I show how i made my lichtenberg wood burning machine from a microwave oven transformer to burn lichtenberg figures or fractal burns. How to make a lichtenberg burner with a microwave transformer.
Woodburning With Electricity Burning Wood With Electricity
Microwave transformer lichtenberg wiring diagram. I believe you wired this wrong. Wiring up the microwave transformer having sourced your microwave remove the casing and you will clearly see the transformer sitting below the magnetron and to the side of the oven itself. Beside it there should be a capacitor connected by a heavy duty wire to the high voltage side of the transformer the secondary coil. Lichtenberg figures are formed when high voltage electricity passes along the surface of an insulated material. This can trip the breakerit happened to me. If you would like to donate to my channel so i can upgrade my video equipment here is the link.
One thing about microwave transformers is that without a ballast mots draw high amounts of current in the 30 amperes range if using 120 volt mains. We will talk about how to fix that later. It gives approx 4kv using a 2kv transformer pulsed dc so arcs are not massive. If you want more power you can wire 2 microwave oven transformers in series as a half resonant circuit or better yet wire 2 in series in parallel with 2 more in series and connect them like this. To wire it correctly you must connect the cases together and ground it then arc between the 2 hv out wires. Looking at how the voltage doubler circuit works inside a microwave its the purpose of the capacitor and diode.
For now to hook up the mot get a power cord and strip off the end exposing the live and neutral wires. You can use a microwave transformer to build a machine that will produce lichtenberg figures.
Gallery of Microwave Transformer Lichtenberg Wiring Diagram
