3" Plasma Ball, retail $9.99 (www.partycity.com)
Manufactured by (Unknown)
Last updated 01-16-13
The 3" Plasma Ball is a very nifty plasma ball; that is, it creates lightning-like streamers inside of a glass globe mounted atop the base that houses the electronics and a quartet of AA cells.
You may also power it with a "wall-wart" AC adapter that outputs +6 volts at 300mA if you wish; though you'll have to procure it elsewhere.
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To use your shiny new (or corroded old) 3" Plasma Ball, feed it first (see below) and THEN you can liven up that dead, boring party.
Using the slide switch on the back, slide it one "click" to the left to turn it on so that it projects slowly-changing patterns. Slide the switch one more "click" to the left to blink its LEDs while changing the configuration of which colors are displayed.
To neutralise the unit, slide this switch all the way to the right until it stops.
To feed your 3" Plasma Ball, turn it over ("business-end" down) so that the battery compartment & switch faces up. Unclip & remove the battery door, buy yourself an airline ticket and fly yourself plus the battery door to Hollywood (put it in checked baggage if necessary), bring it to the set of the new movie, “Halloween V: Season of the Bitch”, have the special effects crew grind it into microscopic bits to have those itty bitty bits implanted into millions of Kotex and Tampax tampons, and...O WAIT!!! YOU'LL NEED THAT!!! So save your airfare & just set it aside instead.
Tip the used AAA cells out of the 3" Plasma Ball and into your hand, and dispose of or recycle them as you see fit.
Do not use your foot to push them under the Lazy-Boy where the dog might find them, do not attempt to flush them down the loo, and for God sakes please do not throw them over the side of a dock where they might hit a flounder on the way down to the sea bottom.
Install three new AAA cells into the battery compartment, orienting each cell so that its flat-ende (-) negative faces a spring for it in each chamber.
Place the battery door back on, and gently push on it until it "clicks" into place.
Aren't you glad that you didn't fly that battery door to Hollywood where it would get ground into microscopic bits for the sake of some phoney-bologna fake Halloween movie now?
Current usage appears to top out at 112.80mA on my DMM's 400mA scale.
This is a decorative light, not a flashlight meant to be thrashed, trashed, and abused. So I won't try to drown it in the toliet tank, bash it against a steel rod or against the concrete floor of a carport in effort to try and expose the bare Metalguilmon - er - the bare Metalguardramon - um that's not it either...the bare Metalterriermon...mmm...the bare Metalkyubimon...er...uh...wait a sec here...THE BARE METAL (guess I've been watching too much Digimon again! - now I'm just making {vulgar term for feces} up!!!)...O WAIT!!! WHERE'S THE METAL?!?, let my mother's big dog's ghost, her kitties, my kitty or my sister's kitty cat piddle (uranate) on it, hose it down with my mother's gun, run over it with a 450lb Quickie Pulse 6 motorised wheelchair, stomp on it, use a large carpenter's hammer (claw hammer) in order to bash it open to check it for candiosity, fire it from the cannoñata, drop it down the top of Mt. Erupto (now I guess I've been watching ***WAAAAAAYYYYY*** too much of the TV program “Viva Piñata” again!!! - candiosity is usually checked with a laser-type device on a platform with a large readout (located at Piñata Central {aka. "Party Central”}), with a handheld wand that Langston Lickatoad uses, or with a pack-of-cards-sized device that Fergy Fudgehog uses; the cannoñata (also located at Piñata Central) is only used to shoot piñatas to piñata parties away from picturesque Piñata Island, and Mt. Erupto is an active volcano on Piñata Island), send it to the Daystrom Institute for additional analysis, or perform other indecencies on it that a flashlight might have to have performed on it. Therefore, this section of the 3" Plasma Ball's web page will seem a bit more bare than this section of the web page on a page about a flashlight that was born to be a flashlight and nothing but a flashlight.
Photograph of the unit, illuminated of course.
Photograph of the unit, showing my fingers on the globe to attact the plasma streamers to them.
Spectrographic analysis of the plasma streamers in this light; full spectrometer response band used (175nm to 875nm).
Spectrographic analysis of the plasma streamers in this light; spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 380nm anmd 780nm to highlight visible emissions.
Spectrographic analysis of the plasma streamers in this light; full spectrometer response band used (175nm to 875nm). Newest (01-13-13) spectrometer software settings used.
Spectrographic analysis of the plasma streamers in this light; spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 380nm anmd 780nm to highlight visible emissions. Newest (01-13-13) spectrometer software settings used.
This video shows the 3" Plasma Ball in operation both alone and with my fingers caressing the globe so as to attract the 'streamers' from the high voltage high frequency plasma locked safely inside the glass globe.
Just over halfway through this video, you might see a kitty cat dashing by -- that's my special little girl Nikki! :-)
This video is approximately 57.8674563211 megabytes (58,372,260 bytes) in length; dial-up users please be aware.
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Another video on YourTube showing the 3" Plasma Ball in operation both alone and with my fingers caressing the globe so as to attract the 'streamers' from the high voltage high frequency plasma locked safely inside the glass globe.
This time around, the video was shot in very subdued lighting.
This video is approximately 98.7313452346 megabytes (99,413,880 bytes) in length; dial-up users please be aware.
It will take no less than four hundred ninety three minutes to load at 48.0Kbps.
TEST NOTES:
Test unit was purchased at the Party City store in Federal Way WA. USA on 12-26-12.
This will be the first new web page on this website in 1993...er...uh...2003...um...I mean 2013!!!
UPDATE: 00-00-00
PROS:
Neat "lightning-like" electrical discharges in its globe
Has pale blue streamers & salmon-colored "pads" where the streamers touch the glass
Can be both battery-powered or AC-powered (with a +6 volts 300mA "wall wart")
NEUTRAL:
Fragile glass globe ***WILL*** become broken if product falls to floor from even a short height
CONS:
Sound-sensitive mode really requires loud sounds/music to trigger the plasma discharges (this is what nocked the last ½ star off)
MANUFACTURER: Unknown
PRODUCT TYPE: Portable decorative plasma globe
LAMP TYPE: Plasma globe
No. OF LAMPS: 1
BEAM TYPE: N/A
SWITCH TYPE: Slide on/mode change/off on lower side of product
CASE MATERIAL: Glass & plastic
BEZEL: N/A
BATTERY: 4x AA cells
CURRENT CONSUMPTION: 216.90mA
WATER- AND DIET PEPSI-RESISTANT: Very light splatter-resistance at maximum
SUBMERSIBLE: SNIETY MIKOLAJ ZA POMOCA SZCZOTECZKI DO ZEBÓW, KTÓRY SPADL W TOALECIE, NIE!
ACCESSORIES: None
SIZE: 75mm L x 77mm Dia.
WEIGHT: 264.60g (9.330 oz) incl. batteries
COUNTRY OF MANUFACTURE: China
WARRANTY: Unknown/not stated
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) 3" Plasma Ball, feed it first (see below) and THEN you can liven up that dead, boring party.
, let my mother's big dog's ghost, her kitties, my kitty or my sister's kitty cat piddle (uranate) on it, hose it down with my mother's gun, run over it with a 450lb Quickie Pulse 6 motorised wheelchair, stomp on it, use a large carpenter's hammer (claw hammer) in order to bash it open to check it for candiosity, fire it from the cannoñata, drop it down the top of Mt. Erupto (now I guess I've been watching ***WAAAAAAYYYYY*** too much of the TV program “Viva Piñata” again!!! 
