Current output from Cockcroft Walton Voltage Multiplier

Jul 03, 2007 36 Replies

But you don't have to use an IC to get the effect. The idea is that when the H-bridge pulls low, it pulls the source of the high side FET low, and you can tie one end of a cap to that, and charge the cap through a diode from the supply that runs the gate drive of the low side FET. Then you have a supply (the charge on the cap) to drive the gate. This works even if the H bridge doesn't pull low very often, IF the gate drive switch doesn't discharge the cap with a significant DC current. A modern MOSFET will hold its gate charge for an incredibly long time, if there are no leakage paths.

Or were you wanting to actually use the voltage multiplier output to _control_ the gate?? That doesn't see like a very good way to do it, since then the gate must be pulled down by a resistor (or some overly complicated circuit) to turn the high side off.

Cheers, Tom

Right-- why not use a simple boost, or the tried-and-true:

. Vcc . -+- . Q1 | T1 BR1 . __ | ____ .-------. . |/ | )|| _| ~ + |------+---> FET Rail + 10v .--| |_____)||( | | | . |>. )||(_| ~ - |--. --- C1 . | _)|| '-------' | --- . --- | | | . GND | '---+---< from FET rail . |/ . --| Q2 . |>. . | . --- . GND

where Q1 and Q2 are driven from a suitable oscillator, and T1 is perhaps a SMT LAN transformer (a trick John and I share).

But then again, we lack the details.

Best, James Arthur

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Yep, LAN transformers are quite useful for things like this. I used one a few years ago in a little isolated power supply to deliver about half a watt as I recall, and did some studies about how to get the best efficiency I reasonably could. I recall that the optimal frequency was in the 5MHz to 10MHz range for the part I used. You can get them in a limited range of turns ratios, which is nice.

Cheers, Tom

about 160 mA in.

Bye. Jasen

Next time, one detail you should consider is the correct font for ASCII artworks.

F*ck off, retarded kook troll. Go be a retard, kook, and troll somewhere else.

Oh no ..he's not at it again is he? oh well..

Just select Options-->"Fixed font" in Google groups and it looks great. (But thanks for the spurious response!)

Cheers, James Arthur

10MHz, that's pretty fast! And half a watt is pretty cool too. Slick.

I bought a rail of 'em years ago with four independent windings, but never did actually put them to use. Not yet, that is. :^)

Cheers, James Arthur

ISDN transformers are cool for things like this, too, but would typically run in the 40-500 KHz range. We use a tiny 4-winding guy,

1:1:2:2, which has lots of possibilities.

Mouser and Digikey also have some nice little dual-winding toroids.

And there's always those photovoltaic optoisolator gadgets, if you don't need a lot of current. Somebody should make some meatier versions.

John

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