I find myself with the intriguing problem of building a device to magnetize small magnets, with the restriction of using only the junk box, namely no thousand pound thyristors or cast unobtainium insulators.
The only thing I have in plentiful supply is ignorance, and 4 capacitors of 40 uf 5kv working.
I had thought that I would need to switch the capacitor(s) into the coil, and crowbar before the coil current falls to zero. I am looking at 5 kilovolts at a kiloamp or two.
Any ideas about how to build triggered spark gaps? Would a photoflash trigger transformer be good as a trigger? Any good ideas about avoiding blowing up a PIC every shot ?
That'll do for now.
The only thing I have in plentiful supply is ignorance, and 4 capacitors of 40 uf 5kv working.
I had thought that I would need to switch the capacitor(s) into the coil, and crowbar before the coil current falls to zero. I am looking at 5 kilovolts at a kiloamp or two.
Any ideas about how to build triggered spark gaps? Would a photoflash trigger transformer be good as a trigger? Any good ideas about avoiding blowing up a PIC every shot ?
That'll do for now.