Hi You also could leave the windings as is and feed the secondary voltage into a voltage multiplier. Still not very safe to wire up.
If you did wire it up, the available current would be pretty massive. I certainly would not attach it to an ion pump I cared about. Bob On Jan 17, 2010, at 6:53 PM, Stanley Reynolds wrote: > > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Chris Stake <[email protected]> > To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement <[email protected]> > Sent: Sun, January 17, 2010 5:05:01 PM > Subject: Re: [time-nuts] 4 KV Power Supply Recommendations > > What is the operating voltage of the magnetron in a domestic microwave oven? > Although VERY HAZARDOUS, it might be possible to adapt the PSU from an old > one? > Chris Stake > > Yes, if you remove the transformer shunts and the filament windings and add > more primary windings in the space you would get about 2700v with a full wave > bridge. You also need to lift one side of the secondary that is grounded to > the frame. Yes very dangerous and yes I'm luck to be able to tell. > > Stanley > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
