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Step 5Disclaimer
The circuits in this Instructable use very high voltages and currents.
These currents and voltages are deadly! You can easily hurt yourself, as well. Build this circuit at your own risk.
This type of high frequency high voltage current is used in surgical cauterizers. So if you get shocked you will burn yourself and cut your flesh. There is also a considerable fire hazard from the circuit.
Use the Nikolai Tesla's safety techniques when working with high voltages:
1. Only use one hand (put your other hand on your lap or pocket)
2. Wear insulating shoes
3. Use a dead man stick or insulated pliers when touching or manipulating the circuit.
4. Use a power bar with a thermal fuse rather than sticking the circuit directly in the socket. This will limit the current that will go through your body.
5. When soldering, disconnect the circuit from the power outlet.
Generally, in electricity it is the the current that kills. if the currents are low there is little danger even if the voltages are very high (think of Tesla holding the his Tesla coil).
This circuit has high currents which makes it considerably dangerous.
a 65W CFL can deliver 65mA easily (65W/1000v).
And if you look at the picture below, at greater than 50mA the little guy is dead.
These currents and voltages are deadly! You can easily hurt yourself, as well. Build this circuit at your own risk.
This type of high frequency high voltage current is used in surgical cauterizers. So if you get shocked you will burn yourself and cut your flesh. There is also a considerable fire hazard from the circuit.
Use the Nikolai Tesla's safety techniques when working with high voltages:
1. Only use one hand (put your other hand on your lap or pocket)
2. Wear insulating shoes
3. Use a dead man stick or insulated pliers when touching or manipulating the circuit.
4. Use a power bar with a thermal fuse rather than sticking the circuit directly in the socket. This will limit the current that will go through your body.
5. When soldering, disconnect the circuit from the power outlet.
Generally, in electricity it is the the current that kills. if the currents are low there is little danger even if the voltages are very high (think of Tesla holding the his Tesla coil).
This circuit has high currents which makes it considerably dangerous.
a 65W CFL can deliver 65mA easily (65W/1000v).
And if you look at the picture below, at greater than 50mA the little guy is dead.
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Red Wire
_________
/.................... |
| 0 0 0 9 .......|
| 0 [|||||||||||||||||||]
| 0 [|||||||||||||||||||]
| 0 0 1... + + |
\_________|
/ |
| 0 0 0 9 |
| 0 [|||||||||||||||||||]
| 0 [|||||||||||||||||||]
| 0 1 + + |
\__________|
this transformer :
Primary the "+"
Secondary min voltage "1" , max voltage "9"
the second wire the secondary coil is the big red wire that connect to on the screen.
i hope helped you,
can you help me now? please
i bought warm white CFL and this electronic plate output is 70volt, this is ok?
i connected this to the pins and "nothing" happend i connected right the pins are right, after it i smashed my transformer with hammer and saw i connected pins right! i dont know why it dont work, pliz help
Again, this is lethal Primarily if the current path crosses the heart. Those who have worked with (and even taken) more current and still post here did not have a current path across the chest.
A simple and effective precaution when working around high voltages is to always keep one hand in your pocket: worrisome situations occur when one hand is grounded and the other is touching a hot lead.
Volts jolt
Mills kill (as in milliamps)
Static electricity (the kind you shock your friends with after wearing socks on carpet) is thousands of volts but almost no current (amps) and does no harm. Add a single amp to that same charge and you are dead.
Volts jolt but mills kill.
Caps are sized according to both their voltage and capacitance, roughly at k*c*v^2 (k being a constant for a given type of cap.) For the same capacitance, a 330v cap would be roughly 48,000 times larger than a 1.5v cap (ignoring the fact that you can only make a cap so small.)
Flashes use DC-DC converters, usually flyback or something similar to convert the low 1.5-7.6v supplied by the batteries into the hundreds of volts necessary to make a strobe work.
caps store voltage
size depend on storage capabilty which is rated in farads
current does not matter
capera caps are tiny , rated in hundreds of volts and a few microfarads