Unfortunately, the original transformers were not up to the task of creating a musical arc. At that point the project had taken on a life of its own.

Not All Transformers Work In A Conventional Manner This Philips TV from back in the day supplies the basic circuit of a flyback driver.

A look at the design of a continuous mode flyback transformer - presenting one more example of the function of an air gap in a ferrite core.

An old tube TV (or, if you have the parts available, a flyback transformer, a power NPN transistors, a 220 ohm resistor rated at 1/2 a Watt, and a 27 ohm resistor rated at 2 Watts) A florescent ...

The controller works by sampling (in the analog domain) the delivered output voltage as observed via a tertiary winding on the special flyback transformer. It implements a switched-mode, quasi ...