High Voltage Flyback Generator Part 1 (the generator and experiments)

Part 1 (this part) : I show you a high voltage generator (20kv) that I made many years ago by hacking apart the horizontal flyback section of an old tube TV set and do a few HV experiments (sparks, corona discharge, corona discharge motor and an electroscope).
Part 2 (next part) : I measure the current from the 20kV electrode (how much current does a TV picture tube use?) and I show how the flyback and deflection system of a vintage TV works and how that developed into some of the switching power supplies we use in our modern electronic devices. • High Voltage Flyback G...

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I once built a HF oscillator with a GU81M tube. The anode voltage came from 2 microwave transformers. The feedback to the grid of the tube consisted only of a small wire antenna and a resistor against GND. The anode was connected to a resonator coil. At the other end of the coil, a plasma flame usually ignited immediately when the anode voltage was switched on, sometimes one had to help with a WELL INSULATED piece of metal.
With the piece of metal I could draw up to 10cm long HF - arcs. The radiated HF - power has immediately crashed my PC in my house and 2 TV - devices have switched off. Fortunately, they still worked properly afterwards. Otherwise, my wife would probably have done terrible things to me. 😂
After that, I used the "device" only a few times outside and then disassembled it.

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Wow - I looked up those tubes - they are really high power tubes. It certainly makes my little HV generator look like a toy! With such large HF arcs your project would seem to have a lot of similarities with a Tesla coil, but with way more power. Certainly a good example of induced voltages messing up electronics - similar to a EMP. Was it just for fun? Or was there a use for you high power HF generator? When I first saw HF oscillator I immediately thought ham radio but it clearly isn't that.

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That was a test setup at that time, which went in the direction of CW - tube Tesla coil. In the middle of the residential area, the device would certainly have brought me sooner or later in trouble with our RegTP. Therefore I did not work on it any longer. The HF - power was surely >0,5kW, because the anode plate started to glow within seconds.
The oscillation frequency was about 6MHz.
(RegTP = Regulatory Authority for Post and Telecommunications in Germany.)

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@@kaysonntag74 That is very very cool! An incredible amount of power - year ago I was involved in digital HF communications and a few hundred watts was all that was needed to go continent type distances. You didnt make a video of it, did you? It would have been fascinating to see!

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This is not my video, but in principle it is a pretty similar circuit that is used there. I have my video also uploaded at that time, but I no longer know the name of the account at that time on RUclips.
So the discharge looked with me but also.
ruclips.net/video/_dLIVwTXCyc/видео.html