Re: transformers

["Bernard G. Cleyet & Nancy Ann Seese" <georgeann@REDSHIFT.COM>]

You beat me to it!

Voltage doublers and triplers were very common -- even in early transformerless
TVs.  (They, of course, had flybacks, rf,  and if transformers.)

Didn't they use their accelerator to produce the first transmutation?  Also did
it precede VdG's?


bc

Ludwik Kowalski wrote:

> 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.