On 11/18/19 3:20 PM, John Larkin wrote:
On Mon, 18 Nov 2019 20:17:16 -0000 (UTC), Cursitor Doom
wrote:

On Mon, 18 Nov 2019 11:49:12 -0800, John Larkin wrote:

No, I meant an ordinary light bulb.

John means a lightbulb with a tungsten filament in it which burns very
brightly when a current is passed through it. You have to have attained
great age, like John and I, in order to remember such obsolete atrocities.

But don't heat the filament, just apply a lot of high voltage, high
frequency stuff to it.


Yes, Ive applied clear incandescents to a HV source too! It can produce
a different display from an actual plasma globe depending on bulb vacuum
or type of gas used. One has to be very careful of the 25 watt
incandescents though if applied to high voltage. Some of those used to
produce x-rays because they were vacuumed but not backfilled! I think
manufacturers have corrected this nowadays, but 20 years ago they were
not backfilled.