Custom Transformer Shatters All Voltage Records (ft. 3D Printing Nerd)

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@styropyro 6 часов назад

you're going to nerd snipe me and try to get me to make a transformer with a higher voltage step up ratio eh? are resonant devices like tesla coils allowed? :p also at 16:50 i could feel the pain as that kind of thing has happened to me so many times. i was already nervous from you extending the electrode distance for that very reason lol

@pixelguitarman 6 часов назад

Was about to comment the same thing, a couple resonant transformer with 0 resistance (impossible) mathematically hits infinity voltage, the problem I had with those are the transistors, they tend to explode for some mystical reason 😅

@danfm1 5 часов назад

garloid

@nullboi365 5 часов назад

Glad youre still alive

@RPI_Projects597 5 часов назад

@@nullboi365same

@DeadlyDwarf 5 часов назад

Ay you alright?

@3DPrintingNerd 5 часов назад

I’ve learned so much about this working with Jay, and I’m stupid excited for what we get to do with it :)

@strangeke7750 6 часов назад

This is probably the most exciting RU-vid channel for me. Love this and can’t wait to see where you will go with the ion thrusters.

@masterwatch 5 часов назад

agree.

@paulmcgrath2175 6 часов назад

A good way to avoid air pockets is to pump out and after the bubbles stop, let the air back in and even pressurize the pot as much as the chamber will allow. This will force the compound into all the voids and any remaining air bubbles will be a fraction of the size they would be at atmospheric pressure. I learned this from some friends who resin clear cast for a living.

@dingdingdingdiiiiing 5 часов назад

This makes a lot of sense.

@andan2293 4 часа назад

Even better would be to pour the resin in vacuum.

@b1air77 6 часов назад

I don't know anything about plasma (other than what I've learned from watching your videos) still so excited every time you have an upload!

@misikaro 6 часов назад

Practically an expert already

@williamlong8859 6 часов назад

love the clean electrical work and soldering. Dad taught me to solder when we made my 1st Heath kit back in the early 70's. Clean/neat solder lines were as important to him and how he graded my work. My mother that was teaching me hand sewing, cross stitch, embroidery and the like at the same age. The neatness and beauty of the how the backside of the work was dressed is equally as important as the work itself.

@irkedoff 5 часов назад

Thanks for the noise warning.

@withershin 6 часов назад

I miss local electronics stores (11:25). I haven't seen one in like 15 years. This is like seeing a Blockbuster to me.

@DUKE_of_RAMBLE 5 часов назад

I feel ya... One of the, then, two remaining Blockbuster stores was near my cabin in Alaska, and for many years was a common stop for us. Alas, it finally closed its doors like 6yrs or so ago. I think the final one did so ~3yrs back. RIP Blockbuster Video 🎞️ 😞🫗 Thanks for all the childhood memories, renting movies and video games!

@AJTalks 5 часов назад

For the record, much better transformers can be made by constructing them the way N.Tesla did (with large spacing between turns and a voltage magnification that is unrelated to the number to turns). It could have saved you some time with winding and you would have had a more robust coil, capable of much more intense plasma discharges due to the higher frequency and voltage limits. You can refer to the scale model of the Colorado Springs transformer that Eric Dollard built to get an idea of what I am talking about.

@Tessarotto 5 часов назад

I have been following all the videos since I discovered this channel over a year ago, and as someone who is not in the field, I find the videos super intuitive and easy to understand, even though the topic is extremely complex. Congratulations on the videos!

@Nutrafin-3D 6 часов назад

10:47 wrecked my ears watching on a home theater setup

@PlasmaChannel 5 часов назад

Oh yikes sorry haha!

@jacobe2995 6 часов назад

this guy is a human unicorn. rich, smart, good looking and actually seems like a nice person.

@TheOfficialOriginalChad 6 часов назад

Humicorn

@custos3249 6 часов назад

Because as we all know, psychopaths never manicure and cultivate their image.

@arminhaberl9242 6 часов назад

How do you know he is rich?

@bndlett8752 6 часов назад

@@arminhaberl9242 Perhaps not rich rich, but he is definitely above your average Joe when it comes to money _and_ time.

@DudeManDude-ot5fv 6 часов назад

You can't be very rich and a decent person. At best you can ignore all those who for you where you are but if everyone got what the very deserved no one would be rich.

@3eepoint491 6 часов назад

Some tips regarding the Driver: I know the perf board is therapeutic but it is also a nightmare for hf currents. PCB`s are really chap nowadays and KiCAD is free. A missing Ground Plane might be the Reason why the Squar Wave looks so erratic. As I didnt see anny, put some thermal compound under the Fets! Either Past or a Thermal Pad. Keep in Mind that the Backplate of the TO247 Cases you use are conncted to the Drain so the Sink might be under whatever Voltage you are using. Also, for switching use, paralelling Fets normally Works rather fine., or at least in your application it should. It Could be that the Drive signal wasnt equal for all three due to the perv Board. The roundnded edges of your Square Wave indicate that the circuit driving the Mosfet cant handle the gate capacity, which also increases losses as the Fet goes through more of its linear region. A gate driver would be recommended here. Otherwise, massive Transformer!

@Nathan-vt1jz 5 часов назад

Very cool. I look forward to seeing the scaled up ionic thrusters that will be powered with this.

@etaaramin9361 5 часов назад

Thank you for these videos, you're a continuing inspiration!!! Many of your videos serve as a go to introduction to concepts I use in my own designs. Love your work!!❤

@GhostSenshi 6 часов назад

Spent all morning rewatching styropyro and then I got super excited seeing the upload. Love your content and I’ve rebuilt many of your projects myself. Looking forward to this one

@somagraphics 6 часов назад

Best channel ever. I feel like we're seeing actual cutting-edge science. Keep it up!!

@oculusangelicus8978 4 часа назад

When it comes to electricity and electronics, I'm about as dumb as a box of rocks. I have had so many tries to understand it and it all seems like Magic from another reality to me every time. I understand the basics but for some reason, I have a mental block inside my head that might as well be made of Adamantium, because I just can't get my head around it, and I want so much to understand it because I have an Arduino and Raspberry Pi and all kinds of desired to accomplish things with electronics but for the life of me, I can't even understand the basic of a bread board!!!, But however you accomplished this, it is cool on another level! Thanks for sharing.

@rrad8106 5 часов назад

I can only imagine how far this would drive a craft through the vacuum of space!

@Madkite 5 часов назад

That's cool. I used to wind high voltage ignition coils. Down to wire of 0.1mm. That's thinner than a human hair! And a pain in the ass. So first, get a wire tensioner if you can find one. Or use something like a drum you can make if go round a few times and very gently contol the friction. Then get an old lathe. Doesn't matter how knackered as long as the feed and speed controls work. Once dialled in, it makes the whole thing a lot lot lot easier to wind. You can probably even get a proper winding machine so it reverses feed automatically. The coils I used to do a lot would have paper insulation between every layer. But all dry HV coils have a much limited life. As you have pointed out. This is why old car HT and mains trasformers are oil filled. It's self repairing insulation. You can change. It's also why modern car coil packs have to be changed at regular intervals.

@JCtheMusicMan_ 6 часов назад

I love watching your videos but with tinnitus, I have to watch on mute with subtitles 😢 Your work is incredible but maybe filtering out the high pitched frequencies would make it bearable to watch with sound on 😅

@Slowly_Going_Mad 6 часов назад

That there is an absolute monster. I love it. Kinda makes me think back to my first transformer I wound. It worked but it pulled too much current to run from the wall. It's since been disassembled and parts lost/repurposed. There were two paper core bobbins one with 250 turns of 26 awg rubber enamel wire the second bobbin was probably something like 40,000 windings of 38 awg with wax paper every layer. The core was what really kept it from working well (just not enough metal really) and was a stack of angle brackets to make a (1" by 1"1/2 metal cross-section) square ring core. It would throw a pretty hot arc at about 3/4 inch but just ate enough current to brown out the house so it got shelved.

@ElectroBOOM 5 часов назад

HEH! YOU CHALLENGE ME YOU PUNY MORTAL?! WHY? I may end up killing myself doing it! 🥲 Fine, I'll put it in my to do list!

@ceeboneee5632 4 часа назад

Had to double check it was the actual electroboom then 😆 Looking forward to that video

@erlendse 5 часов назад

Transformer suggestions: 1. Use way more sections on the output winding bobbin, and don't stack them.

@SenfSenferson 5 часов назад

I also love building perf board circuits :D DIY Layout Creator is very helpful for laying out stuff before populating and soldering.

@bowieinc 6 часов назад

Printer maybe skipping steps. Check belt tension or loose set screw on pulley on motor shaft. Also, you can rotate model and move on build plate a little. GREAT VIDEO!!

@EddyKorgo 5 часов назад

Duu, didnt thought you would take it so far. Amazing!

@lostjohnny9000 6 часов назад

Thanks to you, I don't need to build these things any more. Thank you for saving me all that money and effort. Please keep it up!

@hfrequency 5 часов назад

There is so much joy in this man’s eyes, I feel his fleeting happiness)

@paulkocyla1343 4 часа назад

Nice project. But in case you just need that transformer without the effort of winding one, this will do the trick: Take two old-style car ignition coils (the cans). Wire them antiparallel (-/+ and +/-). Now when you drive them, you'll get over 80kV at 24V source. Just be careful, the current is substantial! I generated x-rays with this thing and an old rectifier tube.

@AdvancedTinkering 5 часов назад

I haven't watched it to the part where you test the FDM part. But I suspect there will be arcing. At least that's my experience when building my HV power supply. Even 100 % infill does not insulate properly. Curious to see if it works in your case! Edit: OK, looks like you didn't test the FDM part. Would have been interesting to see if you get different results. In my case it arced through over 1 cm of 100 % infill PLA. So if anyone plans on printing parts for insulation purposes, resin is the way to go. And/or design the parts in a way that there is never a path from the HV to ground insulated with printed material. Great transformer! Thanks for the video!

@jameslmorehead 5 часов назад

I've used that type of epoxy as a professional for years (power electronics R&D, currently with an EV traction motor engineering firm). It looked like you were drawing a hard vacuum on it. This is a big no no. It causes the solvent to rapidly come out of suspension and bubble. Only put it under 25 inches of mercury or so. This will evacuate the air from the epoxy but not mess with the solvent. For your transistor problems, select a FET with a positive thermal coeffiecent. That way, if one of many in parallel has a lower Rdson, the heat it generates will bring it in line with the others. Next, each FET needs its own snubber. Plus, a snubber is needed at the power rail as close to the power output as you can get it. Last, I would recommend an H bridge over a single FET. It's a higher part count, but if done right, still only uses a single PWM input for control. For the 555 timer circuit, I can give you one that has independent frequency and duty cycle with a duty cycle range from 5% to 95%.

@55Ramius 6 часов назад

Great video Jay ! Very interesting project there. I always wondered how large a voltage could be transformed without destroying itself. Looks like you are close. And to think, it only took 4 years to wind them... 😁

@alan2here 4 часа назад

You could use a simple machine to play the role of your hand in the coil winding process, and maybe something to prop the end up that's furthest from the drill as well, also maybe gear pair after the drill to speed things up a bit.

@andrewgalamb2395 4 часа назад

While vacuum is helpful in removing the bubbles, I have found that curing the epoxy under pressure gives the best results. The reason for this is that the bubbles shrink and air has a higher breakdown strength at higher pressure. The best procedure would be to degas using vacuum and then pressure for the duration of the curing, so that the remaining bubbles are at high pressure. FDM 3D printed pieces are super unreliable under electric fields, so nice thinking using resin printing

@DUKE_of_RAMBLE 5 часов назад

I love the challenge you've thrown down! Thank you, because sure... it'll give you some knowledge if they manage to, but it's going to give _US_ some great content to watch!! _(Mehdi, dammit, _*_please_*_ don't unalive yourself!! 🤣😒)_

@YanChatsverykou 5 часов назад

Advice: wind each subcoil separately. And only then connect top end of one with top end of the other, bottom end with bottom. This way wire won't cross by windings. Ensure interleaving winding directions though. ;)

@pirateskeleton7828 5 часов назад

Awesome transformer. I also ended up dipping my voltage multiplier in resin so the electricity wouldn’t arc between capacitors

@WumbologyPHD 6 часов назад

You don't hear many people challenging Styropyro. And for good reason. I hope he takes you up on this.

@Vegibyte 5 часов назад

I just love this experimentation process and how far it's progressed on the channel! How far are you looking to scale up? I have some ideas from seeing how some medical devices operate, but I am no engineer. Would love to know what education available now would benefit most to further the progress.

@alexsmit9554 5 часов назад

Use mineral oil as an insulator, it can withstand enormous voltages and is commonly used in ultra-high voltage industrial equipment; This can be made aesthetically attractive by using a plexiglass tube with caps on the ends in which to place the electrodes

@DUKE_of_RAMBLE 6 часов назад

*Plasma Channel:* ⚠️NOISE WARNING⚠️ *My Tinnitus:* Aww... Cute sounds you've made! ☺️

@Subcode 6 часов назад

Yeah that noise warning was after he blew out my ears twice. Really should have been at the start of the video. First thing he does is blow out my ears.

@DUKE_of_RAMBLE 5 часов назад

@@Subcode Headphones I presume? I'm admittedly watching this on my S23 Ultra at ~90% volume _(with Atmos enabled, which means it's more like 95%),_ but its speakers had (surprisingly) no issue screaming all those noises... I was quite impressed! But yea, if I had my planar dynamic earbuds in, it's plausible I'd be singing a similar tune to yours... 😅 Thankfully my 14.5 and 15.5 year old doggos have hearing loss and they didn't even flinch - the oldest was

@mathiaschaves7604 6 часов назад

I know just the basics about eletronics... Don't need anything with high voltages... but I love to see your projects

@erlendse 6 часов назад

Go for LLC converter if you want power. But you would need to plan the transformer at the same time as the controller. Open loop flyback converter (your 555) would self-destroy if you leave the output open. UC3843 with feedback would handle it better. But to push power into the core, you want full/half bridge driver with mosfets and gate drivers. Main issue is the one way rectifier on the output if you go for DC ones. Using a CW multiplier on the output would likely work out just fine. btw you can custom order negative output flyback transformers (style of the tv ones), and between +30 kV and -30 kV rails is quite a bit of voltage.

@FlorinAdrianCacipu 5 часов назад

Few suggestions to make it more efficient, maybe use a H bridge driver for the transformer, and maybe add a series capacitor to the primarry, to make a resonant circuit, then tune the freqwency. Also the reson your signal was noisey on the scope, is probably the ground connection, it shuld be made as short as possible and from the tip of the probe.

@TomatePasFraiche 5 часов назад

I thought we’d get a coffee explanation/recipe with the “powering a monster” right after seeing the cup 😂

@JayL781 4 часа назад

Can you imagine reading about this guy. 50 years from now in a science book 🧐

@toutenmagma7140 6 часов назад

slight feedback: i would have preferred to have you show the noise it makes in the beginning and then edit it out for the other 20 minutes this video was as captivating as usual, but uniquely painful for me 😵‍💫 can't wait for the scaled up thruster it's gonna be sick

@Jeradactile 6 часов назад

Always love your videos!! Thank you

@woutervossebeld4664 5 часов назад

Cool video! FYI ALL shots with the arc going have a really loud high pitched sound, not just the one you put a sound warning on.

@testing2517 6 часов назад

You should start a voltage magnification challenge. Edit: I knew that was going to happen. It would be cool to have a public leader board.

@capichow 5 часов назад

Absolutely amazing

@J_DEV_J 5 часов назад

yo @plasmachannel i always wanted to see an arc coming from a phine charger, do you think this should be possible? love the vids❤

@vaibhavhayaran 6 часов назад

I was having a bad Monday... And then this man uploaded and fixed it...! ( Yet to watch the whole video )

@Appa-the-husky 6 часов назад

Can't wait to see what they come up with on your challange❤

@howardslack4890 5 часов назад

Would love to see to vertical wires on the output to make a Jacob’s ladder. Awesome build can’t wait to see it perfected and added to the thruster.

@Peter_Schluss-Mit-Lustig 6 часов назад

I think Advanced Tinkering recently discovered, that Filament-prints are really bad with High-Voltage. Maybe those spacers inbetween the windings were the Failure-point of your transformer

@stankenootgaming 4 часа назад

i love how the onshape filename is "massive flyback"

@goobman1981 6 часов назад

I used a standard DC flyback, 555 timer and 16v input. I was able to achieve 75kv for inital arc distance myself, and the mosfet stayed cool. Sadly the flyback eventually failed.

@paulmcgrath2175 6 часов назад

The transformer from a siemens inverter driven dental xray head might be useful for study here. Single primary and multiple isolated secondaries that connect to voltage multipliers that are stacked. 80 kv, 20 ma, runs under oil for serviceability later.

@draakevil 6 часов назад

This is amazing. Maybe you could use transformer oil instead or resin to make it repairable. Could even try winding it submerged in oil then. It should also be better at keeping everything cool.

@Subcode 6 часов назад

Jezus, HEADPHONE WARNING.... i have this video on 25% and you just blew out my ears.

@mohammedgoder 6 часов назад

This is what R&D looks like

@hannesaltenfelder4302 6 часов назад

17:08 You might want to use a better vacuum chamber and cure it in a pressure pot so any tiny micro bubbles become even smaller OR (and this is what I recommend) let someone professional with an autoclave do the job. PS: Already exited for your arduino projects, that gonna fuse well with your plasma knowledge...

@iamlaci76 5 часов назад

The crt tv flyback transformer had a little airgap between the two core half, a little piece of paper. The two half was massive screwed together, with an "u" shape threaded piece. Check out.

@zyxzevn 5 часов назад

When looking at the spark obsessively, you could have said "My Precious".

@SpaceDeviant 5 часов назад

With all the coils being made you would think some people would make an automated coil winder with stepper. More efficient coils is a benefit, less chance of cross over and rubbing.

@peterjmason1980 5 часов назад

When designing transformers for high voltage hold off you're better layerinng thin materials rather than having bulk structures. The reason for this is that a small inclusion/defect is unlikely to accur in the same place in a layered material. Have a look at using really thin film materials if you want to push a whole load higher!

@TheEngineeringDutchman 5 часов назад

oooooh man can't wait for the next ionic wind driver

@Ignotius_Grindelwald 5 часов назад

would you please list parts in your videos (maybe not in this one in particular, but for static gun for example)

@nirodha7028 6 часов назад

Love what your doing man ❤️👍🏻

@iamkian 6 часов назад

Nice one! Thank you for sharing.

@tmc6700 6 часов назад

Great job as always

@my-tschischlak 5 часов назад

yes another mcguvyer built, great.

@Mithraschosen 6 часов назад

I like the little boingy hair thing youre going with now, its neat.

@JM-sonicx90 5 часов назад

So this is more than meets the eye.

@AngeloXification 6 часов назад

Love the open challenge

@SSTC. 5 часов назад

I suggest you ditch the flyback driver and make a resonant LLC with adjustable frequency (UCC25600 or similar IC will do). Or a ZVS at least.

@the_phoenix1teamdufeu762 6 часов назад

Nice video and great project ! But please put an HF sound filter over the video next time, I can clearly ear the high frequency noise of your system !

@JohannesChan-s8v 5 часов назад

You should inspect the waveform on the primary of your circuit. It'd be interesting to see if it has a lot of spikes so it acts like a pulse transformer

@donniewatson9120 5 часов назад

The noise just made me think my tinnitus got louder.

@sparkyprojects 5 часов назад

Many years ago, my forst job as a teenager was impregnating tansformers with varnish or oil What i would do is pull a vacuum, then change to pressure, then back to vac, and again to pressure, might be worth a try i you have to make another core, however you will need a pressure vesssel with a window fr when you do the vac to watch for overflow., or you could quickly switch chambers.

@TheBrozilla 6 часов назад

Inspired, entertained, determined... Awesome video!

@richgoza1956 4 часа назад

Arduinos are very versatile! I was able to use I2S devices on the Uno. (Many say it's not possible.)

@jetspeed-ct9bp 5 часов назад

This guy is responsible for regenerating earths ozone layer

@MichaelShiferaw-ju2nf 6 часов назад

The legend is back

@MBato89 5 часов назад

I am working on the same problem love the Plasma Channel but I have already been focused on the material science side of it so I already know exactly what you should be using you will see that when I put out a video or you beat me to it you have a massive advantage though with your workshop and friends and none of the 3d printed materials are worth it

@martinvaclavik3505 5 часов назад

ok so from this video i learned that my ears can witstand so much noise

@Leonelf0 6 часов назад

Two things: A: MOSFETs are normally the ideal tansistors to parallel as they automatically balance their current as the Rds(on) has a positive thermal coefficient and transistors with higher load "shed" their load to others. So I have a feeling there might have been some problems with the perfboard design power section (like ringing and such). B: Is there a reason you chose 85% duty-cycle around 11:00 in the video? A transformer really likes AC (read: no DC component), as any DC offset will cause an imbalance in the current saturating the transformer core at some point. I mean, I saw it work in your vid and you actively experimented with the duty cycle, but did the core get warm or anything? dutycycle might also have impact on the frequency content of the waveform, so that's probably why it impacted your output voltage. I guess you found some resonance or similar.

@erlendse 5 часов назад

For me, it looks like 555 was the gate driver, instead of using a mosfet driver chip. That would likely lead to slow switching of them and thus heating!

@sherlockstu 6 часов назад

Cool. The moons plasma. And powerlines we see all over the place are just collecting energy from the air and distributing it. AcDc

@taylorwestmore4664 5 часов назад

Check out Ion Power Group for the latest research on harvesting atmospheric electricity using carbon nanotube coated wires. Also the Moon isn't plasma...

@nilsachermann9300 6 часов назад

What transistors are you using igbt ore mosfets and what model specifically? Did you put the pme generator direkt to the gates of the transistor?

@TheIronHeadRat 5 часов назад

Thanks for sharing 👍

@hornet.6656 6 часов назад

Nice Job, I really like your Channel. I was Wondering how much weight does the transformer have in the end?

@adilsongoliveira 6 часов назад

You can use several mosfets in paralel but you can't just wired them pin-to-pin. You need to add a few components to equalize them and make them switch at the same time, with the same current.

@flyingalex1 6 часов назад

I think that to avoid arcs, it may be a good idea, to use the coil, in a sulfur hexafluoride dielectric atmosphere.

@IanZainea1990 6 часов назад

10:00 you make stuff... why not tear apart a drill (or something similar) and make a foot pedal winding lathe type thing? instead of squeezing the drill with one hand and winding with the other? Also... a thimble might help save your fingers with the wire lol

@PlasmaChannel 5 часов назад

You know… that’s a highly valid point.

@IanZainea1990 4 часа назад

@@PlasmaChannel glad it was a useful comment! lol

@ibmicroapple9142 4 часа назад

Please put a lowpass filter or something else that attenuates the high frequency hiss over the audio next time. It's really difficult to listen to your voiceover when there is a high frequency hiss in the background. I doesn't help that I had to keep the volume minimal. The content is fine as usual, just a minor suggestion/plea. :)

@limepelt2348 5 часов назад

I'm sorry, A Massive Rail Gun? 20:38

@carpdog42 5 часов назад

omg lol my wife "are those the same cores you used?" ... yup same cores. I am using them with a ZVS driver though, 11 turn primary and 1000 turn secondary to get more like 3kV out. Edit: 2 seconds later.... nope not the same cores. Mine are much smaller; I don't think you showed the right ad because mine are about the dimensions shown in the ad