marx generator

[Souper man]

I have been searching the web but to no avail. I am looking for a quick and dirty marx generator schematic with the voltage supply, and also i am looking for a site that has the uber high voltage rating caps. thx for helping if you have any help at all

 

[mneary]

Did you try Google?

 

[things]

try this site he has made a quick & dirty marx generator out of resistors, caps and high voltage supply.

www.electricstuff.co.uk/marxgen.htm

 

[Souper man]

yes i did try googler

 

[Souper man]

I am having trouble understanding some of the symbols and the schematic, can you help me?

aka the power supply and the left part

Also, where can get this stuff!

 

[things]

basically all it is is capacitors, restistors, spark gaps and a high voltage supply eg;ignition coil, flyback, nst,etc

--||-- are caps 4.7nF 4KV --|__|-- are 1 megaohm resistors
---0 0--- are spark gaps. and the component on the left is not really necessary but makes it fire more reliably

 

[bananasiong]

wow, is the marx dangerous?

 

[things]

i don't really know but i guess it depends on input

 

[Sceadwian]

For single pulse, no not really, will cause more superficial tissue damange from vaporization at the entrance than it will do from sustain current through the body. A high voltage generator like this is by it's own design not capable of devliering a terminal current over any length of time. It's basically a multi stage switched capacitor array. The spark gaps just make it 'elegent' in that it doesn't need high voltage SCR's to trigger.

 

[things]

many electronic stores have high voltage caps. try this.**broken link removed**

they are not exactly the same but i think they would work.
what high voltage supply are you inteding to run it off eg; nst, ignition coil, flyback?