I’m in the middle of building a small cloud chamber to make ionizing radiation visible. This is just to document a few findings of mine without going into the details of how and why a cloud chamber works. My cloud Weiterlesen…
This is the first x-ray image I produced. A garage door opener is used to turn on the filament heater and the high voltage suppy. Then the camera is triggered remotely with a shutter speed of 1 or 2 seconds. Weiterlesen…
This charger failed and I wanted to check what’s the reason and if it could be fixed easily. Unfortunately I cannot read the marking on that SO chip. Also it’s very likely that another failed component cause the explosion of Weiterlesen…
I wanted to do some high voltage experiments which leads to the need of a high voltage transformer. It seemed to make sense to build the case from aluminium and fill the whole thing with oil. The core is a Weiterlesen…