[Milsurplus] [ARC5] Homebrew choke

[Hubert Miller]

As long has you have a power transformer, where you don't need to have one leg of the AC grounded, you are best off with a fullwave voltage doubler,
not a halfwave voltage doubler. 
IIR now, the microwave ovens with the heavy power transformer ( not RF HV supply ) have one side of the HV AC transformer connected to the transformer
frame, so they use the series-cap halfwave doubler. But there's no need to care about ripple in the DC HV there.
-H


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But because each capacitor in such a circuit is charged only on alternate half-cycles, with the other supplying the full load, the regulation, and hum, is going to be a lot poorer than it is in the full-wave bridge circuit
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According to my ARRL Handbooks, the output waveform from a voltage doubler looks the same as the output waveform from bridge or center-tapped fullwave rectifiers.

Wayne
WB4OGM