So my good friend and mentor @Hypatia's Protege is out of touch for the whole week so I can't reach her to ask about this circuit she suggested. Sry about the poor quality of the schematic! I have upload restrictions so I just cropped this from a pic in one of Hp's posts and (finally) got it uploaded to this thread (I hope).
So plz consider just one of the doublers and see the signal source as an isolated LOPT secondary supplying a perfectly symmetrical 25 kvp sine wave. Also you can think of the link between the doublers as a hard ground. Ok, so my question is just that I'm wondering why Hp said it is greatly preferable to connect the outside lead from the LOPT to the left (diode side) and the inside lead to the right (capacitor side)? What difference can it make to an isolated winding? What would happen if it was connected the other way around?
Tnx for help and I want you all to know that Hp didn't assign this as a problem so I'm not cheating at homework!
I'll try to link a pic of the transformer (from Hp's blog) below the schematic so plz keep your fingers crossed
So here's the schematic
Here's the transformer. The outside lead reaches from the top of the winding to the plate cap and the inside lead comes out of the winding and connects to the solder lug to the right of the winding.
So plz consider just one of the doublers and see the signal source as an isolated LOPT secondary supplying a perfectly symmetrical 25 kvp sine wave. Also you can think of the link between the doublers as a hard ground. Ok, so my question is just that I'm wondering why Hp said it is greatly preferable to connect the outside lead from the LOPT to the left (diode side) and the inside lead to the right (capacitor side)? What difference can it make to an isolated winding? What would happen if it was connected the other way around?
Tnx for help and I want you all to know that Hp didn't assign this as a problem so I'm not cheating at homework!
I'll try to link a pic of the transformer (from Hp's blog) below the schematic so plz keep your fingers crossed
So here's the schematic
Here's the transformer. The outside lead reaches from the top of the winding to the plate cap and the inside lead comes out of the winding and connects to the solder lug to the right of the winding.
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