Homemade high voltage transformer by Alex1M6
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Some photos of when I put together my home-made high voltage transformer. This was one of my first experiments with high voltage electronics.


cyrusrom says: Oct 20, 2012. 9:09 AM
How many Secondary,Primary,Feedback or Additional winding were there?
Alex1M6 (author) says: Oct 21, 2012. 7:26 AM
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 says: Oct 19, 2011. 12:23 PM
you cane use an iron core to
Alex1M6 (author) says: Oct 19, 2011. 12:28 PM
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 says: Oct 19, 2011. 7:44 PM
ok i under stand iv made simler and i use a iron core ill have to try a ferrite core some time
Alex1M6 (author) says: Oct 20, 2011. 12:23 AM
What sort of voltages where you getting out of your home-made transformer?
R.A.T.M says: Oct 20, 2011. 6:16 PM
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 (author) says: Oct 22, 2011. 1:45 AM
Ah ok,

Are you on YouTube by any chance?
R.A.T.M says: Oct 22, 2011. 12:09 PM
i have a youtube but no vidos
Umniscient says: Oct 8, 2011. 1:50 PM
What frequency does this transformer run at?
Alex1M6 (author) says: Oct 8, 2011. 1:57 PM
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 says: Oct 8, 2011. 3:02 PM
Ah, so it's just a few hertz?
highvoltageguy says: Sep 10, 2011. 1:13 PM
looks like 30kv
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