Voltage multiplier: Generating over 100,000 volts DC

Easy to understand 3D animation showing how high voltage ladders create extremely high DC voltages using just diodes and capacitors.

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I love how you use the height difference to visually represent the electrical potential. Beautifully presented!

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I feel that if mechanical engineers understood electricity in mechanical terms (in the way your videos demonstrate) they could create some very interesting circuits. This is an example of that. It is basically a magnification mechanism in electric form.

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I've commented on a few of your videos now, but your animations have revolutionised the way I visualise voltage and current. Thank you.

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I ran across this by chance. That has the be the most elegant way to illustrate voltage multiplication by rectification through capacitance I have ever seen. Very well done. Subbed!

[@EugeneKhutoryansky]

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Great, thanks for the effort on the video, maybe in the description and for the next video audio you can clarify the direction of current you describe for the diode is conventional and not electron. This is extremely important for someone learning about current.

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Out of the dozen or so videos on this circuit I've seen, this one has helped me visualize and therefore understand it, the most.

[@EugeneKhutoryansky]

Thanks. I am glad my video was helpful.

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Very neat way of visualizing voltage using vertical height. It makes it very intuitive like a head of water in a dam producing pressure.

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Genius! I've built a few of these before and I wanted a quick refresher to remind myself of how the voltages gradually stepped up. Perfect explanation.

[@EugeneKhutoryansky]

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[@EugeneKhutoryansky]

+Julio Becker , thanks.

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[@EugeneKhutoryansky]

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Beautiful!!! I can visualize current flows on the circuit and finally understand the principle of operation, thanks!!!

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[@EugeneKhutoryansky]

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Great video, I would love you to include the most common uses for that technology as well

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What wonderful video! It's non easy to understand how a voltage doubler really works, because there are many factors acting together (alternate current, capacitor charging and discharging and so on). Therefore it's difficult to understand what it's really happening , just figuring it out by mind. A beatiful demonstration of an image which is worth a 1000 words.

[@EugeneKhutoryansky]

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Thank you. I work with equipment that generates up to 20kV and this has helped me understand the process better.

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I have my High Voltage Engineering Exam tomorrow, at this is by far the best explanation ever. 🔥🔥 Wish my professors had shown this instead of wasting time.

[@EugeneKhutoryansky]

Good luck with your exam. Thanks for the compliment about my explanation.

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Very good video. Had to watch a few times to fully appreciate it. There are lots of confusing videos on youtube about voltage doublers. Makes me wonder how many people really understand whats going on.

[@EugeneKhutoryansky]

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[@EugeneKhutoryansky]

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This is a genius method for generating extremely high voltages! As always, I enjoyed the step-by-step explanation, and I look forward to watching the next set of videos. :)

[@EugeneKhutoryansky]

Thanks for the compliments.

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@@protoborg Well, that hurts... 😢 (After such an intuitive explanation, _this_ is what I wake up to? I'm not sure if the reply above is completely factual, but the feeling still stings...)

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[@EugeneKhutoryansky]

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We learned the basics, and then applied them to stuff like this, break it down to the simplest first. DC series, parallel, RC time constant, ohms law, voltage drops, kirchoffs laws..etc, then AC, power factor, transformers, impedance, capacitors and inductors in series parallel and how frequency affects each circuit, digital logic, semiconductors, fets, diodes, transistors, op amps. throw in some thevinins, and other fun stuff. I took the electronics course, with some AC power distribution basics, and computers added on. They made it very basic at first then built on it.

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[@EugeneKhutoryansky]

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[@EugeneKhutoryansky]

+Magnus Nilsen, thanks. I am glad you liked my video, and yes, I plan to cover more topics about electric components. Thanks.

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Thanks! Very clear and interesting. One question: you assume that the diodes operate at 0V forward voltage? otherwise, no current will flow through D2 when its cathod voltage is greater than its anode voltage

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[@beatlessteve1010]

The diode conducting ( forward biased) will have the same voltage on both sides minus .7v ...each diode usually has a 7/10 of 1 volt drop.

[@ghostie5730]

Great video, it really explains the multiplier well. What ar the specs for the diodes and capacitors.

[@EugeneKhutoryansky]

+Timothy Mwansa, thanks for the compliment on the video. The voltage ratings of the diodes and capacitors doesn't have to be high, as each diode and each capacitor only sees the voltage difference of a single stage of the circuit. A bigger concern, as the voltage gets extremely high, is that you will have arcs through the air. Also, these arcs will generate lots of X-rays, which are bad for people's health.

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+Physics Videos by Eugene Khutoryansky what would be economically the best spec of the each diodes and capacitors, if you wanna generate 800 KV DC? wanna build one!

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Poor C1 seems to be getting a workout today : ( and I'm starting to think C2 is made out of a hot air balloon and not some sort of metal! Thank you for the videos!

[@EugeneKhutoryansky]

+MrEstrax Glad you like my videos. Thanks.

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[@EugeneKhutoryansky]

+snuffles1101, thanks for the compliment on my videos. In reply to your question, no I am not a student.

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Thank you for this great video. You explain everything so well. I have watched all of your videos and they are amazing. Can you please make a video on diode, BJT and MOSFET. Thank you.

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Great video as usual Eugene ! However pay attention that no charges flow into a capacitor. Also love the way you conceptualize the potentials :)

[@EugeneKhutoryansky]

+Youness Fouqani, yes and no. Charges don't flow "through" a capacitor, but charges will flow in at one end, and flow out of the other end. I will be coming out with a video dedicated to capacitors in the near future. And thanks for the compliment about my video.

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