Voltage Multiplier

[Hemisaurus]

Hey Nick, your chance to outgeek me I'm too tired to think, in a voltage multiplier, do the caps need to be rated for the total voltage, the voltage of that stage, or the starting voltage?



So if left to right is C1, C2 & C3, and the starting voltage is 120V

Is it

A) C1, C2 & C3 all have to be 120V
B) C1, C2 & C3 all have to be 360V
C) C1 is 120V, C2 is 240V, C3 is 360V

[RAGER]

Thinking like DC batteries i would say all have to be 360v but I'm prolly wrong

[dunwichamps]

C1: 120
C2,C3 240

Those are minimums, I would't run the circuit at those minimums tho, probably 360 all around

[Hemisaurus]

Dandy,  I have 400V's 

[dunwichamps]

Dandy,  I have 400V's 

good man, if you had a spike on your primary side then you would be covered since ur almost 2 x minimum.