Hello,
I'm building a high voltage power supply for my Ion thruster project (DC Ionic wind generator) based on the needle-to-cylinder structure below and I'm having trouble understanding the Voltage Multiplier.
I'm needing this HV circuit only for long duration corona discharge in order to create Ion wind.
If you have a better circuit for this purpose, please suggest me, I'm in a very urgent situation and desperately needing your help!
And I'm using this Flyback driver + Full wave voltage quadrupler combination circuit
The multiplier sparks it getting weaker than normal when I tested it in needle - cylinder structure (I mainly used it for corona discharge). The other time I connect the circuit with a bigger needle - cylinder structure and it generates much stronger Ion wind but then suddenly stop after operating in less than 5 sec, the multiplier has just burned out. And sometimes it just stopped working and gives louder "zzz" sound, I then have to unplug and then replugged it again. I only have a few fundamental about power electronic but the Multiplier behavior is too much for me to predict.
For my multiplier I'm using:
Input voltage (from flyback transformer) around 10-20Kv
High voltage diode: TL74A 20kV 5mA
High voltage cap: 101 25Kv
I'm building a high voltage power supply for my Ion thruster project (DC Ionic wind generator) based on the needle-to-cylinder structure below and I'm having trouble understanding the Voltage Multiplier.
I'm needing this HV circuit only for long duration corona discharge in order to create Ion wind.
If you have a better circuit for this purpose, please suggest me, I'm in a very urgent situation and desperately needing your help!
And I'm using this Flyback driver + Full wave voltage quadrupler combination circuit
The multiplier sparks it getting weaker than normal when I tested it in needle - cylinder structure (I mainly used it for corona discharge). The other time I connect the circuit with a bigger needle - cylinder structure and it generates much stronger Ion wind but then suddenly stop after operating in less than 5 sec, the multiplier has just burned out. And sometimes it just stopped working and gives louder "zzz" sound, I then have to unplug and then replugged it again. I only have a few fundamental about power electronic but the Multiplier behavior is too much for me to predict.
For my multiplier I'm using:
Input voltage (from flyback transformer) around 10-20Kv
High voltage diode: TL74A 20kV 5mA
High voltage cap: 101 25Kv
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