how does an x-ray power supply work? don't they generate similar voltages?
what about this 60kv unit:
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From the website:
variety of high energy & fascinating experiments such as homemade X-ray tubes
Totally irresponsible. Nice way to kill/mutate yourself, ever hear of marie currie.
Top Xray supplies can pump out up to 150KV, dental units up to 70 KV
Old mamo units ran at around 40 KV (self rectifying tube), the newer mammos, when i left a few years ago, up to 70KV.
Average xray supply would max at 150 KV @ 60 -70 KW the biggies were 125KW
The big ones were 380-440 three phase input with a dual secondary windings of 75 kv each applied across the x-ray tube. (A fancy diode with a motor in it.)
The motor is to rotate the anode to dissipate the heat. 99% of energy applied to tube is lost to heat.
The cables from tank to tube were 3/4 inch thick with three 18 guage wires in the center.
The transfo's with big heavy and immersed in high voltage tanks full of oil along with diode sticks, bleeder networks, Filament tranfos and switching mechanism. ( most xray rooms contain two tubes that are supplied by one tank.)
The smaller units such as dental and mammography have combination tube, transfos and rectifiers mounted in a sealed oil filled unit called a tubehead. This eliminates the special Hv cables.
The later units reduced the tranfo size and cost by going high frequency.
Instead of 50-60hz, 30K to 50kHz. This provided little ripple, which was desirable as applied tube voltage represented the xray penetration "quality"..
The tanks, oil etc are still neccessary, although the weight of the tanks went to a couple hundred pounds down from several hundreds of pounds.
However these would be overkill, dangerous and toxic for your use..
We also had IA (image amplifier) tubes somewhat similar to an picture tube working in reverse. They used special sealed tranfo and were jack up to 30KV plus by a cascade of voltage doublers in sealed black blocks.
This may be more to what you may need.
cheers