high voltage power supply

Figure 1 is a schematic diagram of our Miniature High-Voltage DC Generator. The circuit is fed from a 12-volt DC power supply. The input to the circuit is then amplified to provide a 10,000 volts DC output. That’s made possible by feeding the 12-volts output of the power supply to a DC-to-DC up converter. The [...]

The circuit in Figure 1 generates 100V from 25V. The circuit is a typical flyback regulator that uses a couple of well-established circuit techniques to handle the high voltage.
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