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FrozenGate by Avery

Super small YAG laser cavity

Alaskan said:
Yea, youngin out pacing his knowledge, wanting to buy and try before fully researching the tech enough, is how he blew out that SSY-1 flashtube putting HV on it without an inductor to limit the current surge.
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Yup! Quick way to get hurt or damage expensive components.
 





You are getting close to 9000 posts, Chris. Didn't mean to derail the thread.....it's just that I noticed it now and wanted to comment. :yh:
 
Hey! At least I’m trying to learn... 95 percent of kids my age just want to play video games and sit on their butts and drink alcohol. I’ve got a job, I’ve got a career goal in mind, and I’m learning about that career, I may over step things but that’s how I learn, hands on. :)
 
That's what I did, got into amateur radio when i was 16 years old, started learning electronics that way first, then in college.
 
Hey guys, that’s awesome Alaskan I was thinking about doing HAM radio...anyway I was digging through my pile of Chinese things from eBay, found a 900 volt capacitor charger module and it charges them in legit ten seconds to 800 joules, the size of a hot wheels car... I don’t know how the Chinese do it but they might have just saved my life :) :)
 
Alright here is a link to the album called capacitor charger. The module itself slowly ramps up (well not very slow) to 70-80 watts, consuming 5 amps in the process. Charges in 10 or so seconds maybe less. I took advice and made a little table down stairs off the carpet and under the tables are all my eBay stuff. I’m super impressed at that module it made my entire day happy.
Edit: the module can go up to 280 watts holy shit...excuse my language but how is that even possible in such a small thing, 23 amps of input current and the capacitors would charge in like 1 second :)
https://ibb.co/cGtqVn
 
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You just have to get rid of those flimsy clip leads and wire that thing up properly. Trying to force that much current through those little things is a catastrophe waiting to happen.
 
I tried using high voltage silicone wire the other day but concluded that I suck at soldering...literally the most useless human being ever at soldering I couldn’t do it to save the world lol. What kind of wire should I use for the least resistance to make sure it all gets to the flashlamp? I’m also ordering a new inductor (large) to make sure it can handle the current instead of those little ones
 
If you are going to have a career in electronics, you'll have to learn. You'll need a GOOD thermostatically controlled solder station with several interchangeable tips of different sizes and a quality 63% tin 37% lead rosin core solder, some flux and a lot of practice. For wire, I'd use some heavy gauge stranded copper wire insulated to 3000 volts. Then put it in a project box with your caps and have a dump resistor that shorts across the caps whenever the box is open.
 
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Branson33 said:
I suck at soldering...literally the most useless human being ever at soldering I couldn’t do it to save the world lol.
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Is that why the black lead on the SSY-1 flashlamp fell off? It had a cold soldering joint so bad it came off with very careful handling. Paul, appears he speak the truth about his soldering skills :crackup::crackup::crackup:
 
Yeah sorry about that Alaskan I told you I tell the truth hehe :) ;) but yes that proves I suck but I am willing to learn so first step get a good soldering iron and bleed resistors so I don’t blow my arm off
 
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