Re: High Voltage Probe Instability

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Original poster: "Peter Terren" <pterren@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

If you are reading DC output, it may represent full charging of the 
multiplier.  If AC then possibly heating in the divider or even the variac. 
It is after all only 5%.
Cheers
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> Original poster: "David Rieben" <drieben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> .... but the problem that I
> am having is that the high output voltage measured through the
> HV probe keeps slowly but steadily climbing while the input re-
> mains relatively constant. For instance, with an 80 volt input,
> the HV output initially reads around 28,400 volts but after around
> 10 minutes of constant measurement, the HV output has crept
> up past 30,000 volts, at least according to my HV probe/DVM
> combo.....