Simple High Voltage Flyback inverter [without feedback coil]

Step 9 The result

Replies, questions or tips are greatly appreciated!
If there is anything I can add to this instructable, tell me ;)


Thanks for reading.

Comments

[Jimmy Proton]

On the third and fourth picture, the insulation is not conducting, it's just making a bunch of corona around it.

[Electorials]

it is conducting, the electrons go trough the insulation.

it's like my bad screwdriver, when I touch it the electricity goes trough the plastic into my hand.

[Jimmy Proton]

If it was conducting it would burn a hole through the insulation, trust me, I would know :)

I have also done this with a thick ceramic insulator and got the same effects and I know thats not's going conduct.

[Electorials]

I'm still very sure that it Is conducting :)
I asked a teacher at school.

[Jimmy Proton]

If it was conduction the electricity wouldn't spread out like that, it would be in a "straight" path like all the other photos.

[Electorials]

electricity doesn't follow the shortest path, it follows the easiest path.
Which is now, spreading over the insulation to get a larger surface (less resistance)

[aesquivel]

Jimmy is right, it would damage the insulation. They are corona discharges. If you connect it backwards (the alligator clip on the HV positive and the HV negative adjacent to the insulation) then you won't see the "electrons discharging" because the corona will be inside the insulation.

[Electorials]

Ok, I re-checked the defenition of corona discharges, and you are correct.
As long as the insulation doesn't break down, it's called a corona discharge.

But I'm also correct that it's "conducting" in one way, because I'm really sure there will be more current flowing when I move towards the insulation, instead of just holding the wire in the air.