Make a high voltage power supply using a cfl lamp and a. But by replacing the fluorescent bulb of the cfl with a flyback transformer, spectacular voltages can be achieved. Flyback transformers monitors flyback transformers at. Here are some tips and tricks you should know before doing this yourself. All you need is a compact fluorescent light cfl and a flyback transformer. A compact florescent lamp is one of those swirly lightbulbs. Dug through a box of old cfls to see if one could really drive a flyback. In this video i made flyback transformer driver using old cfl circuit, and experiment with this flyback arc. Use a flyback topology to drive custom led lighting. Make a high voltage power supply using a cfl lamp and a flyback.
Try not to break the bulb, you just want to crack open the plastic. An easy way to power flyback transformers hackaday. Not only the zvs flyback driver is powerful, but it is very dangerous. High voltage from a cfl and flyback transformer youtube. Flyback transformers are found in tvs and crt monitors. Buy icstation dc 1230v high voltage arc generator zvs flyback driver kit for sgtc marx generator. A flyback transformer, sometimes called a line output transformer, are used in older crt tvs and computer monitors to produce the high voltage required to drive the crt and electron gun. They are usually anywhere from 14 to 60 watts, but once more, the bigger the better. Very easy hv power supply, you only need a television flyback and the circuit from a cfl lamp. Make a high voltage supply in 5 minutes compact fluorescent.
A very simple flyback driver circuit that only requires 2 electronic components. This is a instructable that contains scematic and pictures of a single transistor flyback driver. Get a big one, the bigger it is the more powerful your driver will be. You can easily pump several hundreds of watts into the flyback transformer and the output current would be around 50ma to 200ma or even more, which is way above the lethal rate which is 10ma. Pulling a ballast out of a spiral cfl might be a cheap and readily available option. To identify the primary coil, use a multimeter to test the pins.
Power converters free delivery possible on eligible purchases. A very easy setup to get high voltage from a flyback transformer, with using the circuit of a cfl. Now you need to identify the primary coil of the flyback. Flyback transformers are a great way to make a nice big electrical arc, but. When a lighting application requires a custom array of leds, a flyback acdc driver can be developed quickly and economically. This appears to be a brilliant idea id never seen it suggested. Common methods include using a transistor style driver, or zero. General description and circuit operation this is an efficient flyback driver for modern cylindrical rectified television. Im not sure why but some ballasts just dont like it and some transformers dont.
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