Plasma Arc Vortex Speaker

After replacing the power supply and adding an RC snubber across the flyback transformer primary, my plasma speaker is already much louder. The addition of a more powerful PSU, it allowed me to also reduce the number of turns on the primary, which increased the voltage output. The RC snubber not only protects the MOSFET from the inductive spike of the flyback transformer, but it also drastically reduces the ringing associated with the capacitance between the MOSFET drain and source and the leakage inductanc