Explain this

indyskyz · 5 Nov 2008 at 16:18

ok so i have a plasma lamp and next to it there is a normal lamp which held an incandescent light bulb. FORTUNATELY for reasons i don't quite understand the bulb broke

so i got out one of those energy saving ones that the electric company gave out last year

and woah......

indyskyz · 5 Nov 2008 at 16:20

Greenlizard0 said:
You've embedded the video wrong.

yeah lol ive linked too

indyskyz · 5 Nov 2008 at 16:32

it also makes the airwick freshmatic fire once a second

i think ill turn it off now i don't like radiation

thanks for the explanations guys

indyskyz · 5 Nov 2008 at 16:56

Dr.EM said:
The plasma effect uses a high voltage. The leakage of this high voltage is travelling through the bulb and back to earth through you. Only works with flourescent tubes as you've discovered. The picture under "field" may interest you:http://phileasblog.wordpress.com/

thats a cool link Dr.EM thanks

indyskyz · 6 Nov 2008 at 01:24

meghatronic said:
Light is radiation. As is heat....

just got to wait for some friends to come around to show them my discovery

anyone else got a plasma lamp and possibly a ceiling light tube that would be fun to test