mm.

[randomapps]

 some have an external power supply which helps you to get longer arcs

[lilhasselhoffer]

Wow, is this stupid.

High voltage+direct path to ground= welder

Welders liquefy metal, and force it to flow together. The only appreciable difference is the amperage this thing carries.

Darwin might not approve of my tampering, but life is worth preserving.