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hen918
Thu Sept 25 2014, 08:26PM
hen918 Registered Member #11591 Joined: Wed Mar 20 2013, 08:20PM
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Couldn't you just whack together some ferrites into a flyback, wind your own secondary, rectify the output, and power with a good ol' Mazzilli ZVS driver? I've got 200watts out of a homemade flyback with a ZVS driver with an output at about 3kv. It drew 9A @24V. Used it for charging my coilgun cap'-bank.
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Thomas W
Thu Sept 25 2014, 08:52PM
Thomas W Registered Member #3324 Joined: Sun Oct 17 2010, 06:57PM
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Conundrum wrote ...

Interesting hack, putting a series limiter ie resistor and multiple capacitors in parallel.

I managed to do this once with CCFL inverters, while each would only output some 2KV at 12mA 8 in parallel would vaporize a steel pin!

See Link2


Haha, neat. im working on a driver for a load of transformers i had custom wound. 2kV @ 1A out on each of them @ 50kHz going to put 3 in series and 2 in paralell for 9kV @ 2A when i have enough money to order 4 more :) Can't wait to get them up and running.
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hen918
Fri Sept 26 2014, 12:58PM
hen918 Registered Member #11591 Joined: Wed Mar 20 2013, 08:20PM
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what are you going to drive them with?
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Thomas W
Fri Sept 26 2014, 01:32PM
Thomas W Registered Member #3324 Joined: Sun Oct 17 2010, 06:57PM
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hen918 wrote ...

what are you going to drive them with?

Fullbridge of CM300 IGBTs
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Shrad
Fri Sept 26 2014, 02:26PM
Shrad Registered Member #3215 Joined: Sun Sept 19 2010, 08:42PM
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Conundrum wrote ...

I calculated that in fact 18 off the shelf CCFLs with the gnd returns tied together with 2k2 balance resistors would with additional work (cough 2 stage CW inverting multiplier /cough) power a magnetron for my HTSC work.
Much easier to control, and instant on/off with no overshoot.

DIY 12V microwave would be cool although 18V@9A would be pushing the diddy little 2SD965s near their thermal limit with some heatsinks this would be just as reliable as the Panasonic inverter but 1/2 the size.



a nice use for a TV backlight board or two... I have some laying around and I had a look at a nice magnetron sputtering video a couple days ago... :)
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