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American High Voltage Power Supply

American High Voltage is the worlds premier manufacturer of high
reliability high voltage & low voltage power supply. Since 1978,
American High Voltage has been the leading designer and
manufacturer of custom designed high voltage power supplies, military
power supplies, high temperature power supplies, DC converters and
other commercial high voltage power supplies. American High Voltage
offers a wide range of high voltage power supply that spans from 100V
up to 250kV with powers from 1W up to 1kW.

Phone (775) 777-0992

Fax (775) 777-3631
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Using Parallel Multipliers for
100kV Downhole Neutron Tube
Power Supplies

Operating 100kV downhole

neutron tube power supplies at
temperatures above 150 C
yield low operating efficiency
due to excessive diode
leakage in the series Cockroft
- Walton multipliers typically
used. Such circuits are usually
limited to less than twelve
stages due to N3 voltage
regulation effects resulting in

immoderate potentials across

the switching rectifiers. This
paper discusses the merits of
using parallel multipliers with
30 stages or more to achieve
higher conversion efficiencies
at elevated temperatures in
tools with 1.3 inch (32mm)
diameters. By minimizing the
per-stage voltage, definite
improvements are realized due
to reductions in reverse
current leakage per device.
Efficiencies of up to 50% may
be achieved at 175 C
operating temperature by this
technique. In addition, ripple
voltages present on the output
are not a function of the
number of multiplying stages
in parallel designs. More

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