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Re: cockcroft-walton question
Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <dhmccauley-at-spacecatlighting-dot-com>
No. Each stage sees approximately the same voltage so all the stage
components should be rated identically.
For example, if you plan to use a 12kV/30mA NST for your input power supply
and use one output only from the NST (6kVAC = 8.5kV peakV), your components
should be rated
for at least the input voltage on all stages.
You can read more about this on this page:
http://www.spacecatlighting-dot-com/hvsupply01.htm
The Captain
> Is the following a component-efficient way to implement a Cockcroft-Walton
> voltage multiplier... (all like components have equal ratings, more in
> series as you go up through the stages) ...?
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> AC in ---||--+----------+--||--||--||--+------------------+
> | | | |
> | | | |
> | | | v
> | | _ -
> | v ^ |
> | - | v
> _ | _ -
> ^ v ^ |
> | - | v
> | | _ -
> | | ^ |
> | | | v
> | | | -
> | | | |
> | | | |
> +--||--||--+--------------+--||--||--||--||--+----- HV out
> |
> |
> GND
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> thanks,
> Pete Lawrence.
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