I still haven't seen an example where this is actually done. In my application, I need a high voltage power supply in the kilovolt range that is portable (lightweight) and can run off DC batteries in the 30V range AND at the same time can put out hundreds of watts. The usual way of getting high voltage is to use a transformer and then perhaps use a CW doubler or tripler to ramp up the voltage. The problem is that transformer usually has a ferrite core and that makes it heavy. Ideally, I would want the power supply (exclusive of the battery) to weigh less than 1 gm for every 1 watt generated while producing kilovolts. I wanted to eliminate the transformer to save weight. So I thought I could use *many* stages in a CW alone to get the high voltage. However, the usual CW circuit is additive. So if I wanted 30,000V from 30V I would need 1,000 capacitors and associated diodes. Even using those flat disc capacitors, this would probably weigh more than just using a transformer. Therefore my question arose, is it possible instead to feed one CW multiplier into another *multiplying* the voltage with each repetition?
Bob Clark