Yeah, that was my thought. It is a voltage doubler. I've had good luck with switching supplies, granted most have been buck converters... careful layout, almost always mimicking the eval board or the design guidelines has kept me out of trouble.
I'll let you know what I find. On Tuesday, December 22, 2015 at 11:36:57 AM UTC-6, gregebert wrote: > Are you considering the 240V boost converter on the datasheet ? It looks > suspiciously like a voltage-doubler. If you get the demo board, and explore > this option, I'd like to see scope pictures. > > Several times I've considered a switchmode supply for the HV, but after my > experience with the wristwatch project (and others) I found that you have > to spend a lot of time polishing the design with simulations, and > benchwork. I always find that under little or no output load, switching > supplies work beautifully. Once you start loading them down, ugly things > crawl out of the woods (noise, stray inductance, saturation, ringing, > heat-losses,.....) > > In the end, I just stick with a linear supply because it's just too > doggone simple and reliable. > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/f14f2b56-c06b-4832-8cca-9426913b03c0%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
