Some anon showed me this and told me it amplifies electricity. Why does this work?
Why do you need diodes? Why can't it just be one big capacitor?
Some anon showed me this and told me it amplifies electricity. Why does this work? Why do you need diodes?
Maybe you should have posted this in the general thread instead of making a new one you homosexual.
it's a charge pump you moron look it up
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltage_multiplier
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/wienercroft%E2%80%93Walton_generator
here u go
>amplifies
>amp lifies
>amp
Watch electroboom's magic wand
You can't "amplify electricity".
What you posted is probably a charge pump doubler.
Each stage adds the supply tension (voltage) of the previous stage.
Thus, with one stage, you double your tension, two you triple, and so on.
You can only have as much current as the capacitor can store.
And the more they have, the longer it takes to charge.
Other anons have posted links about it, but if you don't know the basic terminology, it will be hard for you to learn.
Maybe have a "electricity 101" first?
+1, right on the money, i haven't thought about that...
i think TPAI made some good vids about SMPS which can be a good reference
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxaGnte1Dq0lgNtfA9H5Hd_YDyjylThJJ
not sure how unfamiliar is OP with electronics as a whole thou so idk man Ig this is more than good enough
>Why does this work?
its the equivalent of charging a heap of capacitors by hand manually, and then putting them all in line
This is the right answer
>its the equivalent of charging a heap of capacitors by hand
from the VCC, in parallel.
>and then putting them all in line
in series with the LED or whatever.
Same thing can be done with inductors in the inverse too, if you wanted to be moronic
>Why can't it just be one big capacitor?
Think of a capacitor as a drinking glass, and the electrical supply as a water faucet, and the sink drain as the power looping back to supply or to a device being powered.
The faucet puts out X gallons per minute of water. Now with the faucet on, you put the glass under it, and the glass starts filling up. However as the glass is filling up, there is no longer any water getting to the sink drain because it's all going into filling the glass. Once the glass is full, it starts overflowing and then the sink drain starts receiving the original X gallons per hour flow from the overflowing glass.
Now the sink drain cannot see any more water flow than the X gallons per hour that the faucet puts out, unless you dump the glass out. When the glass gets dumped, the drain sees a large increase in water flow, but only for a very short amount of time. Then the drain stops receiving water again as you turn the glass back upright and start filling it up again.
As you can see in this scenario, adding the glass (capacitor) doesn't raise the constant rate of flow through the system.