Flyback can't be AC Jay, you keep making the mistake. Flyback is the name for the "topology", pulsed DC to pulsed DC... but it's not the only way to get HV DC, you already played with an ignition coil, and that doesn't even have a diode on the output, yet gives DC (if driven right) 1EabqJJnWhc

btw it would make more sense (be more efficient) to modulate a Mazilli ZVS when you're using output AC. Look what CoolDudeClem tried, but there are other more successful attempts, just can't recall channel names.

@@sFeral As long as the spark output by an ignition coil dissipates all energy in the first cycle, it will be DC. In reality, most all ignition coils i've used have a ring on their output. As for flybacks - they are AC by nature. The addition of diodes is what makes them DC, or, an offset secondary balance will also do similar. Any secondary coil that is mid point balanced will output one terminal negative voltage, the other terminal positive. I tested my custom flyback to have an AC output.

@@PlasmaChannel I love it when random commenters try to get smart with the pros but they're actually wrong. sFeral, ya made me laugh. Do your damn research before ya make corrections.

where can i buy these parts?I want to buy too I'm trying to do something

I appreciate that. The trick is...i'm not an engineer. I'm a maker :P

@@PlasmaChannel 😂👍

You might be surprised...

@@PlasmaChannel what do you do for a day job?

Hey Mad Scientist! Good seeing you here. Yeah, after thinking about it, my audio equipment has a good 4-6" loop of COILED wire going from the audio receiver, to the camera. The audio equipment clips ontop my camera. The camera was only......5 inches from the arc during many of those shots. So I think the transformer pulses were artificially inducing a voltage in the audio equipment. Bummer - the arcs are hot and silent in person! At the right frequency.

@@PlasmaChannel that's another good point that I didn't even consider. EMI on the pickup. I wonder if having it shielded would help. I'm thinking like that perforated or mesh metal like on the older studio mic's.

Hey Nigel!! Thank you sir. Yeah, that table saw is the thing of dreams. Vetco electronics is the only store near Seattle.

In Tucson we have Elliotts Electronics

@@PlasmaChannel Vetco has helped me out so many times!

Hey Grandad, thanks. That's my style. More of an artist than an engineer!

I can do a follow up video, for sure.

@@PlasmaChannel cool! 🙂

@@PlasmaChannel You sir are a badass! Keep it up! Also, I’m in Snohomish County. We should grab some beers and have a lively conversation regarding electricity.

Thank you, I appreciate your support

Hey, I want you to know that I really appreciate your comment. MAKING the thumbnail, often, can take hours. To try and figure out the best way to show the world your video, with a single frame, is nearly impossible. But the fact that you think my thumbnails aren’t as good as my video is actually a huge compliment. Means you think my videos have good value. Thank you

Thanks Dave, it certainly pushes me further. Every video...I learn something

Thank you so much

Thanks Kimberly! If you have questions about any of my projects, don’t hesitate to reach out.

Haha right?! My father actually gifted me that for Christmas. It's the best. Musical jacobs ladder sounds amazing.

@@PlasmaChannel You could play Stairway to Heaven on a loop and put it in a time-out area or use it to remove house guests that have gotten that fishy smell. I love the song but after a few hundred loops pain sets in which explains most chemical abuse in '70's nightclubs.

​​@@PlasmaChannel Yeah! The Jacob's ladder is one of the projects of Mehdi in ElectroBoom! You can get a good idea from it! Very high voltage with powerful arcs!!😅 You are Great man😊

Thanks Abbey, haha, sometimes you need to say tender things in order to get stuff done.

You're a geek 😎😎

Thank you Aryan, thats really nice of you. Glad you enjoy my videos.

Thank you. Yeah, I mentioned in the video that I was thinking of encasing the windings in resin. I found a far better solution. To dunk the entire secondary in Super Corona Dope, then place in a vacuum chamber. It gets the Corona Dope in between the windings, and does total wonders.

It likely would increase audio quality. My driver circuit was really basic - some people get crazy complex with their designs....and you get what you pay for. Rather...you get what you design for. I was most interested in voltage output, with music as a secondary. But some plasma tweeters are incredibly clear.

Haha well thanks for commenting!

Or just get tungsten TIG welding electrodes, which are pre-made to an appropriate length.

Thank you!

@@PlasmaChannel your welcome! I always love checking in every so often to see what cool new thing you come up with. Every so often I build things myself it’s always fun. But heck, it’s not even close to what you build. Maybe one day I’ll figure out how incorporate some of the things you invent and make my invention just a bit cooler 👍 always love your content! Keep it up!

Thanks Chris. Man, the high pitch sounds so much worse on camera than in person. Honestly, it's almost silent in person.

@@PlasmaChannel might be audio compression from your video editing.

I haven't used one in a while since I made a power inverter!

I thought about that after I posted it this morning. I thought, "Why not a vortex speaker!?" So, i'm going to try it.

Oh that's a great idea! Dont know why I didn't try that....

Yeah lots of interference with high voltage arks sometimes they can fry your circuits if powerful enough!

@@patrickday4206 These arcs can make TL lights closeby flicker.

@@paulmichaelfreedman8334 lol

I found very good results using a totem pole driving stage. It worked fine without it, but the 555 kinda struggled to switch the FET hard enough, so I wasnt getting a nice crisp square output. made the fet run hot and limited the amount of current it could put out. a totem pole really improved the output drive waveform under load, ran the FET cooler, and my arcs doubled in thickness and meanness. the only other mod to this unit that made a bigger difference was going from 24v to 100v, which was a MASSIVE redesign for many reasons. you should be able to shoe-horn a few extra transistors on any design without much effort.

@arjovenzia exactly. And if you check the design on the 555, you'll see inside of the output on pin 3 is actually a little mini totempole. So by adding an extra stage, it's like steroids for your pwm lol.

That video honestly is planned. I've been in talks with BackMacSci - met him at a conference in November accidentally.

@@PlasmaChannel That's awesome to hear! I remember seeing a photo of you two from that. Can't wait to see your take on the plasma toroid!

Honored you enjoyed! Yeah, the thing i'm holding is just the other side of the high voltage output from the transformers. I have a wire attached to the output, then i'm holding that wire (safely), and bringing the wire towards the other high voltage wire.

@@PlasmaChannel thank you for that explanation. I see now what you mean on rewatching your KZfaq.

That flyback was more than warming up. It was melting lol

@@PlasmaChannel Ha ha! Good sense of humor) On my channel, the latest video. There the flyback works for 10 minutes, without radiators and with zero heating. The power supply is 1 bank of 18650, but you can also set it to 12 volts. By the way, can you give a link to a 3d model of the frame? I want to repeat.

Omg hahaha sorry about that

Wow, that's an honor! Lightning and thunder are friends.

Thanks!

I appreciate that!

It’s the perfect table saw…. For when size matters

Thanks for the feedback! You know, I tried (off camera) adding several values of air-cored inductors on the positive path to the transformer. I tried 1uH, 5uH, and 10uH, all with no change what so ever in performance. Though....the 10uH did seem to drop overall current draw (which makes sense). So you think I should try a Decup cap? I appreciate your feedback, greatly.

@@PlasmaChannel Yes, but it will do more to add a parallell capacitor from transformer input to ground. Which can supply the pulses needed. Every time the MOSFET turns on, it will draw current, which stops once it turns off, while most of the stored energy in the transformer is transferred to the high voltage output (a flyback is like a combination of the inductor in a boost converter and a transformer). Adding an inductor in series before the transformer will just waste energy (since the energy stored in that inductor can not get transferred to the high voltage side - it has to get dissipated in the MOSFET or snubber circuit). The reason the total current dropped with the biggest inductor is probably just because the input pulses got choked - which doesn't help much and you may risk to blow your MOSFET due to the voltage spike when it turns off. But a capacitor in parallell, can supply the current in pulses, without the need to travel all the way from the power source (possibly making your cables act like antennas and cause RFI). Then adding an inductor between that capacitor and the power supply, will further help filter out any remaining ripple and get a pretty much continuous DC to flow from the power supply. But it's the capacitor that do the main work.

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll try that!

No, it’s true advice. I just care about appearance and form more then function sometimes. It was designed to be a flat surface. So, the heat sink does get very hot after a few minutes… which is good enough for me.

@@PlasmaChannel Handsome, smart, *and* gracious :)