Raindrops creating electricity?...

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On Sunday, July 16, 2023 at 7:24:33 AM UTC-7, John Larkin wrote:

On Sun, 16 Jul 2023 13:08:14 +0100, \"Commander Kinsey\"
C...@nospam.com> wrote:

On Thu, 13 Jul 2023 15:54:56 +0100, John Larkin <jjla...@highlandtechnology.com> wrote:

Please sketch up a 5 volt power supply with a 400KV input.

Yes, fewer switcher chips are available at 50 volts. I\'m doing a bunch
of designs now with +48 in and chips are relatively rare and sometimes
weird.

But I specified 400 KV. Give it a shot.

A little coil?

Give it a shot.

Where exactly in the circuit do you perceive the problem?
Sketch up a 400 KV power supply, post it, and we can discuss.

The big \'uns will use 200mm wafer-size thyristors, banked in series and in parallel...
the only important 400kV \'power\' items are long-line power trunks. Maybe
a few Marx generators, but the last one of those I\'m aware of was disassembled
years ago.

For a small power output, just generate some corona in a bottle, and surround the
bottle with solar cells... neon fill will generate mainly red, that\'s good for silicon
cells.