The Powder Toy

'Jacobs Ladder' device, any ideas for improvement?

  • Firelight730     18th Dec 2010 Member 0 Permalink
    LoadSaveBlock(84811);
    Fixed it up a little bit.
  • Neospector     18th Dec 2010 Member 0 Permalink
    The problem with plasma and electrodes is that electrodes fire at all other electrodes. If you have to use it, replace the two pixels of electrodes with one pixel of electrode. Spark can jump over one pixel of nothing.
  • smjjames     18th Dec 2010 Member 0 Permalink
    Firelight730

    Not sure what you were trying to fix, but if it was the messed up wifi on one side, yea I got that. Anyways, that was while I was trying to experiment with using a central tower and putting some coolant in there using DEUT.

    I was also having some strangeness where the portal thing seemed to be spawning fireworks for some wierd reason, but I can't duplicate that again, so no idea what was going on there.

    Neospector

    Except that it is jumping over the insulated wire and the insulated wire is to help keep the main wire cool.
  • Cr15py     18th Dec 2010 Member 0 Permalink
    Well made, very interesting, nice to watch. In fire and fancy mode it generates, dare I say, pretty colors.
  • smjjames     18th Dec 2010 Member 0 Permalink
    Thanks

    I'm just improving the heat sink for that tower atm and it looks like a large block of diamond works really well.
  • Candunc     18th Dec 2010 Member 0 Permalink
    View in Heat Mode, after you spark it once. Makes a cool line of colours.
  • smjjames     18th Dec 2010 Member 0 Permalink
    Just bumping this to say that I've upgraded the device. After hearing of CateLites discovery that filter works better than diamond as a heat sink, I decided to replace diamond with FILT and it is even more effective. Plus it looks pretty cool to boot.

    I also tweaked the electrode arrangement in the tower to reduce the chance of two or more electrodes getting stuck in a loop.
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