Matt,
The large majority of potted flyback transformers available these
days have integral rectifiers built in, because they were intended
for use on CRTs. If they have a long lead with a round anode cap on
it, it's safe to assume that it has a rectifier in it.
It's quite hard to find flybacks without rectifiers in them these
days, unless you can find very old ones from tube TV sets. Those
sets used vacuum tube 1B3 rectifier tubes, 'cause effective solid
state rectifiers weren't available at the time.
The old flybacks without rectifiers tend to command high prices when
you can find them on eBay.
Removing the rectifiers from an epoxy potted flyback without
destroying the hair-fine end of the HV winding is a very difficult
proposition.
Dave
On 9/28/2015 11:19 PM, Matthew Sweeney wrote:
This is correct I am building a 'tandem' VDG using both positive and
negative polarities. I picked up two of those HV negative ION
generators
just because they were so cheap and I can mess around and see what I
get.
I though about picking up some flybacks but they don't say anything
about
having a built-in diode and I don't think it's easy to remove them. I
didn't see this deal and already ordered the ion generators, maybe I'll
check these out if the ion generators don't work as expected.
Thanks again for all the info it's been very useful.
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