Magnetic Drive Plasma Ball

Mrfixitrick and gang spin up a Plasma Ball with a magnetic drive, to test the drive for further experiments. We noticed the "run-on" effect of the plasma gases when stopping the Plasma Ball. We also began to see a "central tendril" effect at speed...shortly before a "near-catastrophic failure"! ;)

Back to the drawing board...but a fun test, and good to know that this magnetic drive can still work through 1/2 inch thick polycarbonate plate.

Inspired by the plasma technology of MT Keshe and the Keshe Foundation: http://www.keshefoundation.com

Thanks to Joan Jibuk Aeolian for permission to use his Hang drum music in this video.

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Hi, Mrfixitrick here...

and today we're going to give a demonstration

of the Magnetic Drive Plasma Ball.

Here's the idea with the magnetic drive.

Okay, we've got six neodymium magnets

glued to the bottom of the plasma ball.

There are six neodymium magnets also

in the top of this rotating disc here

which is attached to a

blower motor, a 12-volt blower motor inside this contraption.

With the magnets, these six magnets

are all North-up; these six magnets are also North-up.

And when they go together, they go together in repelling mode.

And it's all controlled by remote control.

You can see that the ball

has a magnetic coupling with the

with the rotating disc here. Part of my

vacuum chamber here...It's got a 1/2 inch thick

polycarbonate base, and we're going

to put the Plasma Ball inside of that,

and it's free to rotate

in there, and just going to set that on top

of our rotating magnetic drive,

and see what happens. Ok we've got

a magnetic drive! In spite of it going through the 1/2 inch polycarbonate;

the fields have to go through the polycarbonate.

Ok, this is our experimental apparatus here...

where we have a polycarbonate

structure with a Plasma Ball inside.

The Plasma Ball is lit up currently,

and it's self-powered with 4 AAA batteries

in it's base. So what we're going to do...this is a protective cover for this experiment

more than anything else. Eventually we'll make this into

a vacuum plasma container.

But for now, it's protection. And we're going to get

a nice close-up of this thing spinning at high-speed.

I guess we're ready, so let's dim the lights...

and fire things up! Oh, one last detail..

Safety glasses! One for you...

Thank-you. I have two observers here.

today, observing me doing crazy things...

Oh, one more thing I have to do here...

I've gotta put on my Lab Coat! Pretty snazzy, eh?

I'll just model it here, although you won't be able to see anything, but trust me

It's white. Therefore it's official!

That's what they teach us in school...wear white things,

and you can say you are official! Ok,

ahhh, lights...there we go...

It's a little wobbly, but we'll see. Oh look at that. That's pretty cool already!

We see with a little bit of spinning,

The plasma....it comes to a stop, the plasma keeps rotating...

The gases keep rotating. It has momentum! Exactly!

Ok, wheee!

That's pretty cool. so, yeah,

Yeah, it's pretty shakey!

I don't know how far we're gonna get with this! I'm just going to shut it down, and we

can watch it stop now, and it keeps rotating...

Cool! ...it also seems

the arms seemed to stay up high there, didn't they? I'll try that again...

Ok, I'm going to shut it down now...

Wheee, yes, the arms

all stay up at the top and rotate; they don't go down toward

the bottom while it's still rotating. That's pretty cool.

So what would be the speed, so far?

So far, we've only gone up to what 400 rpm or so. We're going to try

to shoot for like 3000 or somewhere in that range. See if its holding...

It's dubious that we're going to make it. I think we're gonna crash,

before that happens. If we get 1000, we should celebrate. That's ok, that's ok.

So, ok, it could just, well I don't know what it could do,

that's why we're trying it. I just have to double-check

if we are ok here, is anything weird going to happen? It shouldn't jump off the whole table

unless we have levitation...

and if that's the case, we can all jump for joy!

We'd have the cheapest levitating device yet! There I'm going to hold it like

this.

What do you have there now?

1000? Yes, very nearly 1000, 900

Look at the beam, it's amazing!

It's like it pops up all of a sudden. Wow, yeah!

see what it does...1100. 1100, Ok we'll shut it down...

Wheeee! Hmmm...

Interesting...I would have figured they would stay on the equator...

but it creates shapes, eh? Yes, it was almost an hour-glass shape

the way it looked in the camera, here.

I think we did something to it...something strange happened...

haha, poor thing!

ok, let's take it up again, let's take it up to

some sort of Vmax here...

Try to find the right rpms...

500...

800...1000

Ohhh! hahaha.

Nearly 1100 there. She popped out of her top there...

Ok, we need a pause for the cause, and regroup on this one! (clap,clap)

Yay! So far, so good!

Whoops...

Ah, the battery tray just came out and got stuck to the magnet...

Whoo!...Ok, enough of that...