The other day I was at the local thrift store and found in the electronic stuff the base unit for a plasma globe. I got it for 25 cents. At home I took it apart and looked over the Eletronic past ,all seamed to be good. I was wondering if it was possible use the part from the unit to make a JACOBS LADDER. From what I have seen on the net the eletronic component are the same. Both need a flyback transformer and a couple power tranistors. The rest of the compments that are on the board of the Palsa Glode seem to be for a osolater to vary the freq. of the voltage. This I have seen in so schematic for a "climding spark". In my opionin It should work. Shouldn't it??
Question about off the self "Plasma Globes"
Sep 10, 2004
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Making a "violet wand" might be more fun. ;-)
What's that Lassie? You say that B Ghostrider fell down the old sci.electronics.basics mine and will die if we don't mount a rescue by Fri, 10 Sep 2004 16:31:12 -0700:
Go to the local dump, or to the back lot of the local oil heat service place. Get the ignition transformer from a scrapped oil burner. It will put out about 10kV ac. from 110vac.
Be careful.
Dan
Dan
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