Plasma Bulb with Clock Gear

Step 6: Build your own design

Once the bulb is glow you must think about a nice design.
I build a reduction gear from a old clock and use a small engine from a CD reader.
Mounted all on a reversed bowl and you get a rotating plasma stream.

In a next step I will add a control unit for rotation speed and Plasma power.

Now it's time to went in your garage and give your best.
I hope in some weeks I see more crazy plasma machines here!

GOOD LUCK!
Your Admiral Aaron Ravensdale

Comments

[gskaggs]

Very cool.. Love it! Thanks for sharing.

[bulletBird]

This is really cool, but how does this have anything to do with clocks?

[SMarshall14]

it said clock gear i think its more of a time keeping device (it goes round at a steady rate)

[dgregorio]

were do u find neon bulbs ?

[Admiral Aaron Ravensdale]

Here in Germany you get the bulb in every hardware store. But you can also look here http://amzn.to/rovKAf or here http://bit.ly/niswAc

[dgregorio]

neon bulbs there like a standard or something

[mattbeowulf]

Not having heard of this either, I wondered the same thing, so I did a quick search and found this reasonably informative article: http://www.ehow.com/how-does_4925961_what-gas-used-light-bulbs.html

If you don't feel like clicking, I can recap the relevant bits: the presence of oxygen causes a burning filament to disintegrate rapidly, so incandescent bulbs are filled with a variety of inert gases to displace the air. The MOST inert gases are the family known as "noble gases"; the ones I saw mentioned as having been used in *incandescent* bulbs are xenon, krypton, and argon. Neon so far as I know is only used to fill neon lamps (used to make signs, usually) which operate on the same principal acting here, and don't have filaments.

HOWEVER, the different noble gases make different colors of plasma, and the stuff in the pictures sure looks to me like the color neon makes. Adm. Aaron says he used a flickering candle bulb... for all I know, maybe those all use neon for some reason. It certainly would work fine fr the purpose of extending filament life. As for finding them, I would ask the great Google machine ;-)

[dgregorio]

yea i looked up how to make neon so i can make a neon bulb but that requires equipment u usualy find in a house hold u have to freeze air to a liquid then let it warm up as that dose different gases un freeze and neon is the gas that unfreezes at 225. C which is much colder then my freezer


pardon my spelling

[mattbeowulf]

Sorry, I suppose my suggestion could have been clearer: I'd search google for "flickering candle bulb" and get some of those online, since that is the proven type of bulb for the application. Since I'm already here, this search is on me ;-)

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=buy+flickering+candle+bulb

[woofman]

Super cool though a little thin with the instruction part....I am especially glad to see the flash board hack for neon bulbs, that opens up a LOT of possibilities. Your project is beautiful, with wonderful craftsmanship and detail. Thanks a LOT for posting.