Does anybody know if...

[Karlos]

I had an impulse purchase yesterday and got one of these circular plasma plate gadgets:



..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 :-)

[StevenJGore]

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?

[restore2003]

/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

 :-)

[Karlos]

Its a flat glass disc. Looks cool as hell :-)

[CannonFodder]

Her are some links fer ya :

 http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=10611

http://www.theforumz.com/forumz/showthread.php?threadid=58340

http://www.bit-tech.net/article/95/

Misc stuff I found along the way :-D

http://www.ai.mit.edu/~rahimi/coolmf/

[Bodie_CI5]

This one here from an Aussie forum (these people LOVE modding to the s###house)

Plasma Plate thingy

[Chunder]

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:

[vortexau]

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!!

[Roj]

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

[DanDude]

I like the pure-white model.  Looks like real lightning.  :-)

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

[Framiga]

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

[lempkee]

framiga: in a PC its ok , dont mean anything if millions of pc's die

but in an amiga...NONONONONO!!

[Karlos]

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 ;-)

[vortexau]

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