Capacitor as voltage rise potential

[madhatter106]

I was thinking about the function of a capacitor on a very basic level, and it occurred to me that the capacitor also resembles the high voltage electrostatic generator. There is the std LC circuit but that behaves as an AC signal. A capacitor will not build its charge without some potential difference occurring on it as the static generators do thru mechanical motion.

It would seem then that you could setup a cascade of capacitors and diodes to increase the voltage potential and maintain a dc signal, right?

 

[madhatter106]

ah figured it out, old hat. CW generator, thought it sounded familiar..