voltage dubblers with old surpluss parts
I have a question on voltage doublers and multistage devices as well, i have always used ceramic disc caps for these due to high input frequency. but now with the other thread on making flash lamps i am building a doubler that one of our great members pointed out as i cant find my 0-2kvdc supply, only and ac one and my glassman is temperamental at running a low voltage load as it's a 0-30kv, i had a concern that a slip of the knob with blow up a multi thousand dolor cap, so i cleaned up and restored a 70's era break down tester that is 0-1.5kac, and i can push it past to 2.3kvdc as for some reason was made to run on 100 volt main.
after my quick description of my stuff o wanted to upgrade the capacitance of the doubler from .2MFD per cap to 2mfd in hopes of a faster recharge of my main storage caps
The rating on the cap is 2mfd @4000 VDCW, these are non polarized so if i derate the voltage they should work great or that's my understanding of it, the derated voltage per cap should be 1,500. The diodes i am using came from microwaves and have so far done very well. my current doubler only charges the main system at 1ma and these diodes are .800-1.2 amps.
Does this all sound as a workable solution?
The main power supply's current is at least 333ma, when i was a whelp we use it to set scrap electronics on fire
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