Hello,
I am designing an SMPS and wondered what the voltage stress would be on a transformer that was feeding a cockroft walton multiplier circuit? I have a high voltage output requirement but I want to have a transformer acting as galvanic isolation and achieve the high step-up using a cockroft walton circuit (or other voltage multiplier) instead, so that the voltage stress on the transformer is much smaller than the output voltage. Is this the case with the cockroft walton multiplier? If not, are there any other ways a low voltage stress can be imposed on an isolating transformer and the step up can be performed afterwards?
I am designing an SMPS and wondered what the voltage stress would be on a transformer that was feeding a cockroft walton multiplier circuit? I have a high voltage output requirement but I want to have a transformer acting as galvanic isolation and achieve the high step-up using a cockroft walton circuit (or other voltage multiplier) instead, so that the voltage stress on the transformer is much smaller than the output voltage. Is this the case with the cockroft walton multiplier? If not, are there any other ways a low voltage stress can be imposed on an isolating transformer and the step up can be performed afterwards?