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RE: Voltage multiplier ?
I can buy a 15000v/60mA virgin neon sign transformer
from France corporation for about $170. If you can
afford that and the postage I'll arrange it.
Barry
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|From: "tesla-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com"-at-PMDF-at-PAXMB1
|To: Benson Barry; "Tesla-list-subscribers-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com"-at-PMDF-at-PAXMB1
|Subject: Voltage multiplier ?
|Date: Monday, November 25, 1996 2:55PM
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|From Hans.Grimstad-at-maxware.noMon Nov 25 11:01:22 1996
|Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 12:33:02 +0100
|From: Hans.Grimstad-at-maxware.no
|To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
|Subject: Voltage multiplier ?
|
|Hi !
|
|I built my first coil this summer. It's a small coil with homemade glass
|capacitors (Frutopia
|bottles (600 pF each). The power supply is an old ignition transformer
|powered from a
|variac.
|
|Problem #1: No spark.... I can light fluorescent tubes with it at a
distance
|of up to 40-50 cm,
|but that's it. This is obviously not much fun. It is possible to draw a
spark
|for the coil with a
|grounded rod, but it is not very impressive. 8(
|
|Problem #2: Used neons are hard to come by where I live (Norway). They are
|*VERY*
|expensive. A neon rated at 4000V/45ma is 800 NOK (that's more than $120).
|
|
|OK. Here's the (possibly very stupid) question:
|
|Is it feasible use a Cockroft Walton voltage multiplier instead of a neon
|transformer as a
|power source for a small TC ? If I were to step up the voltage from the
|mains (220 V) to 10000
|V, I would need 90 diodes and 90 (very large ?) capacitors. It would be
|easier to build
|something like this, than to wind my own HV transformer.
|Has anyone experimented with something like this ?
|
|
|Hans J|rgen Grimstad
|Norway
|