Why even add diodes? Why the resin? The high voltage makes it a/c current, is the diode just making it a powerful one way gate? What values were those diodes?
Yes its a capacitor, and its style is called a "doorknob" capacitor. They are mainly high and very high voltage. I would very much like to own one like one of his, and preferably acquire it by coming across it in some scrapped electronics. It would be like xmas and bday and easter and losing multiple teeth and summer school holidays all at once.
@@jonlitchfield8888 Really? I thought the diodes were creating the stepped up voltage. So your thinking it's a common surplus stun gun power supply and those tend to run from batteries which would make this a DC to DC booster circuit design. Most multistage voltage doubler circuits featuring diodes require a capacitor in each stage and this ladder has none. The power supply does look like it has some sort of flyback transformer which would require either an AC input or a PWM input.
The only thing I would add are balancing resistors across each diode. Something in the 100 meg range per diode.
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Why even add diodes? Why the resin? The high voltage makes it a/c current, is the diode just making it a powerful one way gate? What values were those diodes?
What's the input voltage source and what's the round gray colored thing on the right?
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Yes its a capacitor, and its style is called a "doorknob" capacitor. They are mainly high and very high voltage. I would very much like to own one like one of his, and preferably acquire it by coming across it in some scrapped electronics. It would be like xmas and bday and easter and losing multiple teeth and summer school holidays all at once.
Voltage is from a common (ali, ebay, etc) little high voltage unit, available for usually a few dollars. They output in the range of 10-20 kV i think.
@@jonlitchfield8888 Really? I thought the diodes were creating the stepped up voltage. So your thinking it's a common surplus stun gun power supply and those tend to run from batteries which would make this a DC to DC booster circuit design.
Most multistage voltage doubler circuits featuring diodes require a capacitor in each stage and this ladder has none.
The power supply does look like it has some sort of flyback transformer which would require either an AC input or a PWM input.