Dr_Doggy
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Hi, I have a black box load that responds similar to that of a spark gap, as in sometimes it has high resistance and sometimes low resistance. I am trying to design a circuit that will auto compensate for these resistances and still provide max current.
Previously i was using my variac and a neon sign transformer, and i have been getting interesting results when manually tuning voltages, but I blew out my secondary coil on neon transformer when i tried to add a rectifier circuit to it, im not sure why it did that, but have a few guesses.
RIP neon sign transformer.
A brief description is that im going to take a MOT transformer(2kv, 2kw on output), attach it to a diode triple circuit to step it up to 6kv, then use a marx generator to ramp it up the rest of the way.. The clever part is at each stage(or every few stages) of the marx spark gaps, i am going to add some diodes so that when my load is conducting it will draw current from the lower end voltages causing ideal(more) current at the output. In the event that my load has a high resistance the marx will ramp up to the next stages.
Here is my idea of how to design and how this design would work, I would like a proof reading, and ideas to make this circuit work & safely....
(sorry for the messy tripler circuit) Also pls verify that Im rating values properly!
thnx!
Previously i was using my variac and a neon sign transformer, and i have been getting interesting results when manually tuning voltages, but I blew out my secondary coil on neon transformer when i tried to add a rectifier circuit to it, im not sure why it did that, but have a few guesses.
RIP neon sign transformer.
A brief description is that im going to take a MOT transformer(2kv, 2kw on output), attach it to a diode triple circuit to step it up to 6kv, then use a marx generator to ramp it up the rest of the way.. The clever part is at each stage(or every few stages) of the marx spark gaps, i am going to add some diodes so that when my load is conducting it will draw current from the lower end voltages causing ideal(more) current at the output. In the event that my load has a high resistance the marx will ramp up to the next stages.
Here is my idea of how to design and how this design would work, I would like a proof reading, and ideas to make this circuit work & safely....
(sorry for the messy tripler circuit) Also pls verify that Im rating values properly!
thnx!
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