{"id":20543,"date":"2020-08-23T14:07:18","date_gmt":"2020-08-23T12:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cornay.co.za\/wp\/?p=20543"},"modified":"2020-08-23T14:07:18","modified_gmt":"2020-08-23T12:07:18","slug":"a-miniature-power-supply-for-high-voltage-hacking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cornay.co.za\/wp\/2020\/08\/23\/a-miniature-power-supply-for-high-voltage-hacking\/","title":{"rendered":"A Miniature Power Supply For High Voltage Hacking"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’re looking to experiment with plasma, you’re going to need a high voltage power supply. Usually that means something big, complex, and (naturally) expensive. But it doesn’t have to be. As [Jay Bowles] demonstrates in his latest\u00a0Plasma Channel<\/em> video, you can put together a low-cost power supply capable of producing up to 20,000 volts<\/a> that fits in the palm of your hand. Though you should probably just put the thing down on a table when in use…<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
Finding the feedback coil with a multimeter.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The secret to the build is the flyback transformer. A household staple during the era of CRT televisions, these devices can still be readily found online or even salvaged from a broken TV. We’d recommend searching eBay for new old stock (NOS) transformers rather than risk getting blown through a wall while poking around in an old TV you found on the side of the road, but really it all depends on your experience level with this sort of thing.<\/p>\n

In any event, once you have the flyback transformer in hand, the rest of the build is very simple. [Jay] demonstrates how you can determine the pinout for your transformer even if you can’t find a datasheet for it, and then proceeds to assemble the handful of ancillary parts necessary to drive it. Housed on a scrap of perfboard and mounted to a piece of plastic to keep stray objects away from the sparky bits underneath, this little power supply would be a reliable workhorse for anyone looking to start experimenting with high voltage. Perhaps an ionic lifter is in your future<\/a>?<\/p>\n

Readers with a photographic memory may recall that [Jay] used this same diminutive power supply in his recently completed water-based Marx generator<\/a>.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n