Dismantled a CRT - Usable flyback transformer ?
I've been reading up on Jacob ladders and tesla coils for a while now, and decided to try to make a Jacob ladder (the tesla coil just looks scary and advanced)
I've taken a part an old CRT. And I was wondering if you could tell me if it looks usable.
I'm wondering slightly if I broke it when I removed it from the 'plate' it was stuck in. Pictures will show what I mean.
Sorry about the bad focus on the pictures. Taken with a phone, and it was slightly too dark for it to be able to take good pictures.
The brown cables looks like it's just fast in the flyback transformer, but I did not remove it.
I tried to get a good picture of the text that was on in case it means anything to anyone.
Also, what I can gather by looking at this is that the red cable is the high voltage cable, and the low(er) voltage cable is either the grey, or white one. - Is that correct?
Thank you very much for your attention, and thanks for any replies.
And this site is amazing. I'm just amazed at how creative people are.
Oh, and please let me know if I posted this in the wrong category
Zaek.
I've taken a part an old CRT. And I was wondering if you could tell me if it looks usable.
I'm wondering slightly if I broke it when I removed it from the 'plate' it was stuck in. Pictures will show what I mean.
Sorry about the bad focus on the pictures. Taken with a phone, and it was slightly too dark for it to be able to take good pictures.
The brown cables looks like it's just fast in the flyback transformer, but I did not remove it.
I tried to get a good picture of the text that was on in case it means anything to anyone.
Also, what I can gather by looking at this is that the red cable is the high voltage cable, and the low(er) voltage cable is either the grey, or white one. - Is that correct?
Thank you very much for your attention, and thanks for any replies.
And this site is amazing. I'm just amazed at how creative people are.
Oh, and please let me know if I posted this in the wrong category
Zaek.
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Those pictures of your flyback transformer look OK to me. Of course the way to tell if your flyback is good on the inside, is to wire it into a circuit, and then see if you can get scary purple arcs to come out of it.
There are a number of 'ibles in the related panel, on the right side of the screen there, ------------->
I'm going to recommend this one:
http://www.instructables.com/id/2n3055-flyback-transformer-driver-for-beginners/
I like this one, because the circuit is not too complicated, and also because I like the "chicken stick" method for finding the high voltage return line.
Oh, and uh, be careful, because high voltage electricity is dangerous, and there are mines over there, and mines over there too, and those goddamn monkeys bite, I tell ya!
There are a number of 'ibles in the related panel, on the right side of the screen there, ------------->
I'm going to recommend this one:
http://www.instructables.com/id/2n3055-flyback-transformer-driver-for-beginners/
I like this one, because the circuit is not too complicated, and also because I like the "chicken stick" method for finding the high voltage return line.
Oh, and uh, be careful, because high voltage electricity is dangerous, and there are mines over there, and mines over there too, and those goddamn monkeys bite, I tell ya!
Oct 4, 2011. 8:46 AMhighvoltageguy
says:
yep i would say that it is usable ican see that it has a internal capacitor so id say you got it from a pc monitor
Feb 21, 2012. 9:41 PMthanatos370
says:
Do all pc monitors have a transformer? if so, i can finally get one for all my projects!
Feb 26, 2012. 12:42 AMhighvoltageguy
says:
Yes all CRT monitors do but LCD screens also have a handy inverter (7000v)
Oct 2, 2011. 12:14 PMZaek (author)
says:
Hello again. I'm posting here because I don't know if you'd rather I open a new question or just do it here.
I've gotten slightly stuck again, because I'd rather be safe than sorry.
On the picture that had a black 'tiny thing with 3 pins' I was wondering if that is a transistor. It was the thing placed closest to the / on the heatsink. (there were also some others, but they were smaller and closed around the heatsink.
I tried to google around for information about this ..thing, and it pretty much returned nothing. I could be doing it wrong though, not really familiar with googling for eletronical parts.
However, how do I ..find out what is where on the transistor? - I've tried to search for it here, but I could not really find anything (as far as I understand you use tags for searches, but I'm not familiar with the technical expressions used for such things, yet.)
And I've done the primary windings (15) There is also a picture of a red wire, that I was planning to use for the feedback windings, unless anyone has strong objections to that.
And to give a general ide of how careful I'm beeing, when I tried to 'unload' the current that could have been in the high charge and generally anywhere, I used a chicken stick, and another chicken stick to poke the first stick. First one is made out of plastic, and the second is made out of three.
I've also got a few old car tape / radio players laying around, and an old CD player / radio. Is it likely that I could open them and use a transistor from there?
Also, I found a bunch of resistors in on the 'connection board'(where things are soldered on)
in the CRT I opened, a few of them beeing 220 ohm +/-5% and a few 20 ohm +/-5% ...As far as I've understood this, I can use them on this circuit, is this wrong?
Following this : http://www.instructables.com/id/2n3055-flyback-transformer-driver-for-beginners/?ALLSTEPS
The pictures here seem to .. resize. So I added links for the higher resolution pictures.
http://imgur.com/VKfgd
http://imgur.com/fJV20
http://imgur.com/DuH78
http://imgur.com/ylYUt
If what I write cause you to go "oh lord, you should never ever touch anything that uses electronics ever again" Then please let me know why, and what I'm failing horrible at, I'd really like to learn about this, as I've pretty fascinated with electronics since I was around 10 years old.
Thank you for any attention, feedback, warnings, and general / helpful / educational comments, even critique is welcome!
Zaek
I've gotten slightly stuck again, because I'd rather be safe than sorry.
On the picture that had a black 'tiny thing with 3 pins' I was wondering if that is a transistor. It was the thing placed closest to the / on the heatsink. (there were also some others, but they were smaller and closed around the heatsink.
I tried to google around for information about this ..thing, and it pretty much returned nothing. I could be doing it wrong though, not really familiar with googling for eletronical parts.
However, how do I ..find out what is where on the transistor? - I've tried to search for it here, but I could not really find anything (as far as I understand you use tags for searches, but I'm not familiar with the technical expressions used for such things, yet.)
And I've done the primary windings (15) There is also a picture of a red wire, that I was planning to use for the feedback windings, unless anyone has strong objections to that.
And to give a general ide of how careful I'm beeing, when I tried to 'unload' the current that could have been in the high charge and generally anywhere, I used a chicken stick, and another chicken stick to poke the first stick. First one is made out of plastic, and the second is made out of three.
I've also got a few old car tape / radio players laying around, and an old CD player / radio. Is it likely that I could open them and use a transistor from there?
Also, I found a bunch of resistors in on the 'connection board'(where things are soldered on)
in the CRT I opened, a few of them beeing 220 ohm +/-5% and a few 20 ohm +/-5% ...As far as I've understood this, I can use them on this circuit, is this wrong?
Following this : http://www.instructables.com/id/2n3055-flyback-transformer-driver-for-beginners/?ALLSTEPS
The pictures here seem to .. resize. So I added links for the higher resolution pictures.
http://imgur.com/VKfgd
http://imgur.com/fJV20
http://imgur.com/DuH78
http://imgur.com/ylYUt
If what I write cause you to go "oh lord, you should never ever touch anything that uses electronics ever again" Then please let me know why, and what I'm failing horrible at, I'd really like to learn about this, as I've pretty fascinated with electronics since I was around 10 years old.
Thank you for any attention, feedback, warnings, and general / helpful / educational comments, even critique is welcome!
Zaek
Oct 20, 2011. 12:31 PMhighvoltageguy
says:
it is called a n channel mosfet yes it is a transistor you can get them from any
great electronics store like www.maplin.co.uk oh btw im nine years old. use
this information a npn transistor is normally turned off and a pnp transistor
is normally turned on.thanks christian
great electronics store like www.maplin.co.uk oh btw im nine years old. use
this information a npn transistor is normally turned off and a pnp transistor
is normally turned on.thanks christian
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