voltage multiplier

A tripler is a popular type of voltage multiplier.

In more modern designs, the rectifier is replaced by a voltage multiplier.

For example, voltage multipliers can be found in everyday items like televisions and photocopiers.

Earlier designs used a separate line output transformer and a well insulated high voltage multiplier unit.

Voltage doublers are a variety of voltage multiplier circuit.

The generator consists of four voltage multipliers (Marx generators), each one containing 24 capacitors.

Voltage multipliers, as the name implies, are circuits designed to multiply the input voltage.

Voltage multipliers have many applications.

Typically, voltage multipliers are composed of half-wave rectifiers, capacitors, and diodes.

It is made up of a voltage multiplier ladder network of capacitors and diodes to generate high voltages.

Toepler described also a symmetrical machine (1866) that is a sectorless machine and a similar device is used as a voltage multiplier.

In 1920, he generalized this idea to a cascaded voltage multiplier, and developed detection methods for charged particles (proportional counter, spark counter).

In modern displays, the LOPT, voltage multiplier and rectifier are often integrated into a single package on the main circuit board.

Other types of SMPSs use a capacitor-diode voltage multiplier instead of inductors and transformers.

A voltage multiplier may be formed of a cascade of voltage doublers of the cross-coupled switched capacitor type.

The most common type of voltage multiplier is the half-wave series multiplier, also called the Villard cascade (but actually invented by Heinrich Greinacher).

A variant of the principle is also used in electronic flash and bug zappers, though they rely on a capacitor-based voltage multiplier to achieve their high voltage.

Voltage multipliers can be used to generate a few volts for electronic appliances, to millions of volts for purposes such as high-energy physics experiments and lightning safety testing.

Using only capacitors and diodes, these voltage multipliers can step up relatively low voltages to extremely high values, while at the same time being far lighter and cheaper than transformers.

When driving for example a plasma lamp or a voltage multiplier the rectifying diode of the buck-boost converter is left out and the device is called a flyback transformer.

The electronic circuit is composed of an oscillator, a step-up transformer and a voltage multiplier, similar to the circuit in an electroshock weapon or taser, but with much lower power.