RE: was Re: depotting/ now flyback circuits

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Original poster: "jimmy hynes by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <chunkyboy86-at-yahoo-dot-com>


100v seems really high. how many diodes are in there? should i just use the
wall voltage with a current limiting resistor or is the inductance and
resistance of the secondary enough to limit the current? 

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> Original poster: "Michael J Strube by way of Terry Fritz " 
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> Jimmy,
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> When I did this test (following the procedure from the link in my last 
> post) I found that it took over 100 volts to find the return pin. I 
> couldn't find it with a 12 volt supply, still didn't find it when I doubled 
> that. Switched to a 25 volt supply (which when rectified and filtered was 
> around 35 volts) and still didn't find it. Doubled that; still nothing. I 
> finally put two 25.2 volt transformers in series (secondaries) and doubled 
> the output. Then I was able to locate the return pin. Could be that the 
> flyback is shot but it may just take more voltage.
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> Mike
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> Subject: Re: was Re: depotting/ n! ow flyback circuits
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> Original poster: "jimmy hynes by way of Terry Fritz "
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> i tried a 30 volts from a different supply and still 
> nothing. could it be fried? how often are the flybacks 
> the parts that fail? i had two flybacks but i was 
> being a retard and kept only the bigger one instead of 
> the one i knew worked( i had to smash the other one to 
> see what was inside).
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> --- Tesla list wrote: 
> > Original poster: "jimmy hynes by way of Terry Fritz 
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> > i tried hooking the high voltage wire to a 15volt 
> > power supply and probing around with the other wire. 
> > i 
> > couldnt get any current and i tried all the pins 
> > both 
> > ways. whats going on? is 15 volts to low to turn on 
> > the series of diodes in the multiplier or is there a 
> > capacitor in series? i thought that you could put d! c 
> > through those, even though you wouldnt get any 
> > increase in voltage. 
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