Low voltage Marx generator?

[Barry Jones]

Someone asked a question about a Marx generator, which I had never heard
of. I found the following site:

<http://homepage.ntlworld.com/electricstuff/marxgen.htm>

and I started wondering if this could act as a DC-DC boost circuit, by
replacing the spark gaps with diodes.

Is this possible?

Meandering minds want to know!

--
Barry

 

[John Larkin]

On Tue, 03 May 2005 19:08:38 -0400, Barry Jones <bjones01@acm.org>
wrote:

Someone asked a question about a Marx generator, which I had never heard
of. I found the following site:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/electricstuff/marxgen.htm

and I started wondering if this could act as a DC-DC boost circuit, by
replacing the spark gaps with diodes.

Is this possible?

Meandering minds want to know!

A Marx won't work with regular diodes. But look up Cockroft Walton
Voltage Multipliers, like this f'rinstance:

http://home.earthlink.net/~jimlux/hv/cw1.htm

John

 

[Barry Jones]

John Larkin wrote:

On Tue, 03 May 2005 19:08:38 -0400, Barry Jones <bjones01@acm.org
wrote:



Someone asked a question about a Marx generator, which I had never heard
of. I found the following site:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/electricstuff/marxgen.htm

and I started wondering if this could act as a DC-DC boost circuit, by
replacing the spark gaps with diodes.

Is this possible?

Meandering minds want to know!



A Marx won't work with regular diodes. But look up Cockroft Walton
Voltage Multipliers, like this f'rinstance:

http://home.earthlink.net/~jimlux/hv/cw1.htm

John


Neat! I like the 'full wave version'. Very clever.

--
Barry