ac flyback + voltage multiplier for powering X-ray tube?

alf, Sat Jul 28 2012, 08:39AM

hi,

i recently had a closer look at a board from an old TV that i had, and noticed that it has an AC flyback and voltage multiplier (possibly tripler?) haha, unfortunately the whole flyback is covered in rubber so i cannot wind my own primary, but i can use its existing primary, by making an isolating transformer for the ZVS and connecting the fbt to the output of this (since the existing fbt primary is not center tapped, and probably not suitable, i cannot use it directly with the zvs), at 12V input to the zvs, the output of the multiplier is 25KV, however i have no way to measure HV AC but if the multiplier is a tripler, then the AC voltage will be around 8kV, so the thing is, could i use a 10 stage CW multiplier to boost this voltage to 80KV, and then use this to power an "xray tube" (aka 2X2A, see this link
i was thinking of using capacitors like these and diodes like these ,

do you think that the tiny amount of power that this could supply, together with corona losses and voltage drop across diodes, would be suitable for x-ray generation?

thanks in adv., alf.