mstechca, do you know what an inverter is? its input is 12VDC and its output is 120VAC at 50Hz, thus the oscillator. Although, in reality, as audioguru has said, its output would instead just be smoke :lol:
sorry, I wasn't thinking of a "power inverter" at the time. I was thinking of a NOT gate :lol:
But still, I can see that circuit configuration is just not the configuration I would use.
Have you checked Harry's Homebrew pages? He has a bunch of circuits (I think under the PSU section) that show you how to get a higher voltage from a low voltage, but the higher voltage is probably DC.
I know (according to Harry's homebrew pages) that you can get a higher voltage by making an oscillator that creates it.
But the simplest way to make a higher voltage is to use a chain of diodes and capacitors in a ladderish circuit fashion. I'm not sure if it is called Cockroft Walton ladder or the Johnson Ladder.
Sorry, but I don't know many people's names.