Recent content by poekrel

im working on a project that is using a parallel capacitor bank made of four 400V 6300uf caps. I am going to use a 120V outlet as the power source and my problem and question are this: as it is, according to pspice, it will take roughly forever for the bank to reach its 400V from the CW...

so I've talked to a few professors at my college and several suggested that instead of trying to step up the voltage from a battery pack that i might consider using a 120v wall adapter as my source voltage.it would limit its mobility but if it makes the circuitry significantly easier and...

I'm just starting a project that I've been thinking about for quite some time. i would like to make a coil gun. my question is this: what would be the best method of multiplying the voltage from, say, two 9V batteries up to an amount fit for charging four 400V 6300uf capacitors. i don't want...