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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: Karlos on January 15, 2004, 01:31:09 PM
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I had an impulse purchase yesterday and got one of these circular plasma plate gadgets:
(http://www.itanyum.com/neon_rigide/plasma_plate/plasma_blue.jpg)
..except I had to get a red one (which I can't appreciate the hue of, but looks funky anyway).
Does anybody know if these devices build up a static charge? I am thinking to mount it into a side panel of my case, but not it it is likely to destroy anything :-)
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Does anybody know if these devices build up a static charge?
I doubt it very much! Not 100% sure though!
Can't make it out from the picture... does it have a flat surface, or is it a sphere?
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/Madame Berkovic with a bad american accent
I see a bright future for you and your kindren, you will win the lottery 5 times, you will be very happy.
/Off
:-)
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Its a flat glass disc. Looks cool as hell :-)
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Her are some links fer ya :
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=10611 (http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=10611)
http://www.theforumz.com/forumz/showthread.php?threadid=58340 (http://www.theforumz.com/forumz/showthread.php?threadid=58340)
http://www.bit-tech.net/article/95/ (http://www.bit-tech.net/article/95/)
Misc stuff I found along the way :-D
http://www.ai.mit.edu/~rahimi/coolmf/ (http://www.ai.mit.edu/~rahimi/coolmf/ )
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This one here from an Aussie forum (these people LOVE modding to the s###house)
Plasma Plate thingy (http://members.optusnet.com.au/bio2000/electric.jpg)
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Totally fantastic! :-)
It'd be great if the plasma ball could indicate drive access, or something...
One thought about the plate - the one I had (returned faulty, and refunded not replaced...) consisted of loads of balls sandwiched between two glass plates.
I'm sure that it wouldn't take much to dismantle a couple of plates, and make your own using a couple of rectangular sheets of glass/acrylic sized to fit in the tower properly...
Oh yeah - Swirly thing alert! Swirly thing alert! :lol:
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If the flat ones, are just round ones seen in Side Elevation only, then . . . .
~By touching it the spark should join the area that you are touching.
~Avoid touching ANY metal to it! The metal will heat-up by induced charge build-up!
~I'm fairly sure that you could destroy the files (& formatting) on a floppy disk by holding it close to (or against) the surface of the device!
~ Don't know how these devices are as to production of E.M. Fields or Radiation?
I've owned a spherical version for 8 years (or more).
You get a freaky display by touching your open mouth to it, and watching this with a mirror!!
When touching the device; you build a charge that you can discharge to another person via the finger-tip on your other hand!!
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I've got one of those things! I played with it for about ten minutes when I discovered that by tipping it a certain way I could turn my girlfriend's touch lamp off and on from across the room. I was amused, but she failed to see the childish fun involved. Maybe if I'd waited until after she finished reading...
women... :-?
:-D
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I like the pure-white model. Looks like real lightning. :-)
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These were used on Star Trek Voyager for the Borg Regeneration Alcoves, except they were green. Just check 7 of 9's Borg Alcove. They are cool looking. :-D
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Hi Karlos,
but . . are you jokeing? put those "static generator" inside a PC case?
Take it at least 2 meters from any electronic device.
Ciao
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framiga: in a PC its ok , dont mean anything if millions of pc's die :)
but in an amiga...NONONONONO!!
:)
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I was actually serious, which is why I was asking about the static charge level.
As it goes, it doesnt generate very much at all, although earthed metal does tend to get a current induced in it if it touches the surface. That would imply a well earthed construct to put it in would render it totally harmless...
Still I might not bother and leave it as it is ;-)
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Fly wrote:
These were used on Star Trek Voyager for the Borg Regeneration Alcoves, except they were green. Just check 7 of 9's Borg Alcove. They are cool looking.
lempkee wrote:
framiga: in a PC its ok , dont mean anything if millions of pc's die :)
Yeah _ That's okay! PCs all were assimilated, L-o-n-g ago!
(and resistance was futile . . . . MS' current went everywhere without any sign of resistance!) :-D
but in an amiga...NONONONONO!!
:)
For truth - Amigans should resist MS Assimilation (and beware of DMCA-encoded Plasma Balls)! ;-)
"Plasmas? We don't want no stinkin plasmas, in our A1 cases!" :-P