[Patrick] didn’t just want his name in lights. He desired his name in radiant plasma explosions, made by sending countless volts with a extremely thin wire.

This job is an experiment in capturing high speed pictures of exploding wires. [Patrick] wished to understand if he might shape wires in such a method that they would blow up into letters of plasma. Of course, photographic proof of this would be needed, as well as would produce an remarkable logo in any type of event.

To get photos of cable turning into plasma, [Patrick] very first needed to build the necessary electronics. A basic stimulate space was built on a big plastic cutting board – an excellent high voltage insulator. The big capacitors are charged with a pair of high voltage transformers, as well as the entire assembly is triggered with an optocoupler as well as a extremely beefy SCR.

Even though [Patrick] created the system for a low propagation delay, there was still the matter of catching an exploding cable on film. The camera delay different by about 120μs, however with a truly fantastic camera trigger, [Patrick] ultimately got some impressive pictures.

After getting the electronics as well as photography part of the develop down, [Patrick] counted on making letters out of broadening plasma. just shaping the cable into a letter shape before vaporizing it had no effect, so he counted on 3D printed channels to contain the plasma. After a few attempts, this really worked, enabling him to type the letters L, U, as well as X in an broadening sphere of vaporized wire.