Re: Piezo HV Power Supply

["Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>]

Original poster: "marc metlicka by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <mystuffs-at-orwell-dot-net>



Tesla list wrote:
> 
> Original poster: "Jan Florian Wagner by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <jwagner-at-cc.hut.fi>
> 
> > Have any of you made a Piezo Electric HVDC power
> > Supply?
> 

I used a piezo unit to build a single shot triggered spark gap for use
in pulse discharge use. They work really well for this, isolating the
operator from the hv arc. never considered a continuos psu from them?
Take care,
Marc M.