A true story about fluorescent lighting

[madbean]

I have one of those circular fluorescent bulbs in my magnifier. Everybody knows these can make things noisy so often when I am working on something on the breadboard/prototype I will turn it off when playing. The other day I was working on something fuzzy and something new happened. The bulb did not cause any noise in this case but it actually reduced the amount of fuzz and made it darker sounding. So, just a word of warning - without shielding things can get gnarly and always suspect everything!

[somnif]

This simply reinforces my hypothesis that Fuzzes are voodoo.

[EBK]

I suppose a pedal with a CFL sticking out of the top is only a little weirder than a pedal with a vacuum tube triode sticking out of the top. 

[Aristatertotle]

I suppose a pedal with a CFL sticking out of the top is only a little weirder than a pedal with a vacuum tube triode sticking out of the top.

You're on to something here...

[nzCdog]

That's funny!  A fluoro proximity lowpass fuzz-filter gizmo!  New project time?   

[somnif]

Hmm, I do have a couple gas discharge tubes sitting here waiting for me to finish up a project, wonder what madness I could put them towards?

(there is a rumor of "USB Killers" being deposited around campus so I've built a tester.... thingy, and got a couple tiny GDT's cheap as part of it)

[Axldeziak]

Extra points to build the pedal inside the compact florescent tube.

[lars]

Extra points to build the pedal inside the compact florescent tube.

1up if you build a fuzz with a Tesla coil in it. Then you can show that fluorescent light who's boss.