high voltage power supply

The power supply for this project forms electric arcs across two diverging stainless steel strips mounted in a protected case. The 16-inch long strips are mounted on insulating Teflon blocks to eliminate possible leakage. The stainless steel strips are angled with respect to each other so that the arcs form at the edges of the [...]

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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