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The igniter is a small plunger-like device with a metal base as one terminal and a wire as the other. It would be best to remove this from an empty lighter to decrease the chances of you blowing up the thing trying to take it apart.
The igniter's spark can get as long as around 3/8", not very big, but enough that you can get some visible branching. The device is very simple and easy to hook up to different spark gap terminals. The easiest is to hold the igniter on one hand and use your finger on the other hand as the other terminal. There is some nice branching with this WF (wire-to-finger) lightning. Just before the main channel reaches the skin it will split into two or three branches, then spreads out on the surface of the skin into even more branches. Wetting your skin can lengthen the branches on your skin surface. SDS Information from Drugs.com:: SDS medical information. Stedman's > SDS. SDS. Advertisement. Abbreviation for sodium dodecyl sulfate. Pain Relief. Advertisement. In The Pipeline http://www.drugs.com/dict/sds.htmlHOME | Projectdetail - Oxfam Novib:: It is also a follow-up on a first in which SDS provided emergency relief. The project aims to prevent malnutrition and contribute to restoring the http://www.oxfamnovib.nl/id.html?id=PROJ_DETAIL&pid=BAN-505422-0006745HOME |
The best branching I've achieved is using a stream of water from a faucet as a terminal.
A macro lens on a nice digital camera would be able to get some great images of this.
I know this sounds like a bad case of SDS, but once you do it you've got to admit it's pretty cool. I just wonder if larger igniters are made, or if you could make your own 'Tim Allen' version (more power!). Definately cheaper/easier than buying or building a Tesla coil or Van De Graaff generator.
wow...that looks pretty sweet!
hey what did ya shoot those with? pretty good quality shots up close
Here are some shots of these from the VX2100.
http://wvlightning.com/sparks2005/4.jpg http://wvlightning.com/sparks2005/9.jpg
http://wvlightning.com/sparks2005/8.jpg http://wvlightning.com/sparks2005/1.jpg
http://wvlightning.com/sparks2005/6.jpg http://wvlightning.com/sparks2005/2.jpg
http://wvlightning.com/sparks2005/3.jpg http://wvlightning.com/sparks2005/7.jpg
http://wvlightning.com/sparks2005/5.jpg
it says in his post that it was a VX2100 which is a high quality miniDV cam. they are frame grabs,
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