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1. AC voltage generators
2. DC voltage generators
3. Impulse voltage generators
AC voltage generators
1.CASCADE TRANSFORMERS
When test voltage requirements are >300kv, a single transformer can be
used for test purposes. For higher voltage requirements,
- A single unit construction becomes difficult and costly due to insulation
problems.
- Transportation and assembly of large transformers become difficult.
These drawbacks are overcome by a series connection (or cascading) of
several identical units of transformers, in which the high voltage windings
of all the units are in series.
2.TESLA COILS
Used to generate high frequency a.c high voltage, also known as high
frequency resonant transformers.
High frequency a.c high voltages are required for rectifier d.c power supplies
and testing electrical apparatus for switching surges.
The absence of iron core in transformers and hence saving in cost and
size
Pure sine wave output
Slow build-up of voltage over a few cycles and hence no damage due to
switching surges
Uniform distribution of voltage across the winding coils due to subdivision
of coil stack into a number of units
accelerator in the 1930s until the cyclotron was developed. Today it is still
used as an accelerator to generate energetic particle and x-ray beams in fields
such as nuclear medicine. In order to double the voltage, two generators are
often used together, one generating positive and the other negative potential;
this is called a tandem Van de Graaff accelerator. For example, the
Brookhaven National Laboratory Tandem Van de Graaff achieves about 30
million volts of potential difference.
The voltage produced by an open-air Van de Graaff machine is limited by
arcing and corona discharge to about 5 megavolts. Most modern industrial
machines are enclosed in a pressurized tank of insulating gas; these can
achieve potentials up to about 25 megavolts.
3. Wimshurst machine