The Plasma Speaker

Step 9: Enjoy and impress your friends!

Well, there is the instructions to make your own Plasma Speaker! Go ahead and pump in your favorite music then listen and watch the arc dance with the music and admire what you had built...

Then show it to your friends and family, I can guarantee you they will be greatly impressed.

When my Dad first saw my plasma speaker in operation, his first words about it are: "What the f... Tha... Thats impossible." He is wrong, nothing is impossible... Nothing.

Comments

[firebird2000]

I have a question: Could you use a plasma speaker for the delivery method of a RIFE machine? (If you dont know what a rife machine is google it, it can cure many diseases including lyme)

[savagefukeronsteroids]

nothings impossible??? so u could fly by flappin ur arms

[mrmerino]

Flap them 3,000 times a second maybe.

[Plasmana]

yes you can, but you need to flip your arms fast enough and correctly.

[pyroten]

i can :)

[Plasmana]

Proof?

[savagefukeronsteroids]

i wanna see this got a vid then i can say iv seen almost everything cos i still havnt seen a cat eat its own head lol

[iBurn]

Have you seen a man eat his own skull? No? Well then you haven't seen everything.

[waldosan]

this doesn't seem physically possible!

[Sagar Gondaliya]

i have. rofl

[waldosan]

you know that's exactly what he said.

[Sagar Gondaliya]

1. You could make the heatsink an insulated coil and then keep it in some water to help it cool off faster. 2. You could also make a plexiglass box, drill a bunch of holes in it (like 30 per sq. in.) and wire it so the probes are protected and people might not be as stupid to touch it (I know some people that would so that's why I mentioned it).

[Plasmana]

Using mineral oil is much better than water, but good idea though!

[randomapps]

 hey plasmana :) would putting the mosfet in a bucket of dry ice make it last longer?

[Sagar Gondaliya]

thnx

[Plasmana]

Your welcome.

[sciencenerd1616]

i realy love high voltage but my mom said that im going to die if i do this instructable

[randomapps]

put a ballast on it to limit the current to 10mA that will regulate the current so if you get a shock it wont kill you

[IronsintheFire]

don't tell your mom next time

[Plasmana]

That is sort of true, you will die it you are not careful with high voltage.

[Gasburner]

even though at 4000 volts there wont be much more than a few mA of current? (lethal "dose" is 7-10mA) everyone making this, remember, current kills, however voltage hurts. a lot. it can also burn

[Aercimete]

could you use a like a faraday cage built into a glove? if so do you know how? coul you just like put foil or wire mesh onto a glove?

[Gasburner]

You would be touching the thing, and it wouldnt be connected to ground, so it would just be a big glove shaped sheet of metal helping the electricity to get into you

[mrmerino]

Ground the glove? Maybe? With a rubber glove underneath? Provided it doesn't melt and fuse to your skin...

[nvysel24]

for the capacitors can they be any votage rating or do they just have to be the nf and uf you specified?

[Cybot Rules]

using higher voltages shouldnt matter.

[nvysel24]

thank you :D

[Cybot Rules]

Fine

[sciencenerd1616]

i' very young and i have made a tazer. the big problem is that my mom would not let me take apart a crt she says that is too dangerous . is there any other way i could get a fly back

[Plasmana]

Try ebay, there are very often flybacks for sale.

[Thaile]

Quick questions...1. Does this chip need any coding as in: Pic Basic Pro to work? 2. Texas Instruments has many versions of this chip, which exact chip did you use here? Lastly, you used battery here, can we use wall transformer to make this work? Thanks!

[Plasmana]

No, the TL494 chip does NOT need to be coded, just use it straight out of the package. I used TL494CN chip. I used the sealed lead-acid battery. Yes, you can use a wall transformer, but it must give out a few amps.

[Thaile]

Where can you find 10,47,100 nf capacitors? Farnell only sells to UK residents... Any old Flyback transformer works right? Did you mount the mosfet to the heatsink? You used just a regular 9v to power the TL494? Sorry for all the questions...ready to start buying parts, wanna make sure I get it all right...

[Plasmana]

Farnell sells worldwide, but they are meant for UK people... You can try Mouser electronics. Any still-working flyback transformer will work. The MOSFET must me mounded to the heatsink, otherwise they will explode from high temperature. Yes, I just used an regular 9v battery. (PP3)

[Koil_1]

Try Mouser electronics. They have tons of components and there's no minimum order. They're freakin awesome!

[Wolfin]

I really like this! Been looking for a plasma speaker tutorial and this one is finally simple enough to try! (Not to mention in the right language.)

[Plasmana]

Thanks and good luck making one!