Neon Transformer + HV Capacitor = Loud Spark

[cacci5]

Do you have to discharge your capacitor afterwards?

[pompanobeachgoon]

gay!!!!

[TCDIL95]

dude! correct me if i'm wrong but it looks like your NST is hooked up backward!lol

but i guess thats just from what i can see.lol

i did this to and its fkn loud as!!

[neodymium001]

Say pulse that spark at periods less THAN 100 MICROSENDS or shorter. Make sure you have that pulse rate before you apply the HV, else you will expose yourself to mortal danger if too slow. See Tesla's experience in "the secret of cold electricity" by linderman. CAREFUL CAREFUL CAREFUL if you try this.

I believe that his is how T.H. Moray, Edwin Grey , Stanley Meyer and TESLA tapped into the ether.

[ChrisKarr]

Okay, maybe you've read these books or papers, but it's been scientifically dis-proven that there is a substance called 'ether'. Early theological scientists said that, since nothing could travel in a vacuum, what light traveled within in space was called 'ether'.  We now realize ether doesn't exist (that is, other than the chemical).

[awsomehighvoltage]

have you blown you transformer yet?

[ct92404]

...But what you're doing here with the capacitor is hard on the transformer because of voltage spikes and high frequency kickback. I use a saftey gap on my Tesla Coils to protect the transformer. Don't do this too much or it WILL burn out your transformer.

[gt4awd]

Have you shorted out your tranformer yet by doing this without a load (primary/secondary)?

[sm0k3ymcl3ud]

no but i've since made and blown a few different capacitors, i realize i should have a ballast, however this was just a capacitor test, now that i've constructed a new capacitor (cut up soda bottle with foil inside and out) with the highest capacitance i've achieved yet, i will be using a ballast in line with the primary

[ct92404]

Neon transformers are current limited with shunts in the core, so you don't need to use an external ballast. Anytime you draw an arc from the secondary, it shorts it out, but it won't overload. In fact, you could put a wire across the secondary terminals and it won't overload. It will just go to full load.