Testing the flyback

Today I figured I would have a look at the effects of electrostatic repulsion and attraction at higher voltages, so I connected a thin piece of wire to the high voltage ground pin. During the whole clip, the ground wire was not touched once by the high voltage wire.

When brought near, the positive charge of the high voltage wire will attract the ground wire until the charges are equalized during the spark. When equal, the wires will then repel each other. That's why the ground wire keeps bouncing around.

From time to time, the ground pin sparks over to one of the other pins while causing the high voltage wire to give out a big, juicy spark. It's just one more thing I was testing. :P

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Science & Technology

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• flyback
• transformer
• high
• voltage
• sparks
• electronics
• erty

[Masamuneblade7]

Lol the damn thing was having a party... in more ways than one. Earplugs please? My device is silent.