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High voltage => Transformer (Iron Core) => Topic started by: breezetix on January 18, 2023, 08:24:15 AM

Title: Creating arcs off my variac lol, popped my igbts
Post by: breezetix on January 18, 2023, 08:24:15 AM

Had to use safety gap since it was flashing over at ~20kV
Popped my igbts
Wish I could've pushed more, but maybe in the future

Title: Re: Creating arcs off my variac lol, popped my igbts
Post by: Mads Barnkob on January 18, 2023, 08:13:28 PM

That goes beyond any other variac abuse I have ever seen!

Good job on pushing something into HV territory that was never there :)

Title: Re: Creating arcs off my variac lol, popped my igbts
Post by: Avenger on January 21, 2023, 04:44:09 AM

Variaс: WASTED! ;D
It reminded me how I arced small transformers from a umformer. :)

Title: Re: Creating arcs off my variac lol, popped my igbts
Post by: klugesmith on January 22, 2023, 04:45:46 AM

Nice work, nice video production. 
In case we are permitted to ask about unrelated stuff on bench: Is the white insulator appearing at 3:20 home-made?

Title: Re: Creating arcs off my variac lol, popped my igbts
Post by: breezetix on March 17, 2023, 06:04:53 PM

Quote from: klugesmith on January 22, 2023, 04:45:46 AM

Nice work, nice video production. 
In case we are permitted to ask about unrelated stuff on bench: Is the white insulator appearing at 3:20 home-made?

haha sorry i didn't respond, and not sure if i'm allowed to "bump" this thread by forgetting to respond, but yes it's 3d printed haha