{"id":17,"date":"2013-09-04T00:53:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T00:53:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2021-07-18T19:39:49","modified_gmt":"2021-07-18T19:39:49","slug":"just-for-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cockfieldofdreams.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/just-for-fun.html","title":{"rendered":"Just for Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I decided I had had enough of practical, useful projects, and I built this: <\/p>\n

<\/a><\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
The circuit is called a Slayer Exciter. It is a hand-wound air-core transformer (it took me about two hours to wind the transformer; the red cylinder in the picture is actually about 400 turns of 34-gauge magnet wire) capable of generating a high voltage and a very strong electric field capable of illuminating a fluorescent light bulb. There are lots of online how-tos floating around which go into great detail about this “poor man’s Tesla coil” so I won’t go into great detail here. Basically, it’s a very simple oscillating circuit consisting of a transistor, two diodes, and some resistors that can turn a low voltage DC source into very high voltage AC. Here are some pictures! <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Some prototyping, just to make sure it all works: <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Putting it all together on a piece of wood, as I am wont to do with electrical things:<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
<\/a><\/div>\n

 And, on an unrelated note, perhaps the most random two things to be purchased at one time from Amazon. A 14-ounce tin of almond flour for gluten-free baking and a Lieutenant Commander Geordi Laforge action figure to make sure I have the nerdiest cubicle in the office:<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
MY TRICORDER DETECTS NO WHEAT, CAPTAIN. IT’S A MYSTERY!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So I decided I had had enough of practical, useful projects, and I built this: The circuit is called a Slayer Exciter. It is a hand-wound air-core transformer (it took me about two hours to wind the transformer; the red cylinder in the picture is actually about 400 turns of 34-gauge magnet wire) capable of generating a … <\/p>\n

Continue reading “Just for Fun”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cockfieldofdreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cockfieldofdreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cockfieldofdreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cockfieldofdreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cockfieldofdreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/cockfieldofdreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196,"href":"http:\/\/cockfieldofdreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/196"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cockfieldofdreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cockfieldofdreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cockfieldofdreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cockfieldofdreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}