Re: Good Deal SURE!

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• Subject: Re: Good Deal SURE!
• From: Robert Volk <smrtmny2-at-earthlink-dot-net> (by way of Terry Fritz <twf-at-verinet-dot-com>)
• Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 18:12:22 -0700
• Approved: twf-at-verinet-dot-com

Nick,
What is a cockroft ladder?

Bob


> 
> Hi All,
>                I agree you could build a liniac with that psu but there is no
> point. (Tiny beam energy - good for big cyclotron though)  I could believe it
> was a psu for electron beam welding or something similar -not sputtering. 
You
> are right about the marx bank but why bother when you could take out the
> rectifier and put a cockroft ladder on the output (of a single phase)?
> Normally a marx bank is only used when you have reached the practical limits
> of capacitor voltage ( about 100kV ) where as that psu gives 15kV, plenty of
> stages of multiplication before you need a marx bank. 
> I'm not sure about his but would It be possible to rectify each phase
> separately then 'stack' the voltages?
> 
> NIck Field

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