Re: cockcroft-walton question

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Original poster: "Ed Phillips by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <evp-at-pacbell-dot-net>

A couple of notes on the subject.  First of all, since all of the
charge for the capacitors "down the line" has to pass through the first
one on each cycle, the voltage drop across it will be much greater.  So
on down the string.  Ideal design would be to have the capacitance N
times the last one, where N is the number of stages remaining.

	Second is that, when operating with a transformer with high leakage
ractance, the exact description of an NST, you can get resonant charging
in a way similar to a TC, causing excess voltage and failure.  If you
use very large or very small capacitors you're OK, but as you approach
the resonant or "matched" capacitance you can be in serious trouble.

Ed