High Voltage Feedback Loop

I have no idea if this works in real life but I just kind of randomly thought of it and it doesn’t work in the simulation either. Here’s how I think it would work: There’s no particular reason I chose 60 hz for this but whatever. Anyway let’s also assume the voltage is 10 volts to make explaining this simple. The 10 volts goes through the first transformer (1:1000 ratio) and gets stepped up to 10,000 volts. After that the 10,000 volts goes over to the next transformer (1:1 ratio) and goes back into the primary circuit. It then goes through the first transformer again and gets stepped up to 10 million volts, which the goes through the next transformer and goes back into the first transformer and get stepped up AGAIN. In theory this should just keep on looping and raising the voltage over and over again, making insanely high voltages. Oh and by the way, to prevent the secondary coil of the 1:1 transformer from acting like a short circuit for the original voltage source it might make sense to have it be higher inductance than the primary of the 1:1000 transformer so that the current goes to the first transformer because of the lower impedance. A spark gap could work too so that only the high voltage coming from the transformers could pass through. If this concept actually does work it probably wouldn’t be very applicable because I really don’t see any way you could cap the voltage and stop it from rising. Also the transformer windings would probably arc over to each other at some point. I also think that at some point the voltage would sort of just cap itself but I don’t really know. If that’s true, than you could use a lower turns ratio (like 1:5) so that the voltage would cap itself at a lower point. But like I said I really have no idea how this would turn out in real life. Let me know what you think.

published 2 years ago