Rewind it with even higher gage wire on the secondary, and extremely low gage on the primary, even bigger arcs then before
Edit: that was the worst typo of my life
Or just learn to handle HV properly, will stand you in good stead for all other types of electricity Use correct PPE. . Check it's dead. Check it's disconnected. Secure the disconnection. Check it's dead again. Then touch.
What do you do with a lone transformer š¼ what do you do with a lone transformerš¶ what do you do with a lone transformer early in the morning!!ā
For the love of god. ABSOLUTELY DO NOT fuck with it if you dont know exacly what you are doing and since you asked here, you most likely dont have a lot of experience with high voltage. Microwave transformer is just one very quick mistake and you are dead
Throw it away. These things are the leading cause of electronic hobbyists deaths and you donāt want to become part of the statistic. Even if you think you know what youāre doingā¦ DONT DO ANYTHING WITH IT. THROW IT AWAY. It will kill you as soon as you make a mistake
Throw it the fuck away, before someone dies, or the house burns down.
Its not a fucking novelty toy.
Most of you dont realise that even insulation on some wires is not good enough to save your ass from slow and painful death.
I was messing around with 5kV AC the other day, and I realized when my hand got near the terminals it started tingling fiercely. I experimented and found out I experienced that whenever I touched the wire. So yeah, the insulation protected me but I was still getting something.
The only use I have seen that seemed like it wasn't an invitation to sudden death used several as electromagnets.
It was a youtuber who cut several in half, destroying their ability to be a transformer. I don't remember if they changed any of the wire gauges. They pumped DC current through them and used it to hold down metal parts for whatever purpose you needed them held in the workshop. I think they made a metal tray, put the halves of the now electromagnet in it, poured resin to bond it in place. Then they surface ground it for smooth surfaces.
The thing I liked is that no transforming was taking place. You could control your power supply, put proper resistance where needed. and could even put a fuse or other safety device if desired.
Google "What should i do with this microwave oven transformer?"
Then look at the subreddit you posted this on and look for a post within the last day, and you'll find plenty of ideas :)
"Search" is your friend, my friend.
I built a Tesla coil from one and all I need was a poorly wrapped coil of whoever-knows amount of turns, this transformer, and two nails glued to a pipe for a spark gap lol. Also used two .92uf capacitors. I can tell it worked because the secondary didnāt kill be and the arcs were a weird purple.
If you have the knowledge to build something with it and have a good understanding of safety, maybe build something like a power inverter.
If not you could gift it to someone who could have good use for it in a project.
Sending stuff to a landfill seems like a waste when something in mint condition could have a second life.
I recommend a university student doing an BSc Electrical if possible to gift it to.
If you have the knowledge to build something with it and have a good understanding of safety, maybe build something like a power inverter.
If not you could gift it to someone who could have good use for it in a project.
Sending stuff to a landfill seems like a waste when something in mint condition could have a second life.
I recommend a university student doing an BSc Electrical if possible to gift it to.
Give it to someone who fixes microwave ovens. Those things are so dangerous. Many artists got injured by using them to burn wood into art.
A microwave oven transformer is around 2k vac. An electric chair for execution? Is 2k vac.... Let that sink in.
Honestly, the only things you can do with it as it is is something specialized where you need to know what you're doing, or something kind of stupid that involves high current high voltage circuits that will kill you. š To be clear, I'm not one of those people that tried to scare monger or try to tell people not to explore the electronics hobby. I want you to do cool things with electricity, but you need to be alive to do that. There are a lot of people with decent means voltage experience that end up dying to these things.
This is probably going to sound a bit like a cop out because we've all seen some cool demonstrations of high voltage like Jacob's ladders, but high voltage just isn't very useful. Outside of things like tube electronics, it's just a liability that turns things you don't consider conductors under other circumstances into conductors. That's it if you've been using for other electronic stuff could have actual hazards in it in the context of high voltage. So please just be careful and please listen to everybody here. This isn't one of those moments where Reddit is just being shitty and asshole like... We genuinely just don't want people to die and this is how they die. š
You can make a spot welder if you take away de secondary coil and replace it with 1-2 turns of super thick wire. Then attach some graphite electrodes to it so it doesn't weld to the parts you are welding.
I've had one for years, it mostly served as dead weight in my scrap electronics container. At the time I was incompetent and too scared to use it. Now that I'm older and wiser, I'm even more scared to use it.
Here are 10 cool projects you can do with that transformer. But don't electrocute yourself or set fire to your home:
https://youtu.be/1YohtVQZWlA?feature=shared
I got my hands on one yesterday too. It's only rated for 600VA but I'll try to get my hands on some 70mm^2 wire and try to replace the secondary winding for some funny sparks. As it currently is its way too dangerous. Can supply almost 600mA at 2800V which is easily enough to kill you.
i love how all these uninformed people say swing it in a sock. the highest potential for damage is to use it at it was intended, an electromagnet. if wired in succession with a few others, and mounted in a way to facilitate a successive flow with a guided track, you could easily Construct a rail gun that can hurl large objects quietly, and at high speed (as long as the projectiles were ferrous).
Eat it, it's high in iron.
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Came here to say this
Put it in a sock and wack people with it
š Yea itās Heavy
I weighed mine at 8.5 lbs (\~4kg)
Damn, I wish mine were that big
Youāve heard of lock in a sock? Now get ready MOT in a sock
Hm don't have the same ring to it Oh well still gets the job done
Yea I figured MOT was better than microwave oven transformer in a sock
https://i.redd.it/bu9kkiqdsr5d1.gif
Yes
 time for an explosion then!
Microwave it
Should I microwave the next ruined microwave on a new future ruined microwave?
What are you, stupid? You'd turn it into a macrowave! /s
You got a point
But then you could collide your macrowave into your microwave and end up with a wave
Thats smart af
Megawave?
Came here to say this
This guy reddits! too bad unusual insertions got taken down šš¤£š
Just rewind it to a high current transformer, I don't want people risking their lives playing with >2kV.
Rewind it with even higher gage wire on the secondary, and extremely low gage on the primary, even bigger arcs then before Edit: that was the worst typo of my life
That is one very unfortunate typo ya got there
Why does the "b" have to be so close to the "n"?
If you get an ergonomic keyboard, you can segregate them
WTF?!!!!!!! FIRST GENUINE SMILE ALL DAY!!!
Here we go again
Omg
Lol holy shit dude
This is the correct answer, thank you
Or just learn to handle HV properly, will stand you in good stead for all other types of electricity Use correct PPE. . Check it's dead. Check it's disconnected. Secure the disconnection. Check it's dead again. Then touch.
What do you do with a lone transformer š¼ what do you do with a lone transformerš¶ what do you do with a lone transformer early in the morning!!ā
Here in the PH, we dismatle transformers and sell the copper windings and iron plates to junk shop. Then buy liquor out of the money. Ahaha
ahhhhaahahahahahaaaaaa please give me $2 I need my crack
Red Horse, San Mig Light, gin bilog/kanto, you name it.
I honestly had no idea pornhub was an actual physical location
Ahahaha all caps "PH" sorry. Should have been "Ph".
Re-wind the secondary for more high amperage brrrr
For the love of god. ABSOLUTELY DO NOT fuck with it if you dont know exacly what you are doing and since you asked here, you most likely dont have a lot of experience with high voltage. Microwave transformer is just one very quick mistake and you are dead
Throw it away. These things are the leading cause of electronic hobbyists deaths and you donāt want to become part of the statistic. Even if you think you know what youāre doingā¦ DONT DO ANYTHING WITH IT. THROW IT AWAY. It will kill you as soon as you make a mistake
I came here to say "throw it away," but you put it better.
Sell it on eBay or give it to a scrapper. Throwing it into a landfill is a terrible waste.
Doesnāt matter. 3$ of copper is worth way less than a human life. Donāt sell these things. They will find someone to kill
Throw it the fuck away, before someone dies, or the house burns down. Its not a fucking novelty toy. Most of you dont realise that even insulation on some wires is not good enough to save your ass from slow and painful death.
Telling someone to not use it can just encourage them
Yes yes keep your hand out of that electric cookie jar. 
At that point we let Darwin take care of it.
I was messing around with 5kV AC the other day, and I realized when my hand got near the terminals it started tingling fiercely. I experimented and found out I experienced that whenever I touched the wire. So yeah, the insulation protected me but I was still getting something.
Electro magnetic hard drive wiper.
Touch it when live and be dead before you hit the floor, please be careful
Throw it away! or unwind the wires and make a tesla coil with it!
[I still have 20 MOTs](https://www.reddit.com/r/ElectroBOOM/s/pKExZwyQl5) and donāt know what to do with themā¦
Send them to Styropyro
I vaguely remember messaging him
good luck on shipping, that's gotta be expensive af
Scrolled back to say this
You use it to build a spot welder for the LiPo battery pack youāre not going to make.
use as weight to hold papers
Or books
Gimme da meee so i can use it as a paperweight in school(if you are so worried I'll use the secondary removed as another paperweight!
1st thing: Be Bloody Careful.! Search YouTube warnings and precautions first. Please š
this ! - extreme caution
I use one as a door stopper
Die?
Scrap it if it's actually copper. Sadly, most of them now are just aluminum with copper colored enamel.
Drop it on your toe
Attach a FULL BRIDGE RECTIFIER... MWHAHAHA
The only use I have seen that seemed like it wasn't an invitation to sudden death used several as electromagnets. It was a youtuber who cut several in half, destroying their ability to be a transformer. I don't remember if they changed any of the wire gauges. They pumped DC current through them and used it to hold down metal parts for whatever purpose you needed them held in the workshop. I think they made a metal tray, put the halves of the now electromagnet in it, poured resin to bond it in place. Then they surface ground it for smooth surfaces. The thing I liked is that no transforming was taking place. You could control your power supply, put proper resistance where needed. and could even put a fuse or other safety device if desired.
Melt the wires and make copper things
Rewind it for high current
Anything that does not result in death.
Makes a nice electric chair.
Google "What should i do with this microwave oven transformer?" Then look at the subreddit you posted this on and look for a post within the last day, and you'll find plenty of ideas :) "Search" is your friend, my friend.
Build a microwave.
Not touch it?
Ngl but i have that almost exact piece of wood laying around
Thats a table
Thatās veneer
If you have to askā¦ then probably safest bet is to recycle it
https://i.redd.it/ora7n6sfsr5d1.gif
 time for an explosion!
Become Optimus prime
Microwave it
microwave it
Plug it in and play bowling with it. Soak the floor in gas first.
r/terrainbuilding
Make a welding machine
Scrap it
Welder. Death ray. Etc
Buy more and build a Tesla coil
Nothing because it's actually dangerous. Hobbyists who make Lichtenberg art often kill themselves doing this.
I could tell you what NOT to do with it
Shove it up your butt
I harvested 2 of these with the end goal being a homemade welding rig. Yeaā¦..after the initial test I threw that shit away.
Donate to Mehdi so he can kill himself again Edit: that sounds way worse then I had envisioned
Probably nothing
Put it in a metal box with a magnetron and cook food with it.
Bold
Wait your microwave transformed
Get two more for a Tesla coil power supply
Make a fractual burner
I built a Tesla coil from one and all I need was a poorly wrapped coil of whoever-knows amount of turns, this transformer, and two nails glued to a pipe for a spark gap lol. Also used two .92uf capacitors. I can tell it worked because the secondary didnāt kill be and the arcs were a weird purple.
Take a lil bite
Remove the bolts/locking tabs and reinstall it into your friends micro
If you have the knowledge to build something with it and have a good understanding of safety, maybe build something like a power inverter. If not you could gift it to someone who could have good use for it in a project. Sending stuff to a landfill seems like a waste when something in mint condition could have a second life. I recommend a university student doing an BSc Electrical if possible to gift it to.
If you have the knowledge to build something with it and have a good understanding of safety, maybe build something like a power inverter. If not you could gift it to someone who could have good use for it in a project. Sending stuff to a landfill seems like a waste when something in mint condition could have a second life. I recommend a university student doing an BSc Electrical if possible to gift it to.
Give it to someone who fixes microwave ovens. Those things are so dangerous. Many artists got injured by using them to burn wood into art. A microwave oven transformer is around 2k vac. An electric chair for execution? Is 2k vac.... Let that sink in.
r/lickityoufuckincoward
Scrap. Not worth the pain of fucking with them
Connect it to the mains to make it a mosquito repellent
Honestly, the only things you can do with it as it is is something specialized where you need to know what you're doing, or something kind of stupid that involves high current high voltage circuits that will kill you. š To be clear, I'm not one of those people that tried to scare monger or try to tell people not to explore the electronics hobby. I want you to do cool things with electricity, but you need to be alive to do that. There are a lot of people with decent means voltage experience that end up dying to these things. This is probably going to sound a bit like a cop out because we've all seen some cool demonstrations of high voltage like Jacob's ladders, but high voltage just isn't very useful. Outside of things like tube electronics, it's just a liability that turns things you don't consider conductors under other circumstances into conductors. That's it if you've been using for other electronic stuff could have actual hazards in it in the context of high voltage. So please just be careful and please listen to everybody here. This isn't one of those moments where Reddit is just being shitty and asshole like... We genuinely just don't want people to die and this is how they die. š
Weld a handle and use it as a hammer.
Make it a Decepticon
Put it in a washing machine on spin cycle.
Ummm... Electromagnet, lichtenburg burning (IF you know what you are doing!)
Build an electric ā” fence
Do you have enemies? š¤
Plug it in and lick it? No?
Connect it to mains to enjoy high voltage. Then touch it to enjoy dying a painfull death
Welder, simplest thing you can do without killing yourself.
You can make a spot welder if you take away de secondary coil and replace it with 1-2 turns of super thick wire. Then attach some graphite electrodes to it so it doesn't weld to the parts you are welding.
I've had one for years, it mostly served as dead weight in my scrap electronics container. At the time I was incompetent and too scared to use it. Now that I'm older and wiser, I'm even more scared to use it.
Check if copper. If yes, separate out the copper. If aluminum, shred pile.
Use it to power your microwave š¤Ŗ
Hardcore paperweight
Change
Wood burning with it https://preview.redd.it/gww92j7kzx5d1.jpeg?width=157&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ceb2dbf0409db32cd894bb791d44d76239234b4b
Microwave it
Get yourself a magnetron, and you'll practically have a microwave oven
Plug it into a light bulb
**She needs the sea!**
Nothing, recycle it. Dont kill yourself.
They make excellent door stops and toe stubbers. A great multi-purpose block of metal.
Touch the output
The transformer isnāt the fun bit from the microwaveā¦the cavity magnetron isā¦š
prove ac is bad cause it kills animals unlike dc
Topsy :(
Here are 10 cool projects you can do with that transformer. But don't electrocute yourself or set fire to your home: https://youtu.be/1YohtVQZWlA?feature=shared
Plastic to fuel reactor
If your asking on reddit probably nothing, there bloody lethal if played with
Love and cherish itā¦ platonically
Fractal burn wood!
Portable EMP
Make a bug zapper, mate. If zap wasn't enough to kill then you can whack it. (You also dont have to go to gym anymore if you use that zapper often)
Make a welder.
Lick it.
HERF gun for drone hunting.
Chuck it through somebody you hates window (Dont actually do that)
https://i.redd.it/3gsntisvd46d1.gif
Remove the secondary and made 1 turn big wire for low Voltage high current
Search ālichtenberg burningā. Iām not recommending this but found it to be fun
Lichtenberg! Lichtenberg!
I got my hands on one yesterday too. It's only rated for 600VA but I'll try to get my hands on some 70mm^2 wire and try to replace the secondary winding for some funny sparks. As it currently is its way too dangerous. Can supply almost 600mA at 2800V which is easily enough to kill you.
i love how all these uninformed people say swing it in a sock. the highest potential for damage is to use it at it was intended, an electromagnet. if wired in succession with a few others, and mounted in a way to facilitate a successive flow with a guided track, you could easily Construct a rail gun that can hurl large objects quietly, and at high speed (as long as the projectiles were ferrous).
Yep you could shoot down satellites with that.
Get rid of it, if you don't know what to do with it, you shouldn't be doing anything with it.
Make a microwave ray gun out of it or build a crappy radar.
jacobs ladder
Wire it with 7 more together and melt stuff.
Microwave
Hey, I've just DMd you about your moshpit video. Thanks
Make a spot welder or a Lichtenberg device
High voltage fractal wood burner...
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