How to create a high voltage power supply using a microwave oven transformer (AKIO TV)
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- čas přidán 31. 05. 2024
- In this video, you'll see how to extract a high voltage transformer from a microwave oven and use it to create a 2000 volt power supply.
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Put the microwave capacitor in series with the transformer output. This creates resonancance and makes the arcs huge. stop arcing to the core of the Transformer. You WILL eventually arc to the secondary winding by accident and destroy the Transformer.
Thank you for the input
You’re saying i should connect the core to a separate block of metal and make arcs between one lead and that block
@@Dekko-chan If memory serves I I bolted & soldered it to the base of the metal on the transformer as a ground. The arc is from one lead to the other, not the block
so i can attach a wire coming off the corner of the transformer and then put a capacitor in series with that and have a wire connected to the positive end of the capacitor, which I then arc off of?
how to make a high voltage power supply or could also be titled "how to electrocute yourself for dummies"
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Microwave transformers generate enough voltage to kill you before you hit the ground - and several people a year die doing these sorts of projects. It will not trip your breakers, since the output coil is isolated from the mains and it won't see any leakage to ground.
But yeah - if you are going to do stuff like this, using an extension and PVC pipe to stay some distance away is a halfway decent option. You might still burn your place down, but at least you have a couple of meters head start, and you are less likely to be the object starting the blaze, having had 2000V turn your fingers to charcoal.
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I once got shocked from a MOT but I don't know how I survived but I only got some burns on my leg it was pretty fast
Be careful where you put it down, those screw heads on the bottom have 2KV on them unless you disconnect the other end of the secondary from the transformer frame.
What kind of outlets do you have? Here where i live we have stage, neutral and ground coming out from the outlets and they are 230V. Did you just plug the stage and neutral to the primary coil and was there even a ground on the power cable?
Accumulated soil on a stick can make it conductive. I have seen nylon string with dirt on it draw a three foot long spark on a 2kv transformer
I don't get what you mean by dirt on the stick there is no such "soil" present. Thats so irrelevant.
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Why does the output of the secondary connect to the core? Why not just another terminal.
*A GFCI WILL NOT BREAK with those type of gapped transformer! High voltage high current is quick death. Most often it is found when the garage burns down bc the dead body starts the fire as the GFCI sees a perfectly normal load.*
Yep; transformers basically isolate like ethernet magnetics do.
Ok so I can connect this thing to mains and it wont melt the breakers?
Did you plug up the white extension cord to something when you tested it?
Or why didn’t you
Excellent vid! 🤜🏼⚡️🤛🏻
WTF is a vid?
Could i set that up for burning wood, would i have to put somthing to control the power? Any help would sure be helpfull
You could, but you shouldn't. It's incredibly dangerous. If you're going to do it anyway then controlling the input voltage can be done with a variac.
So if I connect a wire to one of the four bolts that hold it to the wood, that would work as a negative lead?
An electrical engineer would say that's incorrect, because it's AC, so it's neutral, not negative, but yes, you could see that as a possible negative lead. One thing though, there's some sort of isolating plasticky substance around the entire transformer core, which you have to sand off in order to get the best results.
Alright that's more or less the conclusion I had come to. Appreciate the response man! Keep making cool videos, I'm a fan of learning!
@@AKIOTV Great explanation. No other video has clearly explained between what two leads the potential difference lies. You did!
It's between the lead from the winding withe larger gauge wire (the secondary), and the body of the transformer (the core).
no your hold the wood, and bite down as hard as you can on the red wire
@@jzeerod Don't joke about that shit man.
What would be the easiest method to attach an actual lead for neutral. Could you solder a lead of appropriate gauge to the core?
I'm not sure soldering will work, but you can give it a try. If it doesn't, then just find some other way of getting a wire make good contact with the core. A method that comes up in my mind, is to put a metal plate in between the transformer and the wooden board, and then sandwiching a wire between the bottom of the transformer core and that metal plate.
Regardless of how you are going to do it, here are 3 things to remember: That wire better make good contact with the core, you do not want any arcs in this case, and also, don't forget to sand the part of the core that the wire is connected to, because the core is coated in a non- conductive material. Finally, don't take unneccesary risks because the thing could very well kill you.
If you scratch away some of the coating on one of the corners, you can put a bolt through it and tighten some solid copper to it. I used 12guage
You are all idiots its so easy to connect a wire. Use a ring terminal and a bolt and nut.
@@kane3331 exactly
short and simple! great, can you explain what the two red wires do, that were sticking out of the transformer and that you cut of ? what's their function in a microwave? and also - what the white, long plastic container is between the current lead and the capacitor?
those red wires are the output of a small coil with only a few turns. This provides a low voltage (I believe 4 volts or so) to power some sort of filament in the magnetron.
The large white thing is simply a 0.7A fuse.
@@AKIOTV and what's the white insulation inside those red wires made of ?
@@Cockalicious it's tape with some wax on it
@@tinafriesen9542 no im talking about the red sleeve on the wires that attach to the magnetron
@@Cockalicious idk it's just wire with some stiff thread around it
Belive it or not i can bolt a coil down, tell me what i dont know
You don't know how to spell or use punctuation?
Thx for the video, I did what the Video said and it worked but how do I cool the transformer,it gets pretty hot and my first transformer melted after 48h and my other transformer seems like it gets weaker, does someone know how to fix this?
I put a heatsink on it and have a wire connected to the frame so I'm not arcing directly to the core, you can easily arc to the secondary winding which has very thin wires and they will melt and destroy the transformer. If you want to get serious (use MOTs for purposes other than messing around with,) I would recommend putting them in some sort of container and flooding them with mineral oil because it draws away the heat quite well, Ive found.
Thx?
Can I make a magnetron laser with megatron
im from indonesia good job
im need trans former microwave i have not money
So what would you use a 2000v power supply for??
To drive a Tesla tower
pranking your little brother with the 2000v electrified bed
electrocuting someone
@@dailygaming2614 2 kv is too low for a tesla coil
as a method of suicide
What would you use that for
For building a PC
Search 'fractal wood burning' or 'lichtenberg device', also 'jabobs ladder' or 'electric foundry'
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This is probably one of the most dangerous and stupid things you can do. If you do this and fuck it up - consult a mortician. As bang you're dead 💀
...in case you want to build a house fire?
This is not a toy, and not a good around-the-house project. Especially not for beginners. If you have the training and the safety equipment then it might be worth your time, maybe, but machines that handle this much energy per second don't believe in patience, or pity, or remorse, or mercy. If you're not _extremely_ careful, this thing WILL deprive your loved ones of you.
Shorting the transformer is a fast way to kill it, happened to my first mot.
Arkadaşım güzel video olmuş , Teşekkürler . Ark oluşumu ile metal eritme fırını yapılabilirmi. Bu konuda fikri olan varmı.
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Take this down! A man just died from using your advice. This is real. Left 4 kids behind and a wife.
If he was so stupid, he shouldnt have left 4 kids with his genes behing
Because he did not follow basic safety rules he never used gloves or rubber insolator while discharging the capacitor. That was 100% his fault and people should know basic safety before going into this
Mine keeps tripping the surge protector, what can I do to fix this?
don't use a surge protector
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Creative video, thanks for sharing :)
the question still stands, how the fk is this a power supply ? it has 2500 Voltages, it's gonna burn anything in it's way.
I agree its not a power supply its a death trap. At least build an enclosure and ground everything.
Whats the watt number of one piece transformer?
around 700-1000 watts I think
what would be the current of this killer
@Gazr Gazr Wrong! 500mA is what the magnetron runs at- MOT's whack out around 1 amp to 2 amps on some bigger MOTs.
220*2Amp= 2000*?
Bug zapper's generate around 2kv and may be safe to touch(non lethal). Far away from this thing, how many amps it delivers?
It's somewhere in between 0.5 and 1 A. That's quite a lot, and touching it would be quite lethal. These numbers mean that the overall power output of the transformer is somewhere in between 1000 and 2000 watts.
some MOT's I've seen are capable of continuous use at over twice the rated power of the microwave if you knock out the magnetic shunts and add some more windings to the primary and, if you'd like, the secondary. iirc 10-20 windings added to the primary will increase both the power and efficiency of the transformer to be able to get sometimes up to 3-5kw from a single mot, though some can only get to 1.5-2.5 kw continuous. they use the magnetic shunts because it's cheaper than extra copper for more windings, which can have a huge budget impact when mass producing something of more expensive metal like copper, but not a big deal for an individual who would only need a few more feet of copper wire for a single project.
5 amps
@@lazyh-online4839 Correct me if I'm wrong but wouldn't adding windings to the primary lower the voltage produced by the secondary? I'm still experimenting with a couple MOTs I have. The primary heats up really fast on both of them, even with a heat seek and a fan they still get hot.
@@johnruscigno5738 yes, it would decrease the voltage of the secondary an amount relative to the number of turns, which means you need to adjust the secondary windings accordingly. That being said, without the magnetic shunts you'll have much more room to work with. You need to be VERY careful with your windings if you want to get those higher power levels safely so you can make best use of the transformer area. When making a high amperage transformer for a power supply I used strips of copper instead of copper wire, and used a thin plastic wrap between the windings to give a VERY good fill percent compared to round wire, but I'd recommend getting professionally made "shaped" enameled wire rather than doing it the way I did. I left a 1/16 inch gap between windings on the ends extending out from the transformer so the windings themselves acted as a rudimentary heatsink, which worked really well since copper conducts heat so effectively.
Wouldn't the transformer get too hot?
Not if you have good connections. Yes, if you arc it out like he did.
Yes It will get extremely hot and burn out in 30 seconds if you arc. You need a big transformer from an old microwave.
could this be used for a computer?
wtf ?
yeah... to fry it
@@Dinco422 ??? computers operate on upwards of 1k watts goofy, apparently whatever u used to post that comment is a piece of shit
@@werewolf2747 your computer would fucking explode if you use that 😆
@@kutsja4671 it's running on a 700 watt rn and already had by the time I put that comment lol
Can ya build a bug zapper with that
Technically you can, but it might set your house on fire when you zap a bug.
hhhh lol
how it can be useful what sort of apliances i can use to use the power that it gives
there is this one video he adds magmet to the side of transformer
It would be much more useful to power and electric fence.
@@felixcat4346 Not really. You can use these things for burning patterns in wood, powering tesla coils, etc.
Output AC or DC?
AC
@@AKIOTV is it gives electro static force?
@@kadasatish7382 bro learn some elementary school physics
Is it 60 hz?
mine is 50hz
@@AKIOTV is shorting the cap the way you show really safe? Wont that like discharge with a huge spart?
Tesla coil next!
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where do I get a power plug with those plastic ends
what plastic ends?
Price
Search 'fractal wood burning' or 'lichtenberg device', also 'jabobs ladder' or 'electric foundry' for uses
Also sure suicide device.
I agree, @@bobbysworlds , small emp effect can be made with spark gap generators operating on 3.7v batteries (search youtube) so it seems to me that if you can build/buy a capacitor (condenser) that can store and repeatedly discharge this high voltage X times a second to a gap tuned by distance mounted at the back of a cone to both direct it and prevent it from disabling non-targeted electronics it could be useful (say, mounted in a car's trunk pointed out the rear). connect2>imdawolfman@gmail for meeting of minds.
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How do I convert this the right way to use to burn wood?? I think it's called the Lichenberg effect
You need to do exactly what he did in this video, but get yourself some fairly thick flexible copper wire (a few feet is good, whatever you need to get from the transformer to both ends of your workpiece without being so long that they're unsafe, but also not so short that they might tug on something) with thick silicone insulation and extend the wire coming from your high voltage positive wire, and attach another length of wire directly to the steel body of the transformer as your ground that will go to the other end of your workpiece. You need an electrolyte to help conduct current across the wood surface too, a solution of sodium bicarbonate/baking soda or ammonium chloride will work well. There are lots of sources online for what concentrations work best, just read around for a bit. Good luck with your Lichtenberg figures!
@@TheExplosiveGuy If you don't understand how it works then you shouldn't use it. If you touch something hot you'll be a corpse before you hit the floor.
DO NOT DO THIS for woodburning, its fucking deadly
Big Clive has a video on that.
A little knowledge is dangerous
IF YOU’RE SENSITIVE, DON’T READ THIS:
In my appliance repair trade school we saw pictures of a guys’ arm after he touched the exterior of a microwave that wasn’t grounded; it was unplugged, but the high-voltage capacitor still held a charge. I’ll just say he’s lucky to still be alive. The electricity caused his arm to cook instantaneously and burst open. That’s a pretty happy ending, considering the statistics of two appliance repair person deaths per year, directly related to electrocution. If you’re going to work on a microwave, please make sure you have a good understanding of electricity and you also have insulated tools and gloves. Microwaves we’re a failed military weapons project that they turned into an oven.
This is hardly possible. High voltage capacitors in microwave ovens are rated around 1uF. In worst case, when capacitor is fully charged (around 2kV), stored energy would be around 2 Joules. This amount of energy cannot cook arm, nor make it burst open (one match releases more than 1000 Joules when burn, this is 500 times less energy). It would shock you, and it certainly wouldn't be pleasant, but it simply doesn't carry enough energy to hurt limb like that.
That's not a power supply really, that's just plugging the transformer into the mains
fair enough. old style power supplies aren't much more though.
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Lol... 'power supply'... this is no where near a power supply, it's a death sentence
All we did was put that transformer into the wall
What about an earth.. !
yo if you’re here looking to get a microwave transformer for fractal wood burning Don’t. don’t do it. this video sounds like it tells you the danger but idk i haven’t watched the whole thing
experienced electricians have died trying fractal wood burning. watch ann reardon’s video in her channel How to Cook That because it explains the dangers better than i could
This isn't a "power supply" is it? What are you powering? It COULD be but you failed to demonstrate that so It's just an accident waiting to happen. Also, your accent sounds like Sean Connery gargling with motor oil. Clear your throat for God's sakes! Then say, "Moneypenny, given the "danger to usefulness ratio" this video is just irresponsible".
A power supply is a device that converts mains power into something with a different voltage and frequency. This thing does just that.
As for safety, warnings are in the video, safety measures were taken, risks were low. On top of that, the output of the transformer is floating, so you'd have to touch both wires to be electrocuted, which again, doesn't happen cause I'm a few meters away operating the thing with a stick. Compared to other videos on this device, my safety measures were pretty solid.
TL;DR: get over it.
@@AKIOTV It doesn't change the frequency but other than that you're on point. I think this video didn't emphasize just how dangerous a MOT is however and I hope you can write a comment and pin it such that people are informed. MOTs kill and should not be handled by anyone without a solid grasp of electronics.
Nice video but microwaves have no radiation
When the oven is turned on the magnetron generates microwaves, which are a form of electromagnetic radiation. Although I think you meant ionising radiation (aka hazardous radiation), which indeed, the microwave doesn't produce.
AKIO TV yes sorry I should have been more specific I really love your channel
Keep up the great work!
@@AKIOTV it's hazardous alright, if you turn a magnetron on in the same room it will fully sterilise a mans reproductive system in minutes.
as it will also kill seeds in the ground (induced currents)
Since the transformer casing is connected to the nuts, when the whole thing is under tension and sitting on a damp concrete floor, it might kill you. If you put it on a conductive table you're leaning against, it will easily kill you.
This is really playing with death and just a horrible design. Thumbs down and reported.
Well there's a Democrat idea if I ever saw one go to all that trouble to extract that and put it together to work and then use it to destroy itself smh ...
please do not do this
240 Volts? In the US all microwaves that i know of are 120 V
Bro, the rest of the world uses 230v, you are the odd one out
Why are your arcs smaller than mine 🧐🤔🥲🥲??
Cause he doesn't know what resonant capacitors are