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Thanks to everyone who voted for me. I must confess I feel more like a leg-end than a legend, but there you go.

It's been another incredible year spent on PF! Thanks to all contributing members for making it special! This year we're coming upon 25...

Thank you @Greg Bernhardt and all who voted for me. I am honored.:smile:

I am saddened immensely by this news. Phinds and I both joined within a few months of each other and he was one of my favorite and most...

The award polls close out tomorrow! Get your votes in!

Here's the link to a free PDF of that paper hosted by the US Department of Energy: https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/973080.

It would be interesting to know the voltages in the bulb in this Princeton paper. I don't have access to the paper.

The blue/red color change occurs in some globes halfway the streamer, so not always at the border between streamer and pad. A paper, by...

I think the potentiometer might be a ballast resistor (in series with the supply voltage and plasma material) with a resistance that can...

I happen to own one such ball where a potentiometer varies one parameter (voltage?) through a sliding potentiometer. In this video the...

We lost a great member. I will miss him.

I'm more familiar with arc lamps running at higher currents and low voltages. When they operate at high voltage, the currents will be...

Guys, we should vote Phinds to legendary status. He is a legend and will truly be missed.

Unless we see some data from the manufacturer for a particular bulb, I don't know that we have a good handle on the voltage, current...

A photo of a snowman and Charles Link (left).