wow great Marx generator, one of the best ive seen so far. is it possible to make a Marx Generator using a direct low voltage DC supply from a battery like 9 or 12 volts.
In 1965 I was at Keesler AFB, MS where we had a great amateur radio club with lots of surplus parts, test benches, etc. to play with. A lieutenant came back from an electronics class one day and rigged up the same circuit using oil-filled caps and Coke bottles for insulators. He dropped a screw into one of the gaps and kapow! I guess he learned his day's lesson well.
all the capacitors charge up to the same voltage because of the resistors, then when the first gap breaks down the voltage across the next is doubled causing it to break down and so on.
They look like "doorknob" caps. Very much desired by high voltage experimenters because of their HV rating, rugged construction and other high quality traits. I never have enough of them!
wow great Marx generator, one of the best ive seen so far. is it possible to make a Marx Generator using a direct low voltage DC supply from a battery like 9 or 12 volts.
thanks very much.
thedofrun 2 years ago
Cool, but personally i'd suggest a Cockroft-Walton, or CW multiplier.
holycrapapie 2 years ago
So cooll man...!!! sorry for this stupid question. For what that for ?? what is its funtions, aplications ?? etc!!!
thanks
gmondrax 2 years ago
so?!?!?!
settembreee 3 years ago
leuk gedaan ;)
Cappeltje 3 years ago
In 1965 I was at Keesler AFB, MS where we had a great amateur radio club with lots of surplus parts, test benches, etc. to play with. A lieutenant came back from an electronics class one day and rigged up the same circuit using oil-filled caps and Coke bottles for insulators. He dropped a screw into one of the gaps and kapow! I guess he learned his day's lesson well.
Your tax dollars at work.
CampKohler 3 years ago 5
what are the values of the caps and resistors?
CrashByron 3 years ago
touch it =D
weipeiwu2000 4 years ago 3
i wonder how they are made , not found to often , with that circuit dose that double voltage or something.
98209276 4 years ago
all the capacitors charge up to the same voltage because of the resistors, then when the first gap breaks down the voltage across the next is doubled causing it to break down and so on.
madscientist741 4 years ago
They look like "doorknob" caps. Very much desired by high voltage experimenters because of their HV rating, rugged construction and other high quality traits. I never have enough of them!
segarza 4 years ago
:) perhaps we are "splitting the positive" (hint)
bccritters 4 years ago
I appreciate the project vids.
Are those Ceramic Caps? (home made?)
balishnika 4 years ago