I'd like to build a electric fish shocker. I've checked and they ARE legal in my area, Eastern, NC, USA. Does anyone have plans or site that has plans? The rules are I cannot go over 300 Volts output going by the local fishing regulations.
You could use a type of DC to DC step up converter circuit using an audio transformer and a Mosfet to switch it at the right frequency, then you could run the output of the transformer through a rectifier and some diodes (1N4007's or similar) and caps, rated at around 250 to 300 volts, set up multiple stages of the voltage doubler until you get the desired output....I was thinking along the lines of a 12VDC batery charged by a hand cranked generator, running some kind of invertor from the battery stepping the voltage up to 300VDC, do you think 300VAC would work better? I'm wondering if I used a transformer to step A/C voltage up from a 120VAC output inverter to 360VAC or 480VAC and then use a diode to rectify it to VDC would work, that would only give me roughly 1/2 of the VAC, that would put me around 180VDC-240VDC, am I right?
That's a good question.Since the spirit of this regulation was based on a crank device, it also begs this question.. Is the 300V limit, RMS or Peak?
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by Jake Hertz
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