Recently bought a Phoenix Jr. and a Genesis Jr. as my first APD globes, and I am absolutely amazed.
The Phoenix rising is a wonderful display of fiery orange and ghostly pale white tendrils. At lower power the orange tips flare out like miniature fireworks, sometimes changing to a flickering display of deep red. The colors In real life are a bit different than on camera, a really unique white i've never seen before, and the tips are more of a pure copper-orange than the reddish on camera, which looks absolutely stunning.
These Jr globes fit perfectly on my shelf next to my other lights, and look incredible. Can't wait to expand my collection!
I was so amazed by these two globes, I bought a big promethean fire and a Tyrian Jr! So excited to see what they look like.
Works beautifully with my Genesis museum series globe but it has to get pretty close to my Emerald Fury Jr (been a few globe to wand contact situations with the smaller globe). Definitely an attention grabber, going to have to get another wand, or two, to prevent tiny human meltdown situations. It’s fun to see a new generation get into plasma art, I still remember my first encounter with a plasma globe at Radio Shack back in the 90s. Can’t wait to see what Aurora dazzles us with next!
I have bought many globes from this company. Their products are simply the highest quality, and best designed out there! (The mixture of inert gases - Awesome color combos, their prototype designs are freakin’ brilliant design).
Highest rating!
-Craig York (Dallas, TX)
For a truly unique experience you must order one of these Globes. The Tesla Edition, Promethean Fire, is absolutely worth every cent you spend on it. We watch it up two for 5 hours a day and feel like we're on our own museum. What a cool scientific application.
Thanks, The Evans
I Collect and have many plasma lights. This ones are really ONE OF A KIND, prototypes ! It feels great to have something that only few people on this planet can enjoy! Quality is great It came with matching base - it allows to position it in many ways. It is a piece of modern art .I do not know why but when "off" it instantly reminds me of obelisk from "Space Odyssey"- dark gunmetal mirror -beautiful on its own. How it looks on-you can see on videos. WOW!!! Wesss :-)
Absolutely incredible display! My first Aurora display was the Promethean Fire, and I have been very happy with its performance. This is my second globe, and the difference between the two series is immediate and striking.
The clarity of the plasma discharge in the example I received is breathtaking- the glass envelope containing the gasses virtually disappears in a darkened room, the reflections of the glass sphere the only significant testimony to its boundaries. The colors are vibrant and the contrasts are dramatic.
The Genesis series is aptly named- the plasma tendrils follow a well defined life cycle, each beginning as an energetic sharp bright white- blue pencil thin line, twisting upon itself in rapid undulating twists, then branching and green as the stream nears the globe walls, terminating in short pink/orange stumps and embers as the branches meet the glass. These thin bright blue tendrils rise and evolve, becoming a soft lime green as they drift upward, softening slightly before combining with other discharges or gently winking out as they reach the upward most point of travel. An absolutely fascinating display that photographs and video simply find impossible to convey.
A stunning example of the art.
Now being a seasoned client with a few globes from Aurora, a different series Globe caught my eye and didn't let go. Already an appreciative owner of the Promethean Fire series (each is wonderfully different, as the Globes log hours sparking up the atmosphere), I found a taste for what I had initially opted out of in the Genesis Series.
Only ever having viewed the Promethean Fire series in person, the Genesis series has striking qualities which I clearly overlooked in my initial quest and research. While the Promethean Fire will have a globe which has a dreamy bluish fog to contrast the sweeping wisps of green-white tendrils, the Genesis Globe is sparkling clear. This produces a saturated and vivid show of activity, as the defined green tendrils and red/orange tips seem fluoresce and look surreal.
Devoted to the Promethean Fire Globes at first, this was but a start on a now expanding list of my love for these 15 inch spheres sitting upright on a finely crafted wooden base which is as much part of the overall display as the globe itself: understand that without the time, thought, creativity which went into a base which doesn't detract from the globe, yet only adds elegance, and a 15 inch globe would certainly look "less than" if simply a solution was put under it without thought to the overall appearance.
Another win for the folks at Aurora... Steve, Jerry, and all - keep up the imaginative work!
Museum quality at home. Many tendrils, not too fast. Extreme when interacting. At low power in the dark produces flame effect with diffused tendrils. Purple and red produce nice warm effect. Great for mediation or as a showpiece for friends. Only really works at night, in a basement or with blackout curtains. Looking at a second one soon.
So glad I put a search into Google instead of just buying some generic plasma globe from elsewhere, the Jr. is incredible, have lived every moment with it so far, look forward to years of enjoyment ahead.
While I have enjoyed & love all the Aurora Plasma globes that I have purchased in the past: Tyrian Purple, Rising Phoenix, Genesis & Emerald Fury, I can without a doubt say that Promethean Fire is their best globe yet! I thought it might take a little more breaking in but right out of the box it has those thicker slower looping greenish tendrils reminiscent of some of those vintage 80’s Bill Parker plasma globes only bigger, nicer & brand new! All of Aurora’s Plasma globes offer something different, but Promethean Fire is a definite “home run” and I thank the folks at Aurora Plasma Design for bringing it to market & highly recommend it!
I bought this globe for my 7 year old son who told me that nikola Tesla invented the plasma globe and wanted one really bad. We settled on the Tyrian Purple globe and haven’t been disappointed. The quality is solid, the colors are crisp and the action is great. My only ask is that you let us know when your other color combinations become available again.
It's beautiful. Will buy another one this coming fall .
This globe is very cool for the price. Non-adjustable like my other globes but with loud enough sound the noise activation is neat
I just wish the power connection was more hidden, say underneath or on the opposite side of the power switch and plaque.
Wonderful colors from the mixture of gases, and the activity of the tendrils produces quite an array of sweeping whispy arms. The audio feature embedded in this model is a bonus: I have a white noise machine which sits next to it and has the globe dancing in rhythm. Being a seasoned client, with globes from the museum sized to the Junior series, and the magic wands, I’ll keep looking for the next creative idea. Thanks :)
Two of the three wands work well, but one isn't easy to make react. With the globe at full power, you can move it all around to maybe have it light up.
Also I got the Plasma Pearl (Lava Flow). This idea to add glass beads in the rod was really cool because it gives you a sense of the physicality of the phenomenon inside. Thanks for making these products, I am very happy.
I love this "Plasm Orb" (Neon). I don't know if I should say spoiler alert because some of these things are cool to discover in person when you are playing with with it. But anyway, it's amazing how easily/eagerly the orb end of the wand lights up when you touch the orb with your finger. On the lowest plasma setting the orb end starts glowing at a little over 4 inches away from the plasma ball upon contact with my finger, it looked like to me. Then on the highest plasma setting, finger contact triggered a flicker at around 11.5 inches away from the ball. Of course when you bring it closer gradually it glows brighter, and anytime you bring it close enough for the plasma tendrils to converge into a bright channel that streams into the wand, the wand goes from a bright glow into a spectacular pulse of red, but that distance at which the brink of sensitivity sets is impressive. I love running my hand up and down the rod to extend/retract the magic. Also if you fully ignite the rod section and press your pointer finger onto it and look closely at the crimson, you can see the crimson bend gently away from your finger. By the way I was using my Museum Series Phoenix Rising II. All of these products make it feel like you are magic and light is intimating with you in a way that makes light seem conscious.
once arrived i picked up the box and thought, did they just ship me styrofoam?? upon inspection and opening, the globe was in perfect condition but extreamly light.. plugged it in and turning the intensity up and down wasnt as smoorh as hoped. max intensity was fine but turning it down makes it blip from low to bursting medium intensity. all I can say is im glad i bought a small one 1st, here i was going to get the BIG one but after seeing and feeling the build quality, no thank you. i just boxed mine up and awaiting to give it to someone as a gift. Dissapointed.
We are sorry to hear that you did not like your globe. It sounds like you reviewed our large professional globes on our site and then mistakenly assumed that you would receive the same functionality and quality in our inexpensive small globes at 1/10th the cost.
Since you have re-packed the globe we suggest that you return it to us for a full refund of the purchase price. Please make sure that the globe is packed exactly the way it was received in the inner and outer cartons to ensure it arrives in unbroken 'As New' condition. We will waive the 20% re-stocking fee but you will have to pay the freight charges. Once we have received the globe in good condition we will issue you a refund. Thank you for your cooperation.
Aurora Plasma Design
I'm glad to find a globe with the neat discharge of what I think are xenon -helium and look forward to your green plasma globe,
I had been looking for quite awhile for the right Plasma experience to enjoy and share with company. The plasma products offered at Aurora Plasma Design really impressed me and they had the larger sized globes in many cool colors as well.
And the best part is that Jerry picked up the phone and answered all of my questions without making me feel less knowledgeable than anyone else. More importantly he guided me to the perfect design for me...
I would recommend Aurora Plasma Design's to anyone looking to get the right piece to display for there home.
Gary Fort Collins, Colorado
This is a great entry level globe, it is powerful and a wonderful demonstration piece for the fourth state of matter.
I'm always looking to teach my autistic son about the world around him. This plasma ball is a fun way to teach him physics.
Purchased as a gift for my 11 year old nephew. Shipped quickly and carefully. This is not a toy, it’s very beautiful and well constructed. The color is amazing! He’s been having a lot of fun with it and the magic wand. Very positive experience; I was able to talk directly to the seller. No fear, this is good stuff
After ordering the Promethean Fire (and watching several online videos
of the unit in action), I was fully expecting a large & beautiful plasma globe that would dwarf anything I might’ve owned in the past. However, when the unit arrived at my door (very quickly, I might add), I was *still* blown away by it’s sheer size and mesmerizing kinetic beauty in action. So much so, in fact, I ordered both the Phoenix Rising and Tyrian Purple globes less than a week later, and I fully plan on completing the line once the other two units are back in stock. As a kid, I owned one of those small, novelty plasma globes you could find at the mall for $20, and now, as an adult collector, it’s difficult to overstate how grateful I am to have discovered Aurora Plasma Design and their awesome works of art.
I’ve enjoyed the museum Quality plasma plasma Globes and over the years I purchased three of them.
I also enjoy this new infinity mirror Plasma portal. Watching the dynamic electrical arcs traveling off to infinity reminds me of the old TV series the time tunnel. Unfortunately it’s too small to unable me to travel Through time.
A relatively high-quality portable Bluetooth speaker was included with the plasma portal. It is needed since I found it even with my regular speakers on fairly decent volume it was not sufficient enough to trigger the audio response of the plasma display. Use the Bluetooth speaker in proximity to the plasma portal rectify this issue. A slight improvement might be having a miniature Jack for an external microphone or the ability to plug into a separate amplifier through a optical isolation circuit.
My hubby loves it. He want this since we married 17 years ago. I finally find a lab which made them. I will Definetly get more in the future. I highly recommend this! Thank so much for make my husband so happy!
We live extremely remote in the wilderness of the great bear rainforest. My kids go to school online and wanted to do a Tesla project for school and conduct some plasma globe experiments. We received our globe and WOW its absolutely fantastic. Its absolutely perfect for their experiments with the adjustable dial. The quality is excellent, the shipping was fast and the colors are incredible. My sons absolutely love it!
Great lights. Great customer service. Speedy delivery.
Skip the cheap ones on Amazon; Aurora's got the best globes online. Probably buy a Promethean Fury when they become available again.
Much higher quality than a couple I bought on Amazon. And the wand adds a very cool extra. Good to *finally* have a very good quality plasma globe, with a variable power knob. It also comes with a removable black half globe cover to accentuate the plasma lightning in a less dark room. Definitely recommend. (I probably average one review a year, but when it's a small, high quality company with a top notch product, I try to take a minute and do that.)
Purchased 2 plasma globes and they are a pure joy to watch.. I have had several of these globes through my lifetime and these are made far better then anything I have owned before. Worth every penny.. don’t hesitate !!
