Hot 4mm arcs, cuts through thin plastic, or sets fires.
Since 2005, hobbyists started making cigarette lighters from these.
Then someone started actually marketing them. Then someone else came up with a switched, double-arc version with a little "X"-shaped discharge, "Plasmatic(tm)."
Now everybody gotta get their own, apparently. Not five dollars though.
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 12.9 ms ] threadSeveral surplus electronics companies sell very small hi-volt power supplies called
"fluorescent lamp inverters" or CCFL drivers.
In fact, these devices
are actually solid-state continuous-wave "CW" Tesla Coils:
they produce one or two kilo-volts at high frequency."
PDS: Apparently, CCFL's -- would seem to be analogous to being the "Raspberry Pi" (low end, cheap, affordable, etc.) -- of Tesla Coils...
Since 2005, hobbyists started making cigarette lighters from these.
Then someone started actually marketing them. Then someone else came up with a switched, double-arc version with a little "X"-shaped discharge, "Plasmatic(tm)."
Now everybody gotta get their own, apparently. Not five dollars though.