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Re: transformers

Michael Edmiston wrote:

Suppose you had sufficient transistors acting as switches
and oscillators to do the following... (1) Charge two capacitors
in parallel from a 5V supply. (2) Disconnect these from the
supply and reconnect them in series... voila...10V. Hook
these to another capacitor to charge it up to some voltage.
(3) Go back to step one, and repeat this over and over. The
final capacitor will charge to near 10V. This is sometimes
called a "flying capacitor" circuit.

This was the idea used by Cockcroft and Walton in 1930 to
get ~1,000,000 Volts for the first nuclear accelerator.