Flyback Questions

[Alan Sailer]

Tom C,

That approach would certainly make my life easier. Unfortunately all modern flybacks have several built in rectifiers
and put out a signal that will not effectively drive my plasma tubes/globes. When I first started this project I did
exactly what you proposed and it wasn't good enough.

There is a small community of plasma artists (I'm no artist) that are currently suffering from a lack of good HV AC
transformers. I'm glad that I only need a few.

The video I posted shows some globes powered with a few HV coils that I bought from Ebay. They were not complete
flybacks just the secondary coil. I have them in oil for cooling and to help prevent breakdown.

Unfortunately I have no idea what voltage they are intended to support. For all I know I am grossly over-stressing
them and they might die in a few months.

Which is why I am trying to find a few flybacks of known performance to make some (hopefully) well designed and
reasonably spec'ed power supplies.

Cheers.