Ok Ode Coyete. I've been on the board a while now and know your a man of his
word and gets things done. I sent joseph a copy of the basic circuit which i
found floating on the net but he could not make heads nor tales of it. Its
pritty simple to follow. Once the trippler is done just hook a current reg up
to it. I know all of will aprecitate you drawing the circuit properly up in a
shematic program and making it available for the faq. I'll send a copy of
this to the board, and one to you containing the attached ciruit. If you have
no luck can you write back so i can pass it onto someone else to draw up for
the group. Take care
damian
On Thursday 04 October 2001 06:42, Ode Coyote wrote:
> Count me in for the voltage tripler part
> Very interested
> Ken
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Title: DC CONVERTERS by Harry Lythall
DC CONVERTERS
by Harry Lythall -
SM0VPO
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The biggest problem I have with PSUs is that I am only really interested in
+13.8vDC. Unfortunately many projects and bits of homebrew stuff need higher
voltages, or +/- voltage supplies. Such projects are frequently dismissed for
this reason. Typical projects include Zener diode testers, OP-Amp circuits and
RF Power Amplifers that use 24 volts. Now all that is over. Here are a few
versions of the same theme to provide you with access to different voltage
levels using a "slack handfull" of common components. you can even build them
into your existing equipment if you need to modify for 12v operation.
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This is a basic circuit that oscillates at about 10KHz and drives a pair of
complementary transistors hard into conduction. This is then rectified and added
to the original +13.8vDC to give about +25 volts DC out. It will provide up to
100mA at 25v with the components shown. In effect the circuit is a DC supply
doubler. It is quite efficient since the output of the power oscillator is a
square-wave (the RMS value of a square-wave is equal to its peak value).
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The same circuit can be extended with another diode and capacitor to make a
supply trippler for up to 50mA. You can add to this as long as you like and is
an ideal way of generating up to about 100 volts for battery valve circuits. For
higher voltages then a transformer circuit is much more efficient since you
loose an extra 0.7v for every additional rectifier stage.
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Here we have removed the original supply addition diode and reversed the
rectifier so that the same circuit generates a negative voltage. using this
technique you can have +/- 12 volts for example, to power RS232 and OP-Amp
projects.
These circuits are all Ok for small projects, but what if you are a power
freak and want a few watts? No problem!
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Drive a couple of power transistors to get more current. Rx and Ry should be
small enough to allow the power transistors to push as much current as you want.
470 ohms would normally be about right for an output current of 1-ampere and
power transistors having an "hfe" of at least 50 or more. Again, the rectifier
circuit can be modified as previously shown to give the final voltage you want.
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Above we have the well known "Cockroft Ladder" which is a half-wave rectifier
and voltage multiplier.
- If the AC input were a SINE-WAVE of 12v (-12 to +12) then the outputs
would be 12v (x1), 36v (x3), 60v (x5), 84v (x 7) etc. as shown in the above
drawing.
- If the AC input were a SQUARE-WAVE of 12v (0 to +12 such as the output of
the above circuits) then the outputs would be 12v (x1), 24v (x2), 36v (x3),
48v (x4) etc. instead of those shown in the above drawing.
The rectifier diodes for all these circuits should be something like 1N4001
for up to 1-ampere or perhaps 1N5401 up to 3-amperes. The small signal
transistors can be any old common PNP and NPN transistor, such as 2N2222 etc.
The ripple frequency is very high so you do not need too much in the way of
smoothing. For even higher outputs then make up darlington power transistors
using something like 2N3053 and a 2N3055 (NPN) and 2N2953 and 2N2953 (PNP).
Using this technique it is quite easy to have +24 volts at 5-amperes (or more)
from a car battery which can enable you to use ex- millitary surplus equipment
or more efficient transmitting equipment mobile. The first time I began mucking
about with DC converters was to charge a +12v car batery from the -12v system in
my old Morris 1100 (Good grief! am I showing my age again?).
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