high voltage low current supply circuit diagram


Posted on Feb 5, 2014

Ahigh voltage power supply is a very useful source which can be effectively used in many applications like biasing of gas-discharge tubes and radiation detectors etc. Such a power supply could also be used for protection of property by electric charging of fences. Here the current requirement is of the order of a few microamps. In such an applicat


high voltage low current supply circuit diagram
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ion, high voltage would essentially exist between a live wire and ground. When this live wire is touched, the discharge occurs via body resistance and it gives a non-lethal but deterrent shock to an intruder. The circuit is built around a single transistorised blocking oscillator. An important element in this circuit is the transformer. It can be fabricated on easily available ferrite cores. Two E sections of the core are joined face-to-face after the enamelled copper wire wound on former is placed in it. The details of the transformer windings are given in the Table. In this configuration, the primary winding and the feedback winding are arranged such that a sustaining oscillation is ensured once the supply is switched on. The waveform s duty cycle is asymmetrical, but it is not very important in this application. Please note that if the oscillations do not occur at the switch-on time, the transformer winding terminals of the feedback or the primary winding (but not both) should be reversed. The primary oscillation amplitude is about 24V(p-p). This gets amplified with the large step-up ratio of the transformer and we get about 800V(p-p) across the secondary. A simple series voltage multiplier (known as Cockroft-Walton circuit) is used to boost up this voltage in steps to give a final DC of about 2 kV. The output voltage, however, is not very well regulated. But if there is a constant load, the final voltage can be adjusted...




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