this shows how to generate High Voltage Dc from low input Ac a complex circuit may comprise of 8 stage Voltage Multiplier followed by a Voltage Doubler Circuit
3. Project overview
This project describes the design and
implementations from a single phase ac to high
voltage DC power supply till 10kVoutput.
The implementation of the hardware work to
build a high voltage DC power supply is meant
for use in the laboratory.
The designed DC power supply can be used in
industrial applications also.
The design of the circuit involves voltage doubler,
whose principle is to double the output voltage.
The output from the voltage doubler is given to a
series of cascaded circuit that generates up to
10KV but for the student project it is advisable to
go up to 2KV for safety reasons.
5. Capacitor
A basic capacitor has
two parallel plates
separated by an
insulating material
A capacitor stores an
electrical charge
between the two plates
The unit of capacitance
is Farads (F)
6. Storing a charge between the plates
Electrons on the left plate
are attracted toward the
positive terminal of the
voltage source
This leaves an excess of
positively charged holes
The electrons are pushed
toward the right plate
Excess electrons leave a
negative charge
+ -
+
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8. Working of project
This project uses voltage multiplier circuit in multistage
using a no of silicon diodes (D1-D8) and a set of
electrolytic capacitors of 2 no’s of 100mf/400V connected
in series.
Thus 16 capacitor of 100mf/400V are used for 8 stage
voltage multiplication.
Thus if the input is 230v rms the output will be
approximately [sqrt 2 x 230 x 8 = appx 2.5kv].
In order to measure this voltage a potential divider
arrangement comprising of 10resistors in series is made
such that the voltage across 1 resistor is 2.5/10=250V,
Which can be easily read by any standard meter to indicate
that the full voltage is approximately 2.5kV.
500k resistors are connected across each pair of capacitors
to discharge them automatically after use, it will prevent
from high voltage electric shock.