Lmao that black circle you put behind the large plasma ball to make it easier to see was freaking me out because it looked like a digital effect or something that responded to the magnet 😂
This is the same principle that is used in magnetic amplifiers, commonly found in welding machines before the 1980s. They use a DC current to bias the core of a transformer into saturation, limiting the amount of welding current that can flow, in the same way that the strong permanent magnet saturates the transformer core, and effectively turns off the plasma globe.
When you saturate the core, you dramatically lower the transformer's inductance and increase the current from the socket, essentially frying the primary winding. You got lucky there! Some more powerful transformers can even suffer a primary coil explosion from the ensuing overcurrent surge.
Notice the black Aura around the plasma ball moves closer to the magnet then when the magnet gets close it is pushed beyond the other side of the plasma ball. 2:07
Hello Brian. I'm studying Radiology for 2 years now. While watching the video and saw that the small globe was emitting and peaking at the UVA-UVB spectrum I was impressed. You know, X-RAYS are also part of the UV spectrum. The X-RAY emission starts in the middle of the UVB-UVC spectrum and those rays can also fluorescent the matter. What I wanna say with all of this is that this small globe might emitting a very little dose of X-ray Radiation. It's not dangerous at all (with this dosage) but it can be dangerous if you don't know what you're doing. Keep bringing us those impressive videos about science.. You're the best!!!!
@@alshayda4168 That seems to be an electromagnetic radiation spectrum analyzer. But I'm not a radio physicist so I can't say for sure... It is arranged to count the frequency of the light, because xrays are also light the only thing is that we can't see them with our eyes.
It kinda uses Toshiba linear CCD TCD1304AP intended for POS scanners. Trick is, this POS scanners CCD kinda not rated for less than 400nm and should be blind in over 1100nm.
@@NeonRelaxationCorner The plasma ball cant emit X-rays for multiple reasons.The glass will block X-rays up to about 20 keV.The power supply is only about 5 kV.The gas inside becoming plasma has a voltage drop less than 5 kV.The pressure of the gas also prevent electrons to accelerate to high enough speed.So any X-rays produced are less than 5 keV which cant penetrate even thin glass.
@@mernok2001 the glass won't block 20keV. I know it's a very small electron energy. The X-RAY tube is a literally a glass lamp with a vacuum inside of it.. But if we had a glass lamp and we were giving 20keV and above at it, the X-rays can actually pass through. That's why why portable xray machines, are able to emit 20keV are also having a lead case around the tube, except the area xrays must get out, just because xrays even in that low energy can pass through the glass of the tube. And the glass of those tubes is much thicker that the plasma ball glass. So when it comes to the plasma ball, I didn't said that emits dangerous amounts of xrays, I just said that it can emit traces of xrays because the spectrum spikes at the frequency of the UV-C radiation. It emits xray radiation but in tiny amounts.
Considering how much visible light that globe puts out, and how the measurement barely registers it compared to the UV part. Then this globe seems like a nice UV source....
We have quarantine in the army atm, I'm not infected but we do a lot of disinfecting of rooms here now... Some smartass thought it was a wise idea to alongside using disinfectant alcohol spray to also set up a UV lamp for a class.... Later that night most of my group had their eyes super dried and hurting and the side of the face is pretty much like burnt from the UV... Don't mess with UV lamps guys.
I work with Corona Discharge Reactors for making ozone. From my experience if you plasmatize nitrogen with oxygen present (even as H2O), you get NO3 - NO4 and if water vapor present, obviously the more destructive HNO3. Its quite a problem in the swimming pool industry. Good luck finding elastomers that can survive O3, NaClO, Hcl and HNO3. Everything else is usually Ti or PTFE. I suspect you might be right about the Hydroxy radicals. We use them all the time when combining water, O3 and UV at 253.7nm for AOP systems. Which is a very effective commercial water sanitation system. If I was making cheap plasma balls I'd probably make some (cheap) effort to use dry gas, or you'd likely get condensates and crystals forming eventually.. What happens if you put the plasma ball in a cold place, Upside down so you can see if anything condenses?
@@tdtrecordsmusic unfortunately we don't get to test the pools by swimming very much. So not as cool as it could be lol. Mostly just a boring desk job. Very occasionally get to zap stuff with angy electrons or melt stuff with acid.
The monster magnet is essentially Godzilla: anything in its way in destroyed without care or effort. The monster magnet cannot be stopped. It will never stop.
Transformers work because the AC voltage on the primary causes the magnetic field of the core to change and thereby inducing a current to flow in the secondary. The huge magnetic field of the magnet overwhelms the ac induced magnetic field and prevents it from changing shutting off the the current in the secondary
Hey Brainiac! As a kid I was able to"control my tv" when I put my hand over a plasma ball. I would put my flat hand over the plasma ball and point the flat side to the ir receiver on the tv. As if my hand was a mirror reflecting light. Now I know I was kind of right. The tv would respond as if I was pressing random buttons on the remote. It would change the channel, increase sound volume, change color settings etc. When I tell this to people I can tell they're thinking I'm bullshitting them. Is there any possibility you could try this? I don't have a plasma ball anymore and you seem to have one that emits some IR. Would love to see someone else try this!
I could be wrong, but I think modern IR remote controls transmit digital codes, not analog ones like in the olden days, so probably a modern TV wouldn't react to the plasma ball.
My coworker has a plasma ball that when you touch it it dials the business phone on his desk. We were messing around with it and it turned the intercom on the phone on, pretty funny.
Yeah your dad was a joker he was pressing the buttons an lett you believe it was you! Sorry to ruïne your dream hahaha 😂 im a dad also an my son also thinks he can do great stuff
Thanks, Snow. The loud noise alone told me this wasn't my best idea ever. Luckily, I am a little more experienced with such setups than the average Joe and Jane ;) Thanks for the concern and watching!
Have you had the ElectroBOOM near death experience yet? I know he has to be being more cautious than it appears but he still gets me almost every time.
Same, but at least he wore gloves. Though, hearing what I guess is the um of the transformer amplified by the big desk and magnet spooked me thoroughly.
@@brainiac75 That loud noise did sound to me your giant magnet was vibrating, lifting itself slightly as the AC current went on an actractive state (agains this magnet) then going to a repulsing state... Am i right?
@@TwinShards super late but that's basically it. You can tell by the sound it makes. The adapter is rated for an input of 230v at 50hz, and the audible note of the magnet against the table is a G1, which is also 50hz [well it's more like a G half sharp 1 but close enough]. There is also an additional dominant harmonic of 100Hz, or ~G2
2:30 So instead of saturating the coil of the plasma ball with DC current, you are doing it with steady flux lines from the magnet. You are making an impromptu saturable core reactor out of what was not intended to do that. Intentional ones controlled 100's even 1000's of amps with a 4 to 20 mA signal for industrial heating control, now replaced with far less expensive, smaller and lighter thyristor phase angle switcing. Very cool demonstration there, thank you. I hope to see if you try lowering the transformer from the top towards the ball, keeping it further from the core.
It's not exactly recommended... The trick is to not let the transformer freely accelerate towards the magnet. Otherwise it would quickly gain momentum to make some damage. The thick gloves take away the worst of the pinch, but I felt it anyway... Thanks for the concern and watching :D
@@brainiac75 Could you please not do that again? :) I really don't get scared about anything but that test.... Would really hate if you lost a finger with these monsters :(
I have a vague memory of reading that the early plasma globes used a nitrogen-oxygen-argon mixture - approximately 78%, 21%, 1%. In other words, air. Cheap and readily available. Could it be that in your cheaper globe?
The problem isn't the gas, it's the light emitted by the gas. Specifically the UV light, which can give you some serious sunburns. As he said in the video, you NEED to wear sunscreen when around that globe.
@@taelim6599 The gas alone isn't the problem, but it is not the gas alone - it's the gas in the presence of the electric field. So, the gas type used is important.
All these years I've been carrying an electrical field tester with my carpentry tools not knowing that a volt ohm meter can also measure electrical fields. I love your channel, It inspires thought from me. Even the comment section is wholesome.
I got excited seeing you use a spectrometer probe to measure the wavelengths given off by the plasma balls.. I am currently using a NIR probe to determine chemical composition of a homogeneous mixture of glass, paper, and plastic! My field of research is horticulture so it is a very neat endeavor for the research work I am doing! What kind of spectrometer are you using?
Braniac75: Search for Lasertack LR2. I believe it is made by Aseq Instruments and based on their LR1 but branded for the European market by Lasertack. Living in Denmark, the LR2 was just easier to get. Available on eBay.
I got one of these plasma balls a couple of years ago, and it's a fascinating little doodad. I naturally took it apart, and noted the three or four basic components - transformer, electrical 'transmitter' wire, wire wool 'receiver', and glass (or pyrex?) dome. Then I put it back together and tried using different or extra 'receivers': wire wool or metallic ribbons make some brilliant effects when simply held up to the glass (carefully!)... I also kept noticing the gas smell - so now we know, quite likely Argon. I wonder if I was getting lots of UV as well...
Oh boy, the UV Plasma ball is scary. You should share the information about this model and where you bought it, just imagine someone gets this thing for a kid or something like that 😱
And whats scary is it would be primarily face and hand burns from looking at it close up and touching it, but lets not forget the eye damage it would cause as well.
You shouldnt saturate transformer coil, especially the ones connected to mains, Xl drops to zero, thus the current through primary is only limited by the resistance of the wire, thus it can overheat and burn. Also dont saturate small SMPS transformers in phone chargers, they will blow up instantly.
Hi Mario. I am fine, thank you. No major troubles in my life. Just the usual, annoying, small problems everyone always faces in real life. Hope you are alright too, which isn't a given here in 2020...
You cannot get sunburns from that, since the actual power delivered by the light is small. What is worrying is that it can mutate your DNA, since it has a lot of UV-B.
Interesting. Though I wouldn't really worry that much about the UVB, it doesn't look particularly intense except for at the contact point, so unless you're putting your eyeball up to it and staring down the plasma filament I doubt the irradiance is sufficient to cause any harm.
@the color red It moves so smoothly as if being repulsed in a dampened, magnetic way. I thought it was a post production video effect til the enormity of preserving the foreground while erasing the background with such flawless results came to light.
I have the large version but I also have an old "Lightning" model that has brilliant white +greenish white lightning strikes that start at the top and streak to the bottom by the sides of the cone. It seems more powerful than even the large intense plasma ball. What gasses did they use for the lightning ball based on how I'm describing the colors and its actions?
Did anyone else notice a deformation of the light around the globe when the magnet neared? Look at the black bulge on the right side of the globe - it deforms just like the T.V. The plasma is affected, just not the arcs? Times: 1:15 - 1:30, 2:05 - 2:33.
@@sethbettwieser hmm... it's plausible that that was all. Maybe my eyes are playing tricks on me, I thought cardboard doesn't normally move quite like that, even if it's ovoid and inclined and that more was happening.
I did, but I was waiting for the video to be over before I said anything. Looks like a strange black body effect? 🤔 I noticed the light shield, but the protruding shape appeared to be responding to the proximity of the magnetic field to the globe.
I remember watching you in my youth before I had my own youtube account and laptop... to say I am extremely happy to have stumbled upon your videos again would be an understatement :) so glad you're still making vids
6:50 fun fact: I once tried to measure the speed of a lego motor by shining an LED through the peg holes on a gear, at first the oscilloscope gave static. Then I moved the lego motor closer to the floor and it cleared up. What I assume happened was similar to this but it was radio waves instead of electrons and also in the fact that it is invisible interference.
I was literally googling yesterday what gasses were in those plasma balls. Today I was searching for helium plasma tubes and somehow got to your video, with no helium in it, but exactly what I was searching for yesterday. Thank you sir.
I never considered that magnets could affect a transformer, but it makes lot of sense! If you saturate the core then it starts to draw tons of current, since it's basically a short circuit at that point.
Lead singer from monster magnet shows up: “Oh wow man that is cool, what is that? A plasma ball? You can buy that? Thanks for introducing me to these fantastic lamps.”
2:47 I was like "oh god, dont put a magnet on THAT?!" I was worried the thing would go up in smoke and maybe even flames or explode! (Un)fortunately these transformer are way too safe. Saturating the core means the primary side will draw WAY more current than it is supposed to, overheating it, and ruining the coupling between primary and secondary, leading to the drop in output voltage. With small transformers like this, the wire resistance of the primary is so high it would never trip a breaker unless it short-circuits. I was also surprised there was no effect on the plasma itself. The charged particles are still moving, even when it is AC, so there should be an effect. I'm guessing the effect is not noticeable because current in these plasma "arcs" is extremely low, meaning the amount of charged particles at any time is also very low, and since it is not a vacuum by any means, the ions will collide with neutral atoms constantly, randomizing their movement direction.
yup. a large transformer very likely would have exploded from the rapid increase in current inside the coils. not good. something like a standard transformer you see on your neighborhood power pole could easily kill you if it exploded next to you.
With AC, are the ions/anions not reversing direction (like with free electrons in a wire) at 50 or 60 Hz (depending on your local electric standard) meaning they’re reversing any field giving effectively, net zero field to work with? Or is it different for plasma/ion current vs. electron flow?
@@Will-kt5jk Yes, ions will move back and forth under AC as well. They are much heavier than electrons so they dont accelerate as quickly though. Of course ions are never confined to moving inside a wire. These plasma balls are running at something like 30 kHz AC, not just 50/60 Hz. The transformer can separate enough charge to sustain its output voltage, so the ions cant neutralize the charge and therefore the electric field. So the ions can only respond to the applied field.
*facepalm* That's not how any of that works. 1. Black holes are created by warping spacetime. Matter and gravity do that, not electricity and magnets. 2. The only way to get warping that severe requires getting matter close enough that it's density starts making lead look like foam. For context, nukes work a lot better when you compress their fuel, we've put a lot of effort into maximizing how dense we can get them during the moments of ignition, and they've never gotten anywhere close to the required density. 3. Even if you did manage to make one, the gravitational pull isn't magic, it pulls on you exactly as hard as anything else of that mass and distance pulls on you, the density just lets you get closer than you could get to anything else that mass without bumping into it and stopping. Or in other words... black holes massing under a billion tons need to run into something to be noticed by it. 4. Hawking radiation means black holes evaporate, and smaller ones evaporate faster. Anything under a million tons "evaporates" so fast it acts more like an mass-to-energy bomb than an all devouring maw. Good luck shoving anything into what is basically a firehose of plasma. 5. That also means making tiny black holes is harmless, as they dissapear almost instantly.
My first guess was the magnet interfering with the camera sensor but I'm sure that the camera isn't actually even near the magnet Edit: nevermind there's a black sheet behind the ball that he's pushing with his finger. You can him pushing it on the left
5:45 - Creepy killer piano music begins to play and there's a knock at my front door. I answer and find it's a big ominous evil magnet that leans in an tries to steal the iron in my blood. How and why did it know that I was watching a video on killer magnets?
When you saturate the core of a transformer with external field, you can blow up transistor driving transformer due to overcurrent. For 60Hz transformer, you can cause it to burn up.
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One thing I discovered by accident. MIG welding with a strong magnet holding your pieces together, will affect your arc like crazy. I thought I had run out of Argon gas when it happened. Took me a few minutes to realize what was really happening. Wonder how it would react with a big magnet like the one you have here? I wouldn't be surprised if the arc would just jump over to it. ☺
There's an older video on TH-cam where a guy has made a birkeland eyde reactor and made the arc spread out into a disc using two strong neodymium magnets. I tried to recreate the experiment, but I was too scared to go past 20x40 mm magnets, so my results were inconclusive.
what is the black mass in the globe ? did anyone else notice it come out of the globe ? starts to move at about 1:10 seconds into the video . is this the bending of light ??
"Were you too busy watching if I lost a finger?" YES, YES I WAS
Don't play with giant dangerous magnets 😐
I was most concernet with the power suply bursting, since it could move something inside and close a circuit
Ain't that the truth
Yes, quite dangerous, he could have accomplished the same thing by lowering the transformer on a board and kept his fingers out of harms way.
Same
Lmao that black circle you put behind the large plasma ball to make it easier to see was freaking me out because it looked like a digital effect or something that responded to the magnet 😂
Same here. It took me a few mintutes to figure that out.
Same
Lol same
If it was EMI it would be more analog than digital
c'est pas drôle osti de concombre
> high UV emitting gases
> glass that doesn't block UV
looks as if it was made on purpose lol
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@@dhominyaugusto8649 ??
yeah we mains all miss you
but.. does it "kill" corona?
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This is the same principle that is used in magnetic amplifiers, commonly found in welding machines before the 1980s. They use a DC current to bias the core of a transformer into saturation, limiting the amount of welding current that can flow, in the same way that the strong permanent magnet saturates the transformer core, and effectively turns off the plasma globe.
Nice explanation then what happens with current rise on primary side doesn't it blow up ?
@@RobertXxx-uh6lr potentially, yes. Additional input power would have to be dissipated as heat
"Don't play with strong magnets and high voltage, unless you know what you're doing"
Instructions unclear, generator stuck in toaster
Forgot the kitchen sink.
Add water? LoL
@@jdrissel Just great, I think the toaster is pregnant now...
You're doing it wrong
Sent from my Griffin smart toaster
@@ParallelLogic can you even make a toast🍞
When you saturate the core, you dramatically lower the transformer's inductance and increase the current from the socket, essentially frying the primary winding. You got lucky there! Some more powerful transformers can even suffer a primary coil explosion from the ensuing overcurrent surge.
The small ones usually have a thermal fuse in the primary coil, that will open the circuit when it gets too hot.
que up styro-pyro: "man this plasma ball is kinda lame, lets make a 1.21 gigawatt version with old soviet parts!"
I literally found this channel while looking for another like styropyro. Glad to see another fan here 😁
Gigowatt
@JDM Cody ha ha! My wife overheard me watching one of his vids and asked what is he, twelve? No he’s like 40
Rookie numbers
1.21 Gchigawatts!!
Notice the black Aura around the plasma ball moves closer to the magnet then when the magnet gets close it is pushed beyond the other side of the plasma ball. 2:07
“I’m not doing that again”
“YoU hAvE tO”
Lol
hahaha
Same conversation my last two brain cells have
Rewatch it
could he have not used a fabric sling or something similar to hold it so his finders aren't in the way
Hello Brian. I'm studying Radiology for 2 years now. While watching the video and saw that the small globe was emitting and peaking at the UVA-UVB spectrum I was impressed. You know, X-RAYS are also part of the UV spectrum. The X-RAY emission starts in the middle of the UVB-UVC spectrum and those rays can also fluorescent the matter.
What I wanna say with all of this is that this small globe might emitting a very little dose of X-ray Radiation. It's not dangerous at all (with this dosage) but it can be dangerous if you don't know what you're doing.
Keep bringing us those impressive videos about science.. You're the best!!!!
do you know what kind of spectrometer Brainiac75 uses? How is it arranged?
@@alshayda4168 That seems to be an electromagnetic radiation spectrum analyzer. But I'm not a radio physicist so I can't say for sure... It is arranged to count the frequency of the light, because xrays are also light the only thing is that we can't see them with our eyes.
It kinda uses Toshiba linear CCD TCD1304AP intended for POS scanners. Trick is, this POS scanners CCD kinda not rated for less than 400nm and should be blind in over 1100nm.
@@NeonRelaxationCorner The plasma ball cant emit X-rays for multiple reasons.The glass will block X-rays up to about 20 keV.The power supply is only about 5 kV.The gas inside becoming plasma has a voltage drop less than 5 kV.The pressure of the gas also prevent electrons to accelerate to high enough speed.So any X-rays produced are less than 5 keV which cant penetrate even thin glass.
@@mernok2001 the glass won't block 20keV. I know it's a very small electron energy. The X-RAY tube is a literally a glass lamp with a vacuum inside of it.. But if we had a glass lamp and we were giving 20keV and above at it, the X-rays can actually pass through. That's why why portable xray machines, are able to emit 20keV are also having a lead case around the tube, except the area xrays must get out, just because xrays even in that low energy can pass through the glass of the tube. And the glass of those tubes is much thicker that the plasma ball glass.
So when it comes to the plasma ball, I didn't said that emits dangerous amounts of xrays, I just said that it can emit traces of xrays because the spectrum spikes at the frequency of the UV-C radiation. It emits xray radiation but in tiny amounts.
Considering how much visible light that globe puts out, and how the measurement barely registers it compared to the UV part.
Then this globe seems like a nice UV source....
Maybe it would be enough to kill covid.
@@Yea_I_Got_Nothing Yes, would surely make for an interesting greenhouse if one has a bunch of these scattered about the place.
The range of UV it emits is on the scale of DNA damaging, so it can cause eye and skin damage.
@@fluffyfetlocks so thats a yes for sterilization? xD
@@dlbattle100 you need UVC for sterilization.
4:50 neat how they dance.
That UV is scary.
Liked the little tension music in the background, fitted perfectly with what was discovered ;)
hahaha. agreed, i was thinking the same thing
Music that’s in every SCP narration
Yep agreed, that is exactly what I was thinking at the same time too. ☢️☢️☢️☢️☢️☢️☢️☢️
@@PorWik Lol, I kept picturing SCPs throughout!
We have quarantine in the army atm, I'm not infected but we do a lot of disinfecting of rooms here now... Some smartass thought it was a wise idea to alongside using disinfectant alcohol spray to also set up a UV lamp for a class....
Later that night most of my group had their eyes super dried and hurting and the side of the face is pretty much like burnt from the UV... Don't mess with UV lamps guys.
3:15 You remind me of a physicist who can't resist bringing a sphere of plutonium near a neutron reflector to see what it will do.
I work with Corona Discharge Reactors for making ozone. From my experience if you plasmatize nitrogen with oxygen present (even as H2O), you get NO3 - NO4 and if water vapor present, obviously the more destructive HNO3. Its quite a problem in the swimming pool industry. Good luck finding elastomers that can survive O3, NaClO, Hcl and HNO3. Everything else is usually Ti or PTFE.
I suspect you might be right about the Hydroxy radicals. We use them all the time when combining water, O3 and UV at 253.7nm for AOP systems. Which is a very effective commercial water sanitation system.
If I was making cheap plasma balls I'd probably make some (cheap) effort to use dry gas, or you'd likely get condensates and crystals forming eventually.. What happens if you put the plasma ball in a cold place, Upside down so you can see if anything condenses?
Que the liquid nitrogen!
sounds like a cool job
@@ga5712 you might need significantly lower temperatures than I was thinking for that.
@@tdtrecordsmusic unfortunately we don't get to test the pools by swimming very much. So not as cool as it could be lol. Mostly just a boring desk job. Very occasionally get to zap stuff with angy electrons or melt stuff with acid.
@@tdtrecordsmusic Ny thoughts exactly, what an intresting job
Thank you so much for this video. I had no idea how dangerous the simple plasma balls can be... out putting UVB... WOW
The monster magnet is essentially Godzilla: anything in its way in destroyed without care or effort. The monster magnet cannot be stopped. It will never stop.
BuT bRaInIaC cOnTrOleS It
If an alien scanned Earth for a tactical analysis, that magnet would have a little threat square appear around it.
An oxy acetylene torch would kill it pretty quick lol
"The monster magnet cannot be stopped" 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 You summed it up nicely 👍👍👍👍
[Happy Skreeeonk noises]
1:26 I do see bending. Look closer, you will see a brighter streamer going towards the magnet.
The transformer core was saturated by the magnet, so the current through the winding was getting too high. That's why the transformer was so angry.
Interesting
My speakers was going a little nuts, then my subwoofer started going nuts. That is when I knew the transformer wasn’t happy.
I was going to write the same thing.
@@droga_mleczna me too lol.
Transformers work because the AC voltage on the primary causes the magnetic field of the core to change and thereby inducing a current to flow in the secondary. The huge magnetic field of the magnet overwhelms the ac induced magnetic field and prevents it from changing shutting off the the current in the secondary
From the chaos to the little duo rhythmically dancing at 4:50 was interesting
Hey Brainiac! As a kid I was able to"control my tv" when I put my hand over a plasma ball. I would put my flat hand over the plasma ball and point the flat side to the ir receiver on the tv. As if my hand was a mirror reflecting light. Now I know I was kind of right. The tv would respond as if I was pressing random buttons on the remote. It would change the channel, increase sound volume, change color settings etc.
When I tell this to people I can tell they're thinking I'm bullshitting them. Is there any possibility you could try this? I don't have a plasma ball anymore and you seem to have one that emits some IR. Would love to see someone else try this!
I could be wrong, but I think modern IR remote controls transmit digital codes, not analog ones like in the olden days, so probably a modern TV wouldn't react to the plasma ball.
My coworker has a plasma ball that when you touch it it dials the business phone on his desk. We were messing around with it and it turned the intercom on the phone on, pretty funny.
@@Seegalgalguntijak I wouldn't know, but you might be right. This happened about 20 years ago with a tv that was already old by then.
Yeah your dad was a joker he was pressing the buttons an lett you believe it was you! Sorry to ruïne your dream hahaha 😂 im a dad also an my son also thinks he can do great stuff
@@superpsycho8982 Hahaha yeah I thought about that! Even when I was a kid. Needless to say, I tested it when I was alone too.
0:16 this used to be our tv years back
Nostalgia!!
3:10 this is the most empathetically anxious I have ever been
Thanks, Snow. The loud noise alone told me this wasn't my best idea ever. Luckily, I am a little more experienced with such setups than the average Joe and Jane ;) Thanks for the concern and watching!
Have you had the ElectroBOOM near death experience yet? I know he has to be being more cautious than it appears but he still gets me almost every time.
Same, but at least he wore gloves. Though, hearing what I guess is the um of the transformer amplified by the big desk and magnet spooked me thoroughly.
@@brainiac75 That loud noise did sound to me your giant magnet was vibrating, lifting itself slightly as the AC current went on an actractive state (agains this magnet) then going to a repulsing state... Am i right?
@@TwinShards super late but that's basically it. You can tell by the sound it makes. The adapter is rated for an input of 230v at 50hz, and the audible note of the magnet against the table is a G1, which is also 50hz [well it's more like a G half sharp 1 but close enough]. There is also an additional dominant harmonic of 100Hz, or ~G2
2:30 So instead of saturating the coil of the plasma ball with DC current, you are doing it with steady flux lines from the magnet. You are making an impromptu saturable core reactor out of what was not intended to do that. Intentional ones controlled 100's even 1000's of amps with a 4 to 20 mA signal for industrial heating control, now replaced with far less expensive, smaller and lighter thyristor phase angle switcing. Very cool demonstration there, thank you. I hope to see if you try lowering the transformer from the top towards the ball, keeping it further from the core.
Your fingers in between the transformer and beast magnets made me get sweaty palms, It looks so dangerous
It's not exactly recommended... The trick is to not let the transformer freely accelerate towards the magnet. Otherwise it would quickly gain momentum to make some damage. The thick gloves take away the worst of the pinch, but I felt it anyway... Thanks for the concern and watching :D
A piece of wood to keep the transformer away from the magnet could have been helpful maybe
@@brainiac75 Could you please not do that again? :) I really don't get scared about anything but that test.... Would really hate if you lost a finger with these monsters :(
@@MeriaDuck I was thinking that too why not use a piece of wood as a safety buffer -
@@josephmazzeo9413 That's how he put those two magnets together.
7:18 I'm using the lead as an antenna to pick up the radio frequency the electric field emitted
Woah, that UV! Time to screw a plasma ball to the ceiling and lie under it for a while
For a bad tan or germicidal reasons ;) Thanks for watching!
@Unity Sorry officer, I just ordered 100 plasma globes because they look neat.
@Unity no. the light output per watt is very very low.
Countryballs STRONK!
- "Were you too busy watching if I lost a finger?"
Yes, that's exactly what I was doing 😂
I have a vague memory of reading that the early plasma globes used a nitrogen-oxygen-argon mixture - approximately 78%, 21%, 1%. In other words, air. Cheap and readily available.
Could it be that in your cheaper globe?
Yeah, at most it could be deoxigenated... But that ball is filled with low pressured air :(
The problem isn't the gas, it's the light emitted by the gas. Specifically the UV light, which can give you some serious sunburns. As he said in the video, you NEED to wear sunscreen when around that globe.
@@taelim6599 The problem is the gas, because it emits the UV.
@@taelim6599 the ionized gas emits the UV
@@taelim6599 The gas alone isn't the problem, but it is not the gas alone - it's the gas in the presence of the electric field. So, the gas type used is important.
What is the dark thing behind the plasma ball at 1:17 ? (at right of it)
One of the most soothing and informative channels on TH-cam, you deserve more subscribers.
Thank you! Finally I got the explanation, why the plasma strings are not bending in the magnetic field!
2:06 What is happening to the outline of the glass sphere?
I was wondering too, this black aura is really strange
It's just the black cardboard disc used for a background
A lot of these plasma globes have a black plastic hemisphere on half of the glass envelope to provide a good contrast background, that's what this is.
@@jhonbus but why does it move when the magnet gets closer?
@@CaseyShontz Looks like it's outside of the glass and just getting pushed
"YNG YUH ELECTRONIC CO." @2:56 lmao
1:29 best way to turn off a plasma ball lol
Install a magnet inside the base, use a coarse threaded bolt to adjust how far away it is from the transformer, now you have a dimmer.
@@Skinflaps_Meatslapper if it goes wrong then it’s a grenade
@@amogus6770 Not a grenade, but perhaps a smoke canister if you shorted the transformer. Turning off transformers by EMI is a thing.
@@Skinflaps_Meatslapper yeah
All these years I've been carrying an electrical field tester with my carpentry tools not knowing that a volt ohm meter can also measure electrical fields. I love your channel, It inspires thought from me. Even the comment section is wholesome.
Damn, next time I buy a plasma ball I need to bring some fluorescent paper
I got excited seeing you use a spectrometer probe to measure the wavelengths given off by the plasma balls.. I am currently using a NIR probe to determine chemical composition of a homogeneous mixture of glass, paper, and plastic! My field of research is horticulture so it is a very neat endeavor for the research work I am doing! What kind of spectrometer are you using?
Braniac75: Search for Lasertack LR2. I believe it is made by Aseq Instruments and based on their LR1 but branded for the European market by Lasertack. Living in Denmark, the LR2 was just easier to get. Available on eBay.
3:23 Scary AC humming sound!
0:44 my brain = "Oh shit this gonna be good..."
3:10 my brain = "Oh shit that's an evil noise..."
Finally someone has a video on this I’ve been wondering about it
I can't believe you stuck your hand in between that much magnet and that much iron. Absolute mad lad
Jeez, you'd think someone would've done some spectroscopy on those plasma balls before shipping 🥴
Its made for novelty not spectroscopy. Spectroscope is expensive equipment.
Really? Chinese vendors have even been known to ship radioactive waste as novelty items. Without any warnings, mind you.
spectroscopy equipment if expensive
I don't like that kind of talk. it upsets me
I got one of these plasma balls a couple of years ago, and it's a fascinating little doodad. I naturally took it apart, and noted the three or four basic components - transformer, electrical 'transmitter' wire, wire wool 'receiver', and glass (or pyrex?) dome. Then I put it back together and tried using different or extra 'receivers': wire wool or metallic ribbons make some brilliant effects when simply held up to the glass (carefully!)... I also kept noticing the gas smell - so now we know, quite likely Argon. I wonder if I was getting lots of UV as well...
The gas smell would have been Ozone.
Oh boy, the UV Plasma ball is scary. You should share the information about this model and where you bought it, just imagine someone gets this thing for a kid or something like that 😱
Yeah that would not end well. That thing is basically optimized for grilling eyes.
That’s on the same level as lead paint on toys.
And whats scary is it would be primarily face and hand burns from looking at it close up and touching it, but lets not forget the eye damage it would cause as well.
@@JoshuaPlays99 Listen little scientist. The UV types it emits do NOT have enough energy to cause skin cancer nor severely damage skin.
@@dustinbrueggemann1875 ^
You shouldnt saturate transformer coil, especially the ones connected to mains, Xl drops to zero, thus the current through primary is only limited by the resistance of the wire, thus it can overheat and burn. Also dont saturate small SMPS transformers in phone chargers, they will blow up instantly.
How are you doing?
Edit: is your life ok?
Hi Mario. I am fine, thank you. No major troubles in my life. Just the usual, annoying, small problems everyone always faces in real life. Hope you are alright too, which isn't a given here in 2020...
@@brainiac75 Ur such a wholesome guy 👍
Inside the plasma ball:
"Warning: Core overheating. Nuclear meltdown imminent."
Imagine having that thing on 24/7 in a bunker and getting a sunburn despite never getting any sunlight.
You cannot get sunburns from that, since the actual power delivered by the light is small. What is worrying is that it can mutate your DNA, since it has a lot of UV-B.
@@themanofiron785 welp...
Say hello to SKIN CANCER, Bunker Bennett! (☉｡☉) Mwahahahahaaaaa!
LOL "the magnet's path of destruction is getting longer... and it doesnt even care" great video
Interesting. Though I wouldn't really worry that much about the UVB, it doesn't look particularly intense except for at the contact point, so unless you're putting your eyeball up to it and staring down the plasma filament I doubt the irradiance is sufficient to cause any harm.
That SCP style music is perfect for your videos
1:17 how is the black stuff escaping the sphere?
I was just about to post the same thing. WTF
@the color red It moves so smoothly as if being repulsed in a dampened, magnetic way. I thought it was a post production video effect til the enormity of preserving the foreground while erasing the background with such flawless results came to light.
1:16 I can see the black space bending, but why can't anyone recognize this?
I have the large version but I also have an old "Lightning" model that has brilliant white +greenish white lightning strikes that start at the top and streak to the bottom by the sides of the cone. It seems more powerful than even the large intense plasma ball. What gasses did they use for the lightning ball based on how I'm describing the colors and its actions?
It might be xenon, krypton and neon mixture.
I am not 100% sure but it’s what I found after searching a little while
guy 1: hey, why are you putting on sunscreen?
guy 2: i'm about to turn on my plasma ball.
Did anyone else notice a deformation of the light around the globe when the magnet neared? Look at the black bulge on the right side of the globe - it deforms just like the T.V.
The plasma is affected, just not the arcs?
Times: 1:15 - 1:30, 2:05 - 2:33.
It's just a piece of cardboard behind the globe. He just bumps it with his hand.
@@sethbettwieser hmm... it's plausible that that was all. Maybe my eyes are playing tricks on me, I thought cardboard doesn't normally move quite like that, even if it's ovoid and inclined and that more was happening.
I did, but I was waiting for the video to be over before I said anything. Looks like a strange black body effect? 🤔 I noticed the light shield, but the protruding shape appeared to be responding to the proximity of the magnetic field to the globe.
Creepy interaction at a distance?.... Effect of the particular glass used for globe when saturated with magnetic field? Cloaking device anyone ;)
@@motormiracles I hope he tries to replicate it. Most radical ideas are created by accident or random tinkering.🤔
I remember watching you in my youth before I had my own youtube account and laptop... to say I am extremely happy to have stumbled upon your videos again would be an understatement :) so glad you're still making vids
6:57 Measuring DC with one wire
in the earlier parts of the video, why did the black disc behind the plasma ball move AWAY from the plasma ball?clearly visible @ 2:17
6:50 fun fact: I once tried to measure the speed of a lego motor by shining an LED through the peg holes on a gear, at first the oscilloscope gave static. Then I moved the lego motor closer to the floor and it cleared up. What I assume happened was similar to this but it was radio waves instead of electrons and also in the fact that it is invisible interference.
Gotta love the 60Hz hum of magnet/transformer interaction.
Based on the accent I assume it's a 50hz but still
Keep making "Monster Magnet vs ..." episodes!
I was literally googling yesterday what gasses were in those plasma balls. Today I was searching for helium plasma tubes and somehow got to your video, with no helium in it, but exactly what I was searching for yesterday. Thank you sir.
I never considered that magnets could affect a transformer, but it makes lot of sense! If you saturate the core then it starts to draw tons of current, since it's basically a short circuit at that point.
Ya. Not many ppl seem to get that.
5:50
I’ve seen that video YEARS ago. Crazy how I wound up back here. Deserves a sub 👍
Wooh, that's rather impressive. I've always had to build dodgy circuitry to saturate a transformer core!
Lead singer from monster magnet shows up:
“Oh wow man that is cool, what is that? A plasma ball? You can buy that? Thanks for introducing me to these fantastic lamps.”
2:47 I was like "oh god, dont put a magnet on THAT?!"
I was worried the thing would go up in smoke and maybe even flames or explode! (Un)fortunately these transformer are way too safe.
Saturating the core means the primary side will draw WAY more current than it is supposed to, overheating it, and ruining the coupling between primary and secondary, leading to the drop in output voltage. With small transformers like this, the wire resistance of the primary is so high it would never trip a breaker unless it short-circuits.
I was also surprised there was no effect on the plasma itself. The charged particles are still moving, even when it is AC, so there should be an effect. I'm guessing the effect is not noticeable because current in these plasma "arcs" is extremely low, meaning the amount of charged particles at any time is also very low, and since it is not a vacuum by any means, the ions will collide with neutral atoms constantly, randomizing their movement direction.
yup. a large transformer very likely would have exploded from the rapid increase in current inside the coils. not good. something like a standard transformer you see on your neighborhood power pole could easily kill you if it exploded next to you.
With AC, are the ions/anions not reversing direction (like with free electrons in a wire) at 50 or 60 Hz (depending on your local electric standard) meaning they’re reversing any field giving effectively, net zero field to work with?
Or is it different for plasma/ion current vs. electron flow?
@@Will-kt5jk Yes, ions will move back and forth under AC as well. They are much heavier than electrons so they dont accelerate as quickly though. Of course ions are never confined to moving inside a wire.
These plasma balls are running at something like 30 kHz AC, not just 50/60 Hz.
The transformer can separate enough charge to sustain its output voltage, so the ions cant neutralize the charge and therefore the electric field. So the ions can only respond to the applied field.
I like how the adapter is vibrating the magnet
It always amazes me how Content creators always manage to stretch the simplest task into a video that lasts over 10 minutes
Imagine you accidentally making an black hole and the whole earth is vanished in the blind of eye.
*facepalm* That's not how any of that works.
1. Black holes are created by warping spacetime. Matter and gravity do that, not electricity and magnets.
2. The only way to get warping that severe requires getting matter close enough that it's density starts making lead look like foam. For context, nukes work a lot better when you compress their fuel, we've put a lot of effort into maximizing how dense we can get them during the moments of ignition, and they've never gotten anywhere close to the required density.
3. Even if you did manage to make one, the gravitational pull isn't magic, it pulls on you exactly as hard as anything else of that mass and distance pulls on you, the density just lets you get closer than you could get to anything else that mass without bumping into it and stopping. Or in other words... black holes massing under a billion tons need to run into something to be noticed by it.
4. Hawking radiation means black holes evaporate, and smaller ones evaporate faster. Anything under a million tons "evaporates" so fast it acts more like an mass-to-energy bomb than an all devouring maw. Good luck shoving anything into what is basically a firehose of plasma.
5. That also means making tiny black holes is harmless, as they dissapear almost instantly.
Woah this video was really cool! Keep it up!
Thank you very much, Nik907. Much more to come!
Bravo! Excellently presented! Best of luck!
@1:28 black hole Ain't attracted to magnet
Seriously tho what is that black thing moving
My first guess was the magnet interfering with the camera sensor but I'm sure that the camera isn't actually even near the magnet
Edit: nevermind there's a black sheet behind the ball that he's pushing with his finger. You can him pushing it on the left
Thanks man, I’ve been wondering this for years.
1:53 that scared the hell out of me
3:25 Yes it's acting like a saturable core reactor. The effect has been used to dim lights in theaters in the past.
I love the sound of the resonance when you add the transformers.
Whoaho king of rock
*_Ну и что здесь необычного? При ядерном взрыве, тоже возникает мощный электромагнитный импульс, который гасит всю электронику._* 🙄😎
5:45 - Creepy killer piano music begins to play and there's a knock at my front door. I answer and find it's a big ominous evil magnet that leans in an tries to steal the iron in my blood.
How and why did it know that I was watching a video on killer magnets?
This is too funny when high 😂😂😂 "I got ma plashma borlls and ma big magnits"
Dude...
Big question: How do you know?
Excellent demo and info - as usual Brainiac75! Can you give us a link for the UV emitting plasma ball?
3:54 YES YOU ARE! DO IT AGAIN!!!
When you saturate the core of a transformer with external field, you can blow up transistor driving transformer due to overcurrent. For 60Hz transformer, you can cause it to burn up.
Thanks
Thanks for the video. If you quickly move the magnet near the plasma ball, it should affect the plasma moving.
The magnet messes with the transformer optimum Prime can be beaten by a large enough magnet
The use of the hydro wave method for the purification of aqueous solutions and thermonuclear reactions, December 7, 2017 - cloud.mail.ru/public/27Ad/4bDGJ92rH
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One thing I discovered by accident. MIG welding with a strong magnet holding your pieces together, will affect your arc like crazy. I thought I had run out of Argon gas when it happened. Took me a few minutes to realize what was really happening. Wonder how it would react with a big magnet like the one you have here? I wouldn't be surprised if the arc would just jump over to it. ☺
1:30 “hmm nothing notable happens”
BUT THE BLACK FILM IS POPPING OUT OF THE SIDE
FINALLY SOMEONE ELSE NOTICES THIS WITCHCRAFT
He is pushing it with his left hand
1:28 Is it just me or does some black stuff go out of the glass?
Can you be my siri voice?
There's an older video on TH-cam where a guy has made a birkeland eyde reactor and made the arc spread out into a disc using two strong neodymium magnets. I tried to recreate the experiment, but I was too scared to go past 20x40 mm magnets, so my results were inconclusive.
2:06 woah, what on earth is going on around the globe there??
He simply put a black balloon or sheet behind the plasma ball to make the plasma look better.
@@nielsdaemen thanks.
I thought that was really weird
what is the black mass in the globe ? did anyone else notice it come out of the globe ? starts to move at about 1:10 seconds into the video . is this the bending of light ??
0:50
*special containment procedures*
Anyone else notice the blackness coming out of the sphere? 1:29 looks cool
that looks interesting
Am I the only person that gets the chills when he gets to any scary results and he plays the SCP music…?
3:55 face reveal
Minute 4 "hope you like my effort and click a like" you won another subscriber there :)