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Old 6th Oct 2019, 9:20 pm   #121
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The phrase I recall is "capacitors charged in parallel and discharged in series".
Rob
It's called a Marx Generator (Whether Karl or Groucho, I'm unsure)

I remember that too, and peering into a dark box...press the button and the mercury arc rectifier started up like some alien monster.

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