Holiday projects

With the holidays drawing to a close, I thought it'd be a good idea to summarise what I've done and what I have planned left to do.

Babington oil burner

With most projects, they have to start somewhere. One day I hope to make a foundry for melting and casting metal, and the logical place to start was the fire. After an amount of research and parent nagging the babington oil burner build was commenced... Here's the not very well documented build log for it.

ZVS Flyback Driver

Well, on route to one of my many other projects I needed a form of ignitor, couldn't get my hands on any neon sign transformers (the three local sign places either didn't have any, or wanted $100 a piece), and MOT's were too low voltage for my needs. My attempts at winding a step up transformer also resulted in a step down transformer due to lack of wire. Here's how I managed to create a ZVS driver and not electrocute myself in the process!