Development of battery powered 100kV dc power supply

The increased interest in pulsed power field applications has generated the need for development of compact and remotely operated chargers driven by rechargeable batteries. With this objective, a compact and portable dc to dc Converter has been developed which has an output rating of 100kV, 0.4mA. The high voltage generation scheme uses a hybrid approach. The overall idea behind implementation of hybrid concept is to optimize voltage upliftment with suitable techniques for maximizing power delivered per unit volume. The proposed converter provides this feature and uses flyback converter in association with Cockcroft-Walton Multiplier [M. Jullian, Cockcroft-Walton Multiplier Optimum Design Guide V2.0, August 2005 (http//www.blazelabes.com)] for the generation of 100kV dc from 12V dc source, i.e., normal battery. In the first stage 12V dc is modulated/chopped into series of high frequency pulses by pulse width modulator and then increased in level up to 16kVpp by step up flyback transformer. Further by usin...