My next project, I plan, testing jobs is probably a big cascade. Aim would be to achieve an output voltage of 100kV with a current of approx. 10 to 20 Ma. Feed I want it with one (or two) transducers. I know the 50 Hz of the inverter are not quite perfect, but it still excites me. Has one of you out there have experience with this material?
Found a very interesting site, which has led me to:
Edit: Actually I want to build just a stripped-down version of the cascade shown on the page... everything is Farge of the money and the effort namely ne. Figured, to build the whole thing with each MMC's and Diodenstacks from 1N4007 diode. Would a giant soldering work and wait, like I said, pretty expensive.
What do you mean? Worth electrical testing equipment a such (expensive) project? Let's assume, that you fed the Cascade with 10kV. Then you should have 10 levels. The problem is that is not so easy in a cascade. There are too many steps, a very large voltage drops. So at 10 levels for example that most late 90 kV come out. About purely theoretical. Then you should have more levels to compensate for that. The more levels you but you, the more voltage on the whole seen drops. So you can do it not great. At best, it would be if you'd turn 4 TV-cascades in a row. About to read in: "The large high voltage and high frequency experimental manual" page 74 and 80-84.
