toys of distruction

[Mauser 98K]

built this an hour ago.



it is a charge\discharge aperatus for capacitors.

it will charge to a maximumn of 350Vdc

in the red container thaere are 40 350v happysnap caps(disposeable camera capacitors)
they are charged by the secondary transformer connected thru a bridge rectifier that i salvaged out of a PC power supply.

the secondary transformer is fed by the main transformer that was salvaged from
an old CNC machine.

the caps are discharged thru a SCR that was taken out of a power module
for a CNC machine.

the SCR is triggered by a 35Vdc cap that is charged by the main transformer connected by a half wave rectifier and triggered by pushing the Red button, the charging is done by pushing the Black button.

this is a clip of the sparking created by the discharge of the caps at 300Vdc, ya can hear the shockwave created by the arc on thr clip

the clip is a little grainy due to i cant post a bigger zip than what i did.