The neon sign transformer, Marx generator, or voltage multiplier was the hard part of the project. But nowadays you can get cheap high voltage modules that are quite inexpensive. [PaulGetson ...

The spark climbing the increasing gap between a pair of electrodes is easy enough to create – just get a high voltage transformer (like a neon sign transformer), make a set of insulated ...

He fitted the old sign with new neon tubes, new transformers and new wiring and sealed it back up. “This is pretty hard work that nobody does today,” Eftekhar said of West. “He kind of just ...