Fun with toys
Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 2:32 pm
Last night I finally got a chance to turn on my test circuit for a welder/magnet supply. Blew the magic smoke out of one part and a fuse on the wall transformer, but got enough scope traces to go back and figure out what I did wrong.
It's fun to grab scrap parts and slap them together to see what happens, and when smoke happens I tend to learn more. Fortunately, blowing up scrap doesn't cost me much! And fuses are pretty cheap too
Hopefully over the next few months I'll get things going correctly. The same circuit can be used as the front end for a high voltage supply too, so once I figure out what my scrap parts can deal with I should be set for power supplies.
But I'd better order a large box of fuses...
It's fun to grab scrap parts and slap them together to see what happens, and when smoke happens I tend to learn more. Fortunately, blowing up scrap doesn't cost me much! And fuses are pretty cheap too
Hopefully over the next few months I'll get things going correctly. The same circuit can be used as the front end for a high voltage supply too, so once I figure out what my scrap parts can deal with I should be set for power supplies.
But I'd better order a large box of fuses...