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Registered Member #611
Joined: Wed Mar 28 2007, 11:40PM
Location: Hudsonville, Michigan
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I found this mot yesterday and I was wondering if anyone has ever see anything like this? It kind of looks like a flyback. I'm not very electronically inclined, so I'm having a little trouble figuring whats going on here. I see the transformer, capacitors and diodes, but beyond that I'm lost. Any info on this thing would be appreciated.
Registered Member #538
Joined: Sun Feb 18 2007, 08:33PM
Location: Finland
Posts: 181
That is a solid-state microwave oven powersupply where the "MOT" is a ferrite cored transformer which is being driven with high-frequency AC with the driver electronics.
Registered Member #530
Joined: Sat Feb 17 2007, 07:56AM
Location: Victoria BC, Canada
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Ahh, nice find! Basically you have your power supply for a big solid state Tesla Coil already prebuilt for you. Find another and you could run a dual solid state circuit into a voltage doubler.... who knows right? Endless possibilties!
Registered Member #611
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I don't know that much about solid state coils yet, or solid state anything for that matter. I'll hold on to it until I can identify the components and understand how it works.
I have tore apart 40 or 50 microwaves and have never seen one of these before, I don't know if I'll ever just happen to find another. Who knows though, I might get lucky.
Registered Member #89
Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 02:40PM
Location: Zadar, Croatia
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Most of new light ovens have these. As is, it's hard to use for a TC supply, it outputs only 4kV and is without filtering (100Hz buzz.)
Somebody clever enough could although hack it with a multiplier (which is easy with high frequency) and a filter cap on low voltage side, and power a TC. I haven't seen anyone doing that although.
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Marko wrote ...
Somebody clever enough could although hack it with a multiplier (which is easy with high frequency) and a filter cap on low voltage side, and power a TC. I haven't seen anyone doing that although.
As you can see from the circuit board there's already a multiplier/doubler of some sort.
I'm wondering, could you draw an arc off of one of these without blowing it up?
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As you can see from the circuit board there's already a multiplier/doubler of some sort.
Yup, but only 4kV for a magnetron. It simply imitates an iron mot with level shifter, and to power a TC it would need to be further doubled, and then used with resonant charging.
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