Using a Tesla Coil To Turn Sodium Vapor Into a Plasma

In this video I show you how to make a low pressure sodium vapor plasma.

[Nighthawkinlight]

FYI you should flip your LPS bulb upside down, or at least have it on its side. Sodium dripping on the electrodes and alloying with them is basically the only failure point of the bulbs. If you use it upside down or sideways it should last pretty much forever.

[Xeno_Bardock]

If you use multiple tesla coils out of phase, it is possible to get metal vapors to take shape of a galaxy or a star under right conditions, similar to how physicist Winston H. Bostick did back in 1956. Would be a very cool experiment to see if you succeed at forming fractal galaxies from plasma.

[jasonbaines]

You had my attention at “Torch” and “Tesla Coil”. High voltage and fire are the key ingredients for a good science experiment.

[GadgetUK]

Love the channel - I watch and learn with every video! I've noticed you advertise Established Titles - many of the large YouTubers have fallen for this - its a scam, see the video from Dave Jones (EEV Blog) or Scott Shafer.

[AdolfZcoder]

Pls show the measurements eg degree Celsius thnx

[sophiaisabelle]

Experiments like these are intriguing. Apart from it being intriguing, it really provokes our deep-rooted curiosities.

[CorporateZombi]

Almost all the streetlamps in the UK used to be sodium vapour lamps.

[thetruthcanhurt]

@The Action Lab *_Another amazing video!_*

[slainiae]

That was a real Beavis and Butt-Head laugh at 2:11 😆

[Macialao]

Hey! I think you should have a valve before the vacuum line (like in a Schlenk flask), or at least have a cold trap before the pump. Sodium vapour can be dangerous for pump internals

[hopolo]

now this is the type of science i wanna see

[nice]

This looks SO cool! Just seeing how the bright orange glow changes, moves and flickers/pulses is fun.

[Ninja]

I got to see a sodium lamp once in my school physics lab when we were learning about diffraction gratings and spectrometers. Really cool stuff

[jamesharding]

Can you do a video on a Rodin coil/ Vortex coil?

[MeatMachine]

I think it's cool that he's just a big a fan of his vids as the rest of us

[photonik-luminescence]

Great experiment ! I also wanted to try it. I originally wanted to create a low pressure sodium lamps with a glas tube, Helium, and sodium metal.

[ANG]

I love how authentic your reactions are 😂

[xdblack]

It would be pretty cool to make a lightsabre with this technique

[SimonBrisbane]

Great video. Please always put metric values on the screen if you wish to quote imperial values like Fahrenheit. Literally most of the world is metric.

[NachoMan]

Fun fakt: East Berlin used low pressure Sodium Lamps and west Berlin used Metal Halide(wich are white) and its still visable on satellite pictures.