The experiment notes that it will be difficult to see the charge unless
the room is darkened.
According to the snack directions with the neon tube/lamp, you:
You can also discharge the pie pan through a neon glow tube. Hold one of
the two metal leads of the tube in your fingers and touch the other lead
to the pie pan.
You just touch it to the pie pan. No need to attach it.
Let me know how it goes.
Deb
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Deb Hunt
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Exploratorium
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San Francisco, CA 94123-1099
dhunt@exploratorium.edu
On Sat, 25 Jan 2003 JAILLET72@aol.com wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> We're having a little trouble with getting a visible charge. We can see a
> spark if we are in a very darkened room only. How can we make the charge
> more visible. We went to Radio Shack and got a mini colored lamp (6 volts,
> 60mA) but don't quite know how to contact it to the pie plate or is it the
> leyden jar that we should wire the lamp to.
>
> We are trying to do this as a visual display at a science fair in the school
> auditorium and are concerned that the judges won't be able to see the spark.
> Can you give us some suggestions?
>
> Please reply to all if possible,
> Thanks,
> Travis Jaillet
>
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