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Powering fluorescent lamps with Tesla coils
« on: October 14, 2024, 07:11:14 AM »
I like to collect fluorescent lamps, even used ones that ordinary people discarded, for at least 2 reasons: First, they can be used for high voltage experiments as long as the gas filling is intact (mostly only the electrodes are worn) and second, discarding  them as regular waste is prohibited so I'm actually doing something good by taking them home from trash and preventing them breaking. I have also found 3 of them near utility poles.
With high voltage most of them work just as good and brand new lamps.
I have an interesting specimen in which the mercury was absorbed and only the gas filling is excited. Originally it was a 4000 K CFL, now it light up red.
/>www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrVs6QCzuW8
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pr0yquq6FK8
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Uf-0d5U2ii4

Some side notes if you want to try this: The electrodes of worn lamps get hot and sometimes can crack the glass. It it better to power them by capacitive or inductive coupling.
Do not let a spark jump to the glass tube, it can puncture it.

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Powering fluorescent lamps with Tesla coils
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