HACKED!: CCFL Inverter becomes an Arc Lighter?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 พ.ค. 2024
- WARNING!: The presented circuit uses high voltage. Do not try to replicate it!
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In this episode of HACKED! I will show you how to convert an ordinary CCFL inverter circuit into an arc lighter circuit that can create electric arcs over a distance of 5mm.
Music:
2011 Lookalike by Bartlebeats
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Really looking forward to what's gonna happen next with this. I have a few CCFL inverters laying around and always thought it would be interesting to use it for something a bit different.
Frohe Weihnachten! Merry christmas! and please never ever stop sharing your awesome projects here with us! :)
I love the addition of the red pen in a few of your recent videos.
good idea!
0:44
Thats not quite true. The epoxy block contains a simple HV transformer and is potted for isolation. All the circuitry is on the PCB and it is a super simple single transistor oscillator driving the primary.
I have a TV ccfl driver somewhere, thats gonna be fun as its pretty powerful ;)
Yep, kinda like a joule thief.
The reason why the module in the factory-made one is potted (enapsulated with resin), is for high voltage isolation to keep the module small. Potting electronics is generally not used for trade secret circuits, because the circuit can be then x-rayed (unless the circuit is surrounded by lead).
Awesome! My brother and I did this years ago too
Instead of placing the fuse directly into the arc, we upped the voltage and attached the electrodes to two nuts (spaced ~10mm vertically from eachother) with the fuse passing through the centres. Basically the electrodes touch the fuse.
This causes the arc to form inside the fuse (as the carbon content from the charcoal makes it mildly conductive), causing it to combust from the inside out. Perfect ignition every time, and the voltage is sufficiently high enough to pierce through any crud formed onto the electrodes by the combustion process
You are really Great! I never watched any video from you or ElectroBoom without liking it. Thank you so much. I build electronic devices for more than 20 years, and I'm also a programmer for 20 years, but I've learnt many new things from you. Thanks again and please keep up the good work.
Still building?
@@Basicvitaminb12 Yeah!
@@khashmeshab I used to also I was addicted wake up making project buying component I have cure my addiction took me 4 years it was affecting my life so badly
I love your videos!
I'm learning so much about electronics and what diagrams are supposed to look like
thank you so much
Fast eine halbe Million Abonnemten? Well done & deserved! Wünsche ein ganz gutes 2017 auf dem Weg zum goldenen YT-Button.
Your diagram drawings are so nice to look at. Have a happy New Year! :)
Merry Christmas to GREAT SCOTT
Scott, I hope your Christmas is as great as your namesake! :D
Can't wait for part 2, I love me some HV work :P
Hi GreatScott!
I was wondering if you could make a simple Variable Frequency Drive to control small induction motors. I think it'd be interesting to see how these "mysterious" devices work.
Nice video and keep up the great work!
Das kommt gerade zum perfekten Zeitpunkt! Ich bin schon extrem gespannt auf das nächste Video! Danke für die viele Arbeit die du da reinsteckst!
Oh mein Gott ich habe gerade gesehen dass das ja schon zwei Jahre alt ist...
I dont know why.
I am addicted to your videos.
Excellent videos Scott, a lot of the tech, side goes over my head but it starts the brain working and wanting to understand more, regards Doc Cox
1:22 "So the question is: can we modify the circuit to achieve that?"
- I'm so excited! It will be so enjoyable to watch the video through to the end to find that out.
1:27 "He shows the success."
- Excitement ends.
Merry Christmas! And btw you have really good handwriting XD
I have no desire to light cigarettes, fireworks or tissue paper but found your video fascinating. The circuit analysis was excellent, even without the desire to actually build this particular application one can learn a lot from such videos. I had never heard the term "Royer Oscillator" so this is an area for further research for me. Many thanks for the video. Bob
I'm so exited to see the second video! :)
PS: Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas Great Scott!
Careful about getting the output wires too close. Some of these burn out almost instantly if you short them. Even more likely once you remove those blue capacitors which are there to regulate current (or so I've been told)
Very nice hand - writing, footage ,voice and techniques. .
You have the best channel of Eletronic in YT. Thank you very much!
Awesome project! Oh and merry Christmas
Oh come on scott! I want to make one before the new year!
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!?!?!?!?!?
TO GREAT SCOTT
Thanks
GreatScott! I wish you the same sir, and to all reading this, a merry Christmas!
GreatScott! i have a question what is this ccfl circuit i only heared about cfl circut and its mini transformer make an arc lighter with mobile charger circuit transformer
Hi great scoot loving the videos. Have a great new year and merry christmas
Thanks. You too.
thanks for your great work, always inspiring; I have been thinking for a while about those inexpensive circuits, basically free when you get them out of dead compact fl. could they be modified into a DC power supply?
Your diagrams and handwriting are very beautiful.
I just ordered one of those arc ligters for new years eve 2 days ago :)
The new ones come with two arcs crosssing eachother by the way :)
Amazinggg!!! Saludos desde Tachira, Venezuela!
It is interesting, but I feel a slayer exciter with a single TIP31C and a simple 500 turn secondary would do the same thing. and a slayer exciter is more scale-able and simple to start with.
either way looking forward to part two. Merry Christmas
you are a Genius Bae, merry xmas to you! keep going
Merry Christmas Scott
Cool project for new year
Merry christmas and happy new year scott....
i love your hand writing!!
That AC wave looks nice and pure. Why can't inverters look that good???
There is plenty that look so good these days @ Benning Power Electronics, for example not that I am trying to sell you anything though. In this vid though, it's easier @ higher frequencies.
@@drphu do they look that good under heavy load ? Most inverter sine wave gets distorted under load
they use transistors
@@xsauce3858 i think its the load that make sine wave inverter gets distorted
Because most modern appliances draw harmonicly distorted current
If you want clean sine wave then just load your inverter using pure resistive load only such as tungsten lamp
Some house AC inverters use a Pulse width modulated signal to the transformer from a DC source(batteries) A 555 timer or faster is usually used. It produces a stair step trace on the scope. It's very close to AC for regular power use. Not great for high frequency like with radios(harmonic splatters).
I Love your videos!
Plz keep your good work and Mary Christmas!
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas!
Frohe Weihnachten!
Heappy new year "GREAT SCOTT"
are u using carbon rods for the final lighter? like in Grant Thompsons video with the electric arc furnace
your hand writing is like a dot matrix printer .i mostly love your handwriting.
You are a very genious electronics and electrical engineer with plenty of knowledge in this field...hats off to you sir!!!
Hey GreatScott! How did you wind the center-tapped primary coil??
your hand drawing scheme are like printed. awesome vid.
blessings and merry christmas to you, a huge hug from here Costa Rica :)
Thanks. I wish you happy holidays as well.
merry Christmas to you bro
Love your work
finally a high voltage project what makes you go there
That black can isn't because of IP. It's because High Voltage circuits like this need to be very good isolated from the ambient. In that black box there was only some diodes and capacitors to double/triple the voltage.
Or just plain windings? No need for DC output.
I have some of the parts molded inside TV high voltage transformers,
and for certain without the epoxy they WILL short out!
They don't use transformers. Most use much simpler and lower current voltage multipliers. I don't know about this specific lighter, but in general, those black tubes that are epoxied that power arcs are usually voltage multipliers.
I cant say this for all but in mine the box is a transformer and it is in that one too
@[NCG] NubeCubeGamin I have the exact lighter circuit and all that's in the black casing is a transformer, use your brains people 4 wires going in 2 going out 2 on the input are tied together and attached to positive the other 2 are attached to a transistor its obviously a transformer it's a super simple common self isolating circuit and if you still don't believe me riddle me this, if it was diodes and caps in the output would be pulsed and blue due to the capacitors discharging and the lower frequency and obviously the arc coming out of this looks like constant, purple high frequency arcs, which is further evidence that its a transformer
@[NCG] NubeCubeGamin this isn't me dissing you nubecube I'm just saying because there seems to be alot of unintelligent people in the comments
Another great vid !
I was wondering if your arc lighter circuit is just a simpler , less beef up version of the ZVS Driver ? Thanks(:
Your videos are just amazingggg I am a big fan of u plz don't stop making videos
Can you make a video of Making our own CFL circuit (for fluorescent lamps) like DIY or BUY ?
Thank you for the schematic diagram :D
Very interesting. Happy new year.
Have you ever experimented with the ODROID-XU4 board it seems like it has alot of promise i want to attempt something along the lines of rasboy with it
1:16 Can/Would you measure the voltage @ the gap as I always thought it's about 100KV to jump 1 foot! Which is 3000 V per CM, although I forget how long of an arc I can get from an old TV fly-back, I did have a neon transformer that said 120 to 3000 and it did arc about 1 CM
Great Scott!
Merry Christmas everyone!
Awesome video! Merry Christmas! :$
can the gap be made bigger by adding "jump points" between the wires? or have multiple taps to cover a larger distance? (serious inquiry)
Merry Christmas! Wie viel Strom fließt da so?(What about the current flow?)
Can you direct me at time where you explained how this citruit outputs such high voltage??
Is it because of that transformer or what???
Dude i don't know why i haven't subscribed to your channel u make great stuff
I love how he emphasises the 'stay creative' part of the outro. it's like he is begging us to 😂😂
3:56 what frequency and duty cycle did you use to get the arc at 6 volts?
Great video. I do have one question though. How much voltage do you have to input to the CCFL inverter?
12 volts
Yeah in spite of the 'do not replicate', people do want stuff they can build Great Scott.
The main problem is you found a lot hanging around so we can't copy. Components all can get would be a lot better.
Very nice anyway.
Happy new year Electronic enthusiasts! :-)
Scott, can i ask what do you work ? or what did you study?
Are you an electric engineer?
your writing is insanely good
Lol I did this with a circuit of a flatbed scanner but it only has a verry small 'plasma effect'! 😂 keep up the great videos
u are a genius, long ago i asked my physic teacher how u can get 620 volts dc out of 12v input, she didn't have an answer until i left the school after 6 years
Great video. Will it work to ignite black powder or smokeless rifle powder with the arc? Might be a novel way to fire motor shells without a fuse.. :} I built similar devices, but it uses a bank of charged capacitors at 350 VDC and dumps to a transformer with a SCR. Others have done similar with camera flash circuits also. Cheers!
+GreatScott! Sounds like you know your shit, I understood most of it although not all. Yet.
Question. 3kv per 1mm of load gap. I make plasma lighters that I buy in kit form from ebay with a couple of mods like switch out the transistor for a better one so I can run nominal 8v battery pack producing longer arc. My lighter arcs at 10mm, can be drawn out to around 20mm so is the voltage diff is around 30kv?
Also, I made what I thought was a 30kv zvs/flyback power supply that arcs at 32mm, is this ps therefore actually around 100kv? I dont have the equipment to measure the voltage by the way.
Thanks for the vid and thanks for reading!
I think your transistors are going to get warmer than before. Don't they? About the components, do you know the value of L2? Thanks from Spain!
On the lighter circuit: it's not that the manufacturer does not want you to know what's inside, it's just that the high voltage components needs to be protected from moisture, decay of the material's dielectric properties, etc. Standard procedure in flyback transformers (eg old tv sets). Like what you do!
waren die blauen Bauteile eventuell VDRs? Wie immer ein top Video!
i like your multimeter!
GreatScott!
Can we use the CCFL inverter circuit as portable DC to AC power inverter for low power appliances?
Rad!...
But, Need a super simple/super small one..(like the 99.^plasma lighter)...
nicely explain
the feedback coil is only for oscillation? how is the current controlled when keeping an ignited lamp running?
Reminds me of the circuit I used on my Tesla Coil / Slayer Exciter thingy. XD More specifically, I used a turbo version of the Joule Theif, let me tell you it drew more power then I expected. RIP 2N3904, you will be missed. The coil is like 5 inches tall, didn't expect it to pull a few amps, and also the back EMF was over 30V. It latched on and shorted a large NiMH pack of Eneloops, which at 12V easily dumped 100W through it. Vaporized the poor transistor instantly.
sir
also make a video on H bridges and explain why we need MOSFET driver in case of MOSFET based H bridge.
plzz
Where did you get the CCFL Inverter i need one for a project
👍🧡
Can you make a video about simple switching circuits with one or two transistor without switching ic
like zvs circuit ,astable multivibrator or joule theif
Pls make an video about how to convert sound to electricity or about radiant energy
The super special secret black box in the arc lighter is a Slayer exciter with SMD MJE3055T and a small transformer.
Merry Chrismas
Fantastic !
Royer oscillators are very elegant.
awesome work! Merry christmas!
what are the clamps at 4:54 called?
something like this. they often call them hocks or grabber www.ebay.com/itm/10x-Mini-Test-Hook-Clip-Cable-for-Tiny-Component-SMD-IC-/301696268262?hash=item463e7fb7e6:g:zSEAAOxyfVtSMR~0
thank you very very much! :D
I finnaly managed to made this arc lighter :) It works xd :) Although its in the crude prototype stage for now :)
Hey! @GreatScott! I love your videos and I was wondering if you could make a tutorial series teaching us how to program Arduino and/or Raspberry Pi, Thanks! I hope you see this.