Homemade high voltage transformer

Some photos of when I put together my home-made high voltage transformer. This was one of my first experiments with high voltage electronics.

Comments

[cyrusrom]

How many Secondary,Primary,Feedback or Additional winding were there?

[Alex1M6]

Can't remember the exact number, but the primary was around 5 and the secondary was somewhere around 100-200 turns of #40SWG.

[R.A.T.M]

you cane use an iron core to

[Alex1M6]

I wouldn't recommend it on DIY HV transformers, iron cores are highly conductive and this will just arc to the core. Ferrite is a very poor conductor so it is best to use that for this purpose.

[R.A.T.M]

ok i under stand iv made simler and i use a iron core ill have to try a ferrite core some time

[Alex1M6]

What sort of voltages where you getting out of your home-made transformer?

[R.A.T.M]

well im geting about a 5cm long arks so about 50k tried the ferrite core didnt wok any beter and nothing arcs to the core cuzz i put a thin layer of this stuff and i use a difrent driver than a bug zapper so ya i can help u if u need any on that tesla coil if u need any still

[Alex1M6]

Ah ok,

Are you on YouTube by any chance?

[R.A.T.M]

i have a youtube but no vidos

[Umniscient]

What frequency does this transformer run at?

[Alex1M6]

Its basically a crude trigger transformer and it all depends on how far apart you place the primary spark gap and the capacitor size (it runs on a 1kV bug zapper inverter).

[Umniscient]

Ah, so it's just a few hertz?

[highvoltageguy]

looks like 30kv