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MasonJ1989
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx_generator
I chose the prefix to get an educated answer. I am not school educated but rather self taught, also instead of focusing primarily on electronics I have studied for the past several years the broader spectrum of electromagnetic phenomena including magnetism, electronics, light, etc.. and I have scoured forums, pdf, books, mathematical structures etc.. I have some questions about the above referred to link and schematics therein but not specifically from that site but in general reference to the Marx generator and my understanding of physics involved, I cannot find the answers and have come here for help.
1. If capacitor1 positive on the left is charged to source, say 4kv,which starts the cascade through the spark gap1 and current travels to capacitor2 negative and releases capacitor2 at which point the current being blocked by the capacitor2 will have 2 options. Travel through R1 or R2. Beyond R1 is ground and beyond R2 is more resistance. Current should go to ground, In this the current cannot add to any other current. What's happening here?
2. When current from capacitor1 discharges through gap1 and discharges capacitor2, capacitor2 had the same source charge so therefore should discharge at source voltage regardless of the charge on its negative plates. What's happening here?
3. I have looked around and some numbers were 4kv at 20mA as a charge source and P=IV.. I=v/r.. R=1m ohm that the power dissipated into any R should be 16 watts but the guy was using 2watt resistor.. What's happening here?
I risk feeling stupid but I feel that I'm missing something with this, please feed my brain.
I chose the prefix to get an educated answer. I am not school educated but rather self taught, also instead of focusing primarily on electronics I have studied for the past several years the broader spectrum of electromagnetic phenomena including magnetism, electronics, light, etc.. and I have scoured forums, pdf, books, mathematical structures etc.. I have some questions about the above referred to link and schematics therein but not specifically from that site but in general reference to the Marx generator and my understanding of physics involved, I cannot find the answers and have come here for help.
1. If capacitor1 positive on the left is charged to source, say 4kv,which starts the cascade through the spark gap1 and current travels to capacitor2 negative and releases capacitor2 at which point the current being blocked by the capacitor2 will have 2 options. Travel through R1 or R2. Beyond R1 is ground and beyond R2 is more resistance. Current should go to ground, In this the current cannot add to any other current. What's happening here?
2. When current from capacitor1 discharges through gap1 and discharges capacitor2, capacitor2 had the same source charge so therefore should discharge at source voltage regardless of the charge on its negative plates. What's happening here?
3. I have looked around and some numbers were 4kv at 20mA as a charge source and P=IV.. I=v/r.. R=1m ohm that the power dissipated into any R should be 16 watts but the guy was using 2watt resistor.. What's happening here?
I risk feeling stupid but I feel that I'm missing something with this, please feed my brain.