Theoretically, there's no reason why switched capacitors cant be used instead of inductors for voltage multiplication. Charge-pumps were used on a lot of IC's back in the 1980's before everything went to CMOS, notably DRAMs, that operated from a single supply-voltage. Some of you may remember the 4116 had three supply voltages, but the next-generation 4164 was 5V-only. Those were exciting times when DRAMs went from 16Kx1 to 64Kx1.......
Boosting 12V to 200V for a nixie supply without an inductor is certainly possible, but it's not very practical. On Monday, October 26, 2020 at 2:12:48 PM UTC-7 Dekatron42 wrote: > Soon you might not see them anymore: > https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02721-7 , just kidding - it > will require some more breakthroughs before they have a practical > component, but it would be nice if they could get smaller...... > > /Martin > > On Monday, 26 October 2020 15:35:36 UTC+1, Paul Andrews wrote: >> >> Yep. Its all about the transformer, until it isn't. That's the hardest >> part about rolling your own power supply. >> >> -- 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 view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/3c25f3e5-459d-4f1d-8e7f-08c76e703879n%40googlegroups.com.
