Self Starting Xenon Toroid
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- Опубликовано: 9 апр 2024
- So I got a basic oven together, baked and filled an empty 1 liter globe. And it made a toroid right away. Baking is needed to make a useful plasma toroid.
I next tried remaking the output coil of the driver so that it was more like huxman's. I was trying to fix the non-stable toroid. I was surprised when this simple change made the globe self starting. No static, no rotating, nothing except turn on the supply.
Wierd little mess of electromagnetic stuff.
Cheers.
Sometimes I just love the pure chaos of the RUclips algorithm I don't know why I am here or what I'm watching, but... Wow, that's cool.
Exact same thing just happened to me right now. Still really cool!
That ring is just free floating in the flask? That has got to be the coolest thing I've seen today!
Yes it is floating. It's a ring of ionized xenon gas that is being formed by teh magnetic and electric fields. Lots of poepl are doing them. You can even buy one.
bagelgen.com/
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@@cometboy1 That's pretty neat! Basically, like a neon (or in this case xenon) light but forming a ring instead of following a molded shape! Can't say I've ever seen something like this before lol
@@cometboy1thanks :)
Thanks for the tip and congrats on getting your oven together!
The oven was easy. Two chunks of galvanized 6 and 10 inch vent, a roll of high temp insulation and a roll of high temp heating rope that I didn't know I had. Can't go as hot as my old furnace but galv. vents is much lighter than firebrick. Cheaper too. 30$ the whole job...
Cheers.
You just made the next generation of ITER, nice !
Not to be too cynical about fusion but this came in on time and under budget.
Cheers.
Don't get rid of the walking wierdness... that's where the next physics toy always comes from...
Oldschool VX junkies been real quiet since this dropped.
Cool! I wonder how many other plasma toroid builders have achieved self-starter.
If you haven't made the bagel self starting I'd be amazed. You seem to be everywhere, doing everything.
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@@cometboy1what if you just use two coils?
Interesting!
If you get one to say on even without the glass id buy it! I could use a real life halo to play with
I feel like the field is looking something like a spindle torus by the way the plasma torus seems to expand and contract as it moves above and below the plane of the coil. I feel like the setup is creating either a weak or strong spot in the center (can't tell which). Then it gets biased to the top side and precesses due to convection.
Just my thoughts anyway.
Hope someone tries this experiment in zero G one day soon.
It's above my understanding to say whether you are right. Most people who try to explain the phenomenon say that the magnetic field form the exciting coil induces an electric field in the xenon. Which ionizes the xenon. From the many plasma tubes/globes I've filled I'd have to say that convection is an important part of the levitating effect.
Huxman has the best technical explanation.
.ruclips.net/video/YjTv-Hj0h18/видео.html
The zero g stuff will have to wait. The coil is putting out pretty intense electromagnetic interference. Would screw up a spacecraft bigly.
Cheers.
Try standing the xenon globe upright.
I'm wondering if you can use this as a sort of starting coil and then above that one have a regular coil to switch to, only have one on at a time, and maybe you can get a stable self-starting version?
That is an interesting idea. Further, is it possible to create 2 toroids in a single volume?
From what I've seen self starting is a mile stone, too bad it doesn't sound like you know why or how.
BTW: Where can I buy a xenon flask at a good price?
I only know of two sellers Strattman and the so called BagelGen. The Chinese are starting to break into the market so that might be another possibility.
Cheers.
Can the color be changed? If a small magnetic field is brought near the ring, will that also affect it?
I assume it would work the same way as with neon lighting - different elements will have different emission spectra.
Yeah, I've tried ALOT of different compounds, there's a ton of possible colorations
@@Zerg_Labs a blue color or green? Oh yeah!
@@j.lietka9406 Yes
Tom Cruise will be running after that soon I bet