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wil3
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Hello. For a school project I am building a Cockroft-Walton voltage multiplier designed to be run on 120V conventional household current.
I am aware that the output is DC, but does the waveform have any peculiarities if I run the multiplier on sinusoidal AC? It seems like I would only get a linear output DC voltage if I fed it a square wave.
Also, what advantages are there to making a full wave circuit instead of half wave? My only objective is to make a really pretty spark, and I am curious what benefit the full wave version brings.
Thank you very much in advance.
I am aware that the output is DC, but does the waveform have any peculiarities if I run the multiplier on sinusoidal AC? It seems like I would only get a linear output DC voltage if I fed it a square wave.
Also, what advantages are there to making a full wave circuit instead of half wave? My only objective is to make a really pretty spark, and I am curious what benefit the full wave version brings.
Thank you very much in advance.