A recent quest for power (DC power for a stompbox, that is) led me to all sorts of info on voltage multipliers and I thought I'd share the results here.
Voltage multipliers in general:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltage_multiplier
Cockroft-Walton on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockcroft-Walton_generator
Lots of different ways of connecting the parts shown here:
http://www.techlib.com/files/voltmult.pdf
Neat-o little Javascript calculator:
http://www.cosmicrays.org/muon-cockroft ... lation.php
I still don't understand all the subtleties, but I find this stuff fascinating so hopefully others here will also.
Voltage multiplier info (Cockroft-Walton especially)
- earthtonesaudio
- Transistor Tuner
rocklander wrote:hairsplitting and semantics aren't exactly the same thing though.. we may need two contests for that.