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150 kV X-ray HV generator: cascade or transformer?

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John Myers
Tue Nov 18 2008, 05:09AM Print
John Myers Registered Member #1816 Joined: Tue Nov 18 2008, 04:56AM
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Hi,

every now and then, there are X-ray HV power supplys on eBay.

e.g.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&&item=280286240648

How do these work internally? Is that really some kind of capacitor/diode cascade, or is it a kind of resonant transformer?


-John
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Kizmo
Tue Nov 18 2008, 10:12AM
Kizmo Registered Member #599 Joined: Thu Mar 22 2007, 07:40PM
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AFAIK This kind of heavy unit is just 50/60Hz 150kV laminated steel core transformer with full wave rectifier and MAYBE small filter capacitor

EDIT: sigh, this unit is not like this. Maybe ferrite core HV transformer with diode/capacitor cascade
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LutzH
Tue Nov 18 2008, 08:50PM
LutzH Registered Member #1721 Joined: Sat Sept 27 2008, 08:44PM
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Hello:

Here is what you should find inside:

A ferrite / or very thin steel laminated HF high voltage transformer. This unit is known as an intermediate frequency unit, the trany could be either ferrite, or very thin steel. This transformer usualy has two secondary coils connected in series with the middle grounded. The two high voltage outputs from the transformer normaly feed two seperate voltage multiplier boards, one gives +75KV, and the other -75KV MAX to the X-ray tube HV sockets. Additionaly it will have 2 regular steel core, or ferrite core filment isolation transformers connected to the - HV cup. It will also normaly have a high voltage divider resistor network for HV monitoring.

The HV transformer can be used to feed a full wave VM real nice if you are interested in building a serious VM for 200-500KV easy. If you rewired the existing VM's it would be good for about 150KV + or - single output.

Hope this helps.......Lutz :)
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John Myers
Wed Nov 19 2008, 09:49PM
John Myers Registered Member #1816 Joined: Tue Nov 18 2008, 04:56AM
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Many thanks, Lutz!

This information is exactly what I wanted to know.
I've been wanting to build a multiplier, indeed.
With integrated multiplier boards, this is not 100% optimal, sadly..
But you could still set up a _really big_ marx generator...

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