Re: high voltage doubling transformer

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Original poster: "Crow Leader by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <tesla-at-lists.symmetric-dot-net>

You could do this, BUT it's sort of pointless-

Say we have 8kV and want 16kV with 500mA in. Not counting losses, we need a
4kVA transformer to handle this power level.

Instead of making a 8kV to 16kV tranformer capable of 4kVA, you might as
well just make a 4kVA 120v to 16kV transformer and skip the MOTs all
together. Unless you want a high impedance circuit to limit current, using
many transformers is not really useful.

I've not seen any 100% boost  boost tranformers, but you might be able to
get away with that using a core rated only half the 4kVA rating.

KEN


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Subject: high voltage doubling transformer


 > Original poster: "Justin Wright by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <justin-at-tracesofnut-dot-com>
 >
 > Hi All,
 >
 > Has anyone ever tried to make a transformer that just doubles high
 > voltage.
 >
 > For example, converting 8000v to 16000v.
 >
 > I was thinking about my 4 mot supply and wondered if this was a way to
 > get higher voltages without having to heavily ballast a 6 or 8 mot psu.
 >
 > My guess is that it would only have to handle 500ma or so.
 >
 >
 > Any comments?
 >
 >
 >
 > Regards
 >
 > Justin.
 >
 >
 >