On Tue, 5 May 2009, Pierce Nichols wrote:

> Making high voltage DC from high voltage AC is not a great trick, as long as
> the frequency is not excessive. I've seen some high voltage diodes and caps
> during recent trips to Alphatronics.

Those CCFL inverters might be as high as 50KHz, so you'd probably want
fast HV diodes like the ones used in HV switching supplies.



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