How can I hook this up to a flyback transformer?

Cheeseduck

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How can I hook this up to a flyback transformer?

« on: May 22, 2011, 09:50:30 PM »

I've been trying to build a flyback driver, and I've heard that using a fluorescent ballast is an easy way to get massive arcs out of it. So, I bought one (A Sylvania 1 lamp MB1x40) and have everything that I need. However, I'm not quite sure how I should hook the ballast up.
The ballast has 3 wires on one side- black, white, and blue. The other side has two red wires.
Am I right in thinking that the white goes to neutral, the black goes to +120, and the blue goes to ground?


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lee26loo

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Re: How can I hook this up to a flyback transformer?

« Reply #1 on: May 22, 2011, 09:54:32 PM »

This ballast has six wires, 2 red wires go to fluorescent tube one side filament, 2 blue wires go to other side filament, Black wire goes to 120V HOT. White wire goes to neutral, Green wire from power source goes to ballast metal case for earth grounding. All ballast has a built-in start up switch inside the ballast. It creates a few thousands volt arcing between RED and Blue just one second while start up switch making ON and OFF within less than one second. High voltage stops as soon as lamp lights up. This device cannot support thousand voltage for long period and you choice the wrong parts to generate high voltage. Besides,this type of ballast only work on frequency below 120c/s because of high iron cord loss (steel plated).
Flyback was a term used in TV horizontal output where has a flyback transformer to generate over 10KV at frequency 15750 c/s.


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Mario_Brewer

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Re: How can I hook this up to a flyback transformer?

« Reply #2 on: May 28, 2011, 02:16:14 AM »

It's amazing!It should be useful.
http://gliffy.info/127668/flyback-transformer


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