DIY 100,000 Volt Arc Lighter Impulse Generator
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- Опубликовано: 2 июн 2024
- Hacking both an Arc lighter and flyback transformer, I demonstrate possibly the easiest way to make lightning-like discharges. This method is simple, effective, and produces close to 100kV. Good luck looking at lighters the same after this.
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NOTE: flybacks WILL have a shorter lifespan with this application
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Jay: Hold up I can do that too: "How to make a 100 000 V generator" 😜😜
Great job Jay keep it up💪💪💪 Make a video to make oil fly with this voltage multiplier😋😋😋
Heh, I got some voltage over here. Voltage to share!
It's amazing that you've " recently come across" this simple circuit with all of your amazing stuff. It's good to see the basics back.
Wow, nice pulse transformer you got there! Never would have thought that a flyback could survive such an abuse. By the way I did a small calculation and I believe the pulses you get out of this transformer are on the order of several microseconds in duration. So 12 cm seems about right for 100 kV ;) Pulse transformers do in fact prevail over Marx generators in any sort of pulse power application where you don't need a standardised pulse (so everywhere besides insulation testing).
Hi Vidduley, thank you! Yes, I stumbled across this method....just was experimenting around and found it. blows my mind the flybacks survive. I fried one...but i was pushing it past 5 inch arcs. CRAZY.
is that 8.3kV/cm? i apologize, for the past week i've been figuring out how much mine produces.
@@enriquethethird7253 well it depends strongly on the waveform and the shape of the electrodes. The only accurate way of saying is to measure directly with a voltage divider and an oscilloscope. I really don't like this 10 kV/cm thing that people seem to use at any time they can, but here for needle electrodes and microsecond pulses it's about right (say +-25%).
@@Vidduley ooooohh thanks for the insight, man!
Great to see a new video from you. Nice bit of work. Glad you tell people the one hand in pocket. It worries me a lot of channels on here play with high voltage but don’t show no safety to the people. Sometimes I think it would be good to show a video of the dangers of high voltage and how to stay safe before playing with microwave transformers and fly backs.
Thank you. I appreciate you commenting! The one hand rule is super important. I myself fail to remember it from time to time. However, it is good to enforce. To be certain I dont hurt myself, I rarely work around high power levels such as MOT high voltage sources. Too much risk for me.
Awesome work mate, definitely a build i will do. now i just want to see you build it up to your normal build quality, packaged in such a way to make it even cooler and fitting for your high voltage collection, and mine. i have a huge number of these flybacks here so will definitely be building one of these. keep up the awesome work mate.
Thanks Noel! Yes, I actually have grand plans to scale this up, and start a specific internet competition.
@@PlasmaChannel you know i will be up to this competition, been in a non oficial competition with you for some time, taking your projects and upscaling them slightly. so be very interested to have a more formal competition going. i love your style and get allot of inspiration from you.
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I am honored you joined the family. Welcome, to Plasma Nation
I've been studying the look of lightning to try to recreate it with VFX and this video really really helped thank you very much!
Glad that my video helps!
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That is a truly amazing amount of output for such a small input!! Neat build!
Yes, When I first saw it....I lost my mind. I kept pushing the spark and could not believe the output.
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Very cool! I work as a high voltage test engineer, and our device to generate up to 2.4 MV lightning impulses is about 35 feet tall. It's basically a marx generator (charges caps in series, discharges in parallel) with 14 stages, but each stage has two 2.0 uF capacitors each rated for about 100 kV. Each stage has an air gap and after the first one triggers at discharge time it's a fast chain reaction discharging all the stages. For practical purposes we dump the lightning impulse into things like transformer bushings meant to go in those huge transformers you may see at power generating stations or substations. I've only had the impulse generator up to about 600 kV though...
Techno, first off 1) Your job sounds AWESOME. 2) when your supervisors are not around, crank up that Marx generator (that is exactly what you described). Turn that sucker up to 100%. I am highly jealous that you work around such power. Cheers mate!
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This is so cool. Can’t wait to try this one!
Give it a try! If you dont get big sparks, try 1) reversing the primary wires 2)attaching to another set of two input wires with similar resistance. BE CAREFUL, have fun!
Plasma Channel Thank you for the tips good sir! 😎
Very impressive demo, as usual. I believe I understand the circuit, but a schematic would be helpful too. Either way, I'll try this. It differs from the usual flyback circuits in that it uses the primary directly, instead of winding an external coil around the ferrite core.
I believe in using the wires already built into the coil. As, they are designed by people with years of experience, so they likely are better than what most people could design.
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Great content Jay. I think we brother from another mother 😂 just subbed and ordered my capacitors 👍
Thank you for the compliments. I am honored to have you join Plasma Nation!
Great video, got a few fly backs lying around, now I have something to do with them
Give it a try. Be safe, but experiment away!
Plasma Channel I will, thanks for sharing your knowledge
Hi Jay, nice as always.
thank you very much!
Man your content is always on point. 👍
Thank you
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They're such loving, loyal sparks. I could almost see their smiles.
Cool vidio, who'd have thought that arcs like that were possible from such a small battery.
Thank you very much. I will be starting a competition soon, and it will make this spark size look very small!
Woo jay... Great work... Thanks for the video
Hello Mr Lee. Thank you.
Great job, Jay!
Chris!! Wonderful hearing from you! You’ve been missed my friend. Thanks for the compliments.
You love lightning ⚡ I love lightning and that's why I like you so much ,top most channel in RUclips of HV experiments⚡
Thank you very much. Lightning gave life to this planet. We owe everything to electricity. It runs our bodies, and the world around us.
Me and my friend even contested in the national exhibition in India about how we can harvest lightning energy ,we proposed a theory + idea with calculation proof but the judges laughed at us saying It's not possible at all 💔 ,WE still believe It's possible,just waiting for a chance we can prove it
Lightning will be a great renewable energy in coming future caused for global warming and as you have mentioned in the video if we can catch just one lightning it can power city upto 2-3 month . What's really awesome,problem is about energy crisis and the solution lies in Nature itself⚡
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You can use this to also drive an ignition coil, I use a MOT and some hv diode and some russian capacitor and discharged it into the ignition coil, from two coils I got 90mm sparks
That is impressive. That much power does scare me though.
The old Kirlian photography setups used the ignition coil from old Ford Model T cars. Although I suspect they are harder to come by these days. ;p
that is really a good one.
you should make video more frequently
I would love to make videos every friday. However, I have a full time job to support myself. So, I can only make videos at night, in my free time. It takes a while to make each video!
You're really good sir! Do you mind commenting about the rotating arc plasma lighter? Is it possible to make one on a slightly bigger scale?
Great build
Thank you!
That was badass... subscribed.
Welcome to Plasma Nation, and thank you!
This is crazzyyy!!
I got your desktop voltage multiplier going!
But in my excitement, I attempted to make it portable inside a old broken multimeter.
I was removing the safety switch from the lighter board, and one of those wires flicked over juuust tapping one of the smd caps at the far side of the battery on the board, made the smallest spark I’ve ever seen but fried something..
I was wondering if you’ve ever had any luck using the components of these lighters without the board successfully before??
Hey man! Hope all had been well!
I’m currently driving a flyback with a fluorescent ballast, and was just wondering if you’d think this would work with the ballast in place of the lighter? 🤔
This video is rock solid!
Thanks Dayton! Btw- I’m still waiting on final approval from fcc for outdoor tests of the radio.
@@PlasmaChannel Wow! They're so snappy!
Nice project sir.
Thank you
Jay
The master of lightning.....⚡
I can only hope.
The Zeus
Could you tell me whether there will be a plasma channel (spherical bubble) around the brighter discharge?
One of my favorites so far! So you discovered this all by your own tinkering? Is there a schematic at all for this? I am guessing roughly what it is, though currently im not familiar with arc lighter drivers.
I was wondering about making best use of a dual arc lighter. It's not clear in the vid how you used the output(s) of the lighter you disassembled. It looks like there are two independent windings on that output transformer, so did you wire the outputs in series or only used one of the arc winding outputs? Dual arc is the only sort of lighter I can get hold of, so that's my interest. Many thanks.
You are the lightning master.
Thank you, I can only hope!
Amazing work! Also, which wire would be the high voltage negative output? Thank you
Excellent! Thank you.
Hi kirk, I'm honored you enjoyed.
hey was just wondering if theres another way to get these parts as i cant get them with links provided and im confused on which diode and parts to get as there are different ratings for so many off these parts
*Me looks randomly at the tea i spilled over my crotch
Jay:
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You know you control static electricity plasma channel😊
Static electricity is kinda like lightning?
Lightning is merely static electrical charges......discharging. So, yes! I hope to control all static electricity one day.
Have something kinda simmilar for my potato canon igniter.
It's made of an electric fly swatter that charges up an capacitor and then I have an extra button to discharge it into a automotive 12v coil.
Not having a spark gap like you have and only one spark but it does reach about 10cm so I have two 4cm spark gaps in the canon in each end, and it always light at first try.
Would it work if I connect my flyback to your lightning tower circuit you made with diodes and capacitors?
Excelent video as always. But i have some 15kV capacitors and diodes left from making your Lightning Tower project. Is it OK for me to use them instead of the ones you used in this video, or would you recommend the 5-10kV ones?
Thank you. So, voltage rating on components only tells you the voltage the component can withstand before breaking.
@@PlasmaChannel Much appreciated. I am looking forward to your next video. Keep it up.
Nice one. Thanks.
Thank you!
Nice work. Can we use domestically the 100,000 volt. Can we light up the room light. If so. How?!
What if anything could be done to avoid the need for the oil bath? Is it the insulation in the flyback that is failing?
No, the internal insulation is amazing. The oil prevents the transformer from arcing around the outside of itself.
cool video for sure, recently i got euhm enchanted by plasma (cosmology).. a few years ago i almost got hit by lightning and i will never forget how impressive that was.. now what i wanted to say/ask is what do you think about the theory lightning is not (only) the result of static being built up in clouds trough convection but rather it being part of a larger current circuit, implicating its sunrelated also its linked to the theory of all weather being forced by the sun.. i think its very fascinating, also anthony peratt's (sure you know about his work at los alamos?) later work on linking petroglyphs with global observation of z'pinches most likely caused by a big flare or micronova.. there's so much things i could refer to like the valles marineres plasma-scar on mars and other plasma related possible evidences found around our solarsystem.. i find it just so crazy our whole universe could be plasma/electric in nature and popular science feeding us info about space rarely mentioning it.. (sorry for my bad english i'm belgian, dutch speaking :p )
I've been noticing that it's not so much the gadget that propogates electrical current but the configuration within the gadget that allows such propogation to occur. For me it's a complete change in how to view electricity.
Configuration is everything, in electronics.
Nice build!
How much short-circuit current do you think that can put out?
Short circuit current would not be interesting to measure. I do not know - I can look into it. Thanks!
Dayum. Thats impressive
Crazy stuff, I thought. When I first experimented with this, I lost my head.
This one is awesome!
Thanks a bunch!
I may be totally wrong but this seems eerily similar to how old-school tesla coils are activated with spark gap interrupters (except for the lighter drive circuitry of course), but the idea is taking a relatively high AC-voltage, half-wave rectifying it, which then charges a series capacitance, which triggers the spark gap in parallel, closing the circuit with the primary of the flyback, forming a series LC circuit, driving the flyback secondary. If this is the case, I cant help but wonder about matching the resonances between primary and secondary by altering the capacitance! I suppose it might affect other things though like pulse frequency
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Could you take the output and feed it into more capacitors, diodes and another flyback? Making the circuit explainable and produce ridiculously huge arcs
Great idea. Yes, you should be able to!
Nice bro I love high volt awesome. ..
I'm glad you enjoyed. Honestly, high voltage is amazing.
i like to use arc lighters to light paper the fire place but the arc is kind of small and it takes some time, how would I make the arc bigger. More powerful?
Very interesting !!!
Good video!!!
Thank you!
Hello, I want to build an ionic thruster or ionocraft. I woud be very happy if you shov us how to make one! :)
And I just want to ask you if this pover suplay in your wideo woud be ok? Your videos are impresive and amazing, thank you. Please never stop!
Greetings from Slovenia!
is it possible to add a voltage multiplier at its output to make even more voltage ?
Would grounding the return wire allow you to discharge to other grounded objects, or would it just fry the arc lighter? They seem pretty picky on what they'll discharge through.
Great question. It should, however, I do not recommend doing so as safety then becomes an issue.
@@PlasmaChannel Thanks! Would there be a way I could contact you for a business inquiry?
Awesome Video once again Jay!
Ever consider building a Vacuum Tube Tesla Coil?
Thank you Polonium! I have thought about VTCC, except that they tend to be bulky. If I can create a really compact, beautiful design, I will give it a stab.
Hey Im a huge fan and love this experiment. I never knew you could drive a flyback transformer with a spark gap thats too cool.
Id like to make a request for a video. since you love everything high voltage would you make a video demonstrating the Lord Kelvin's thunderstorm?
Ozymandias, thank you for being a subscriber! and heck yes that is on my list of experiments. It's coming up for sure!
@@PlasmaChannel Sweet! i look forward to that one!
Hey, can you do a video about fusion, and build a mini fusion reactor. (I think there are
ways to make it without radiation, but with the cool glowing effect.)
That's a great idea, and one which may take a bit of work. I can certainly put that in the cue for videos!
Hi Jay, could the oil be substituted with paraffin wax ????
Just letting you know, the power consumption on arc lighters is generally over 5 Watts (that’s why they generally don’t have an overdischarge protection circuit on the li batteries)
You are correct. However, since the power is being pulsed into the transformer, you can divide the 5 W, or 5 J per second, by the amount of sparks per second. When you do so, each 100,000 V spark is less than a joule, or less than a watt. Thank you for the input, I figured the output of those lighters was several watts.
(Subaru)I opend up my transformer.
And it has 3 whires on the middle and two tn the side. What should i do?
Very cool. I'm wondering if you're still working on earth bending. Keep up the good work.
I am indeed still thinking of an earth bending episode!
@@PlasmaChannel That's Cool. If we suppose the sparks touch you , you won't die right ? Because the energy behind them is low however what kind of damage will happen to you ?
Can the same thing be made with bug zapper instead of arc lighter and layden jar instead of ceramic capacitor? Please repply
Pls explain the proper working of Tesla coil operating on AC or DC the type of output it gives and can it be operated on DC or it will need input of AC only
Hello, please do not spam my youtube videos with cut and paste identical comments. Thank you. I responded to two of these so far.
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I attempted this with two different tv fly back transformers but could not get it to work. The hv wire did not seem to have a connection with any of the pins. Broken? Not sure. Was definitely arcing DC HV through the primary though.
Interesting. With one of my transformers, I did have that problem. Here is the model number of the transformer I used successfully : 8-598-962-00 NX-1731//X 7122B17 That's all I got!
Nice! You're sending chopped up DC into the flyback transformer (though the series capacitors arguably block the straight DC component), but the changing magnetic field in the core will make AC sparks on the HV side. Can you put a neon bulb in the big spark without frying it? It'd be interesting to see if both electrodes light up (AC) or only one (DC).
I'm sorry, I dont follow in regard to the neon bulbs?
@@PlasmaChannel Video response & demonstration here: ruclips.net/video/sBDd8nfO3tk/видео.html
Excellent, that makes sense! I think the larger sparks will likely fry the neon bulbs. BTW super cool viddy you made.
can you use this to bend air(make ionic wind)?
Are you able to add this circuit to a Tesla coil and get the same sparks off the top load
I destroyed a wireless keyboard with one of those lighters, haha.
My guess is that the high voltage impulse fried the circuitry. I’m happy that only the keyboard took damage, not the computer (maybe the aluminum case of it shielded it).
Even if I love my coils, I’m turning back to low voltage: like using the heat of my hand and turn it into a fan using thermoelectric modules. It’s not as sparky, but it’s interesting in it’s own way. Also it’s kinda hard to find components (like motors) that will run on 0.2 V and 0.05 A.
Hey, sorry to hear of the keyboard! Yeah, there are inherent dangers when working with high voltage. I'm glad to hear you're being safe. Also, thermoelectrics are rad.
😍😍i love this channel
Thank you. I'm glad to hear that.
Have you ever experimented with a neon sign transformer at an old CRT picture tube? I got some surprising results with multiple transformers, two CRT tubes, a few 20kv capacitors, and a switch.
This is one of the experiments
ruclips.net/video/KN6A9u9nhbc/видео.html
Interesting. That was 60kv?
2 thoughts, if you're still monitoring comments:
1) You show (and I have) a twin-arc lighter. What's the best thing to do with the second pair of HV wires in this case?
2) I remember hearing an anecdote (no idea if historically true) about Tesla, when he was experimenting with his
Wardenclyffe Tower, specifically feeding UHT into the atmosphere.
The story goes that after a space of time 'unnaturally rhythmic' lightning started discharging not that far away, even though there were no clouds in the sky.
The science of course, is that he was theoretically using the ionosphere as one 'plate' of a capacitor, which being a conductor at those voltages, lead to the wireless transmission of energy.
I'd be interested to know your thoughts re the story and the possibilities, thinking of your hankering to 'make real lightning' :)
Hi Chris, great questions. It is best you wire those transformers in series, and use a lot of insulation if you’re tucking the wire connections back into the lighter. Don’t want it arcing to the case.
As for the lightning. I’ve never heard this story. I’ll have to look into it and get back to you! Sounds awesome, and, plausible.
@@PlasmaChannel Many thanks for the reply. I'll try the series connection and see what I get - probably some insane voltage ;-) .
Great work always - fascinating!
I've been a HV & UHV freak every since I got hold of a power transformer with HT (450v) winding as a kid.
Haven't grown up yet, and it's over half a century later :D
you mention keeping your hand in your pocket as a safety measure, could you elaborate a little on what this does scientifically to help safety? Also, whats the small black box connecting the lighter circuit to the diode/flyback combo?
It simply stops you getting both hands together across two high voltage points. Impossible with one hand out of the way.
Just to avoid putting your hand on a grounded surface while the other works with high voltage. This way, it will be impossible to get shocked by accident.
Long story short: it prevents a electricity from traveling across your chest-----through your heart.
@@timovneerden not imposible to get shocked but imposible to get killed
What would happen if you raplaces that arc lighter with something that already has a 100kv output?
It would break the capacitors. And, the pulse circuit would not work.
Can i use another ignition coil not the arc lighter? And switch flyback to ignition coil?
Yes, you can.
holey shit!! cant believe iv never seen this!!!!
I'm surprised you managed to measure the resistance on the secondary. Did you later test to see if you had blown the internal diode ? I bet you were disappointed, considering the input volage, the output should be much higher than it appears (with the internal diode still functioning and without). /watch?v=4UFKl9fULkA&t=46m11s normal "flyback" operation, deflation mode. I'd like to see you illustrate exactly what's happening it the core (using the left hand rule for electron current) , I'm planning on doing that myself, if you don't beat me to it. it would be a good oportunity to explain what's happening in the so called "Leedskalnin PMH", perpetual loop magnetization, which bleeds off in ferrite HF cores such as this one. If you get your hands on a huge pure iron core, you could store a hell of a punch in it by running high power DC on the primary, and getting HV DC again on the primary /secondary when you sheer off the polished ended core breaker. A lever mechanism would make things easy.
Do adaptors make a whining noise because of the high frequency transformer
They do. Usually adaptors will have a high frequency transformer inside them. You're hearing the whine that transformer.
Awesome video but when I saw the arc lighter I was like how the blue heck do they get the arc in a criss cross! What!?
Ah! Its amazing isnt it. They use two transformers, and they fire at alternating times.
very cool two phase system, there is both dual mosfets and dual transformer, phase shifted to create the cross effect. amazing that they have all this in such a small package. love these things.
Thanks! I’ll research the schematic
Honestly I think arc lighters are the most amazing thing. I dont even smoke - and i have several. About to buy some more. They are the most amazing HV source you can get.
@@PlasmaChannel im the same, i dont smoke but i have several of these, one in my EDC, they are just a super cool piece of tech.
a question:
we know lightning has insane energy. if we put lightning in v*i=p, which (Voltage or current) causing that much energy ? which one is higher ?
real lightning often has over 10 million volt at about 100.000 to 200.000 ampere
Correction, lightning is on the order of magnitude much higher than 10 million volts. Air breaks down at 3 million volts PER METER. For perspective. This has been confirmed by the American Society of Electrical Engineers. Lightning most often peaks around 120 million volts, often much higher. Currents have been measured I believe as high as 100,000 amps.
Can you increase the power of an ignition coil?
So.. would this power a Tesla coil? Dn the same circuit twice😂 this is gonna be a fun project, thank you for the great ideas!
And is the end of the high V return grounded?
Try using the Wooden Coil from an Old Model T Ford! I know you will be shocked as to how little D.C. Voltage can be used to drive it. Even a Coin Cell has enough power!
Wooden coil??You have my attention.
That was my dream also😍🤩... to use lightings for producing energy for humanity 😇💝
Hey, what are the name of all the wine that you used thank you
No particular HV wire is necessary for this project, honestly.
Does it matter what type of oil you submerge the fly back in?
Funny thing : mine was submerged in vegetable oil. Which is the worst type. Anything would be better than that!
Plasma Channel hey if it works, it works. I’m new to this hobby, and even after six months I still fail more often than I succeed in most of these RUclips diy projects. Love the channel. The voltage multiplier episode, I think that was the first real successful project I worked on.
what if you put a few of them in series...like 5 of them?
Could this be used to create an emp?
Do you think I could wind my own primary? because my transformer is very strange and I cannot for the life of me find the primary.