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 Plasma speaker - flyback
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Joined: Mon Jul 30 2007, 12:25PM
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Good guys
heres is yet ANOTHER plasma speaker 
The circuit - from here 
Thank you Dr. Kilovolt. I have made some changes to the circuit (mainly add filters and add a GDT driver).
For the flyback - I've tested a total of 6, and it turned out that an old bulgarian AC flyback - sounded best.
Power consumption - around 120W, the spark can be extended to around 3.5sm and it easily starts at 2.5sm. At lower frequencyes the spark increases up to 5 - 5.5sm but it sufferes from sound quallity ... badly.
Aboud the sound - I am trully amazed how well that thing sounds ... it sounds better than my laptop ( just weaker and it can't do the low freq range ... well)
here some pics - what do you think ?
Cheers Dr. H.
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| Dr. 2N3055 |
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Joined: Mon Aug 13 2007, 06:07AM
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That's a very nice and compact setup. Did you take those pics with flash? It makes the arc look pretty strange in the pictures.
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| Dr. H. |
| Sun Dec 21 2008, 09:03AM |
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Good day sir
Yep - the pics were taken with flash, but in reallyty the arc isn't too different than that - it is yelow (what you see on the pic) with just a thin, barely visible, purple spark in the flame. The two tips of the tungsten electrodes are glowin in a very beautifull purple color (as it can be seen from the pics).
Cheers
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| aonomus |
| Sun Dec 21 2008, 11:08AM |
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I've always wondered if the distortion whenever plasma speakers or audio modulated TC's attempt to play low frequency (sounds like sputtering) could be removed by using a lowpass filter so only mid-high plays and overall sound quality improves?
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| DaJJHman |
| Sun Dec 21 2008, 03:20PM |
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in that schematic, is the resistor below the 2.2K one (in the top image) a variable resistor connected like shown??? or is that an error?
I plan to put one of these together... with some modifications ^_0
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| DaJJHman |
| Sun Dec 21 2008, 08:31PM |
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Dr. Kilovolt wrote ... Dr. H, nice speaker, cool to see someone build the circuit and it actually working  DaJJHman wrote ...
in that schematic, is the resistor below the 2.2K one (in the top image) a variable resistor connected like shown??? or is that an error?
I plan to put one of these together... with some modifications ^_0
It is a standard "trimmer". They usually (well, almost always ) have 3 legs, it really does not matter if you leave the 3rd leg floating or not, but for some reason I was in a strange mood and drew it the way I did (this is how it was drawn in old books in our country) The obvious improvement is the use of gate drivers. I don't see any other modifications which could help.
yeah I know what they are, it is just that the image in the schematic looked kinda weird and I thought it might have been something else...
anyways, the mods I have planned are not of a serious design nature, but rather of a, how should I put this without giving everything away, selection of one component and using it to it's full potential?
"I do not know with what weapons WWIII will be fought with, but I do know what will be used in WWIV: Sticks and Stones!"---- Albert Einstein.youtube website ---callsign KE5TUZ, Amateur Extra |
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| Dr. Kilovolt |
| Mon Dec 22 2008, 02:07AM |
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Dr. H. wrote ... Well that is what I also observed - without the drive chips, I coudn't go higher than 30-40khz - the fets were heating badly (the gate laveform was anything but good ) ... sooo adding the UCC now I am happily runing at 110khz and the fets are not heating at all, when no sound is played - ohh and that higher freq really makes a difference in the sound
Hmm, thats strange, it ran fine for me without the gate drivers just the gate waveform was a bit slow (but still good and resembled a square wave). Did you have the clamping diodes on the output?
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