The circuit in this Design Ideauses a Microchip 12F10 controllerto drive a voltage multiplier ladderand a single pin to output status and toinput a trigger signal you supply (Figure1). When you ...

A 15-year-old boy in Ohio electrocuted himself while attempting a science experiment he saw on YouTube, Reuters reported. The teenager, Morgan Wojciechowski, tried to conduct a high-voltage experiment ...

There was a time when making a high voltage project like a Jacob’s ladder took time to build or scrounge some kind of high voltage circuit. The neon sign transformer, Marx generator, or voltage ...

A Jacob´s ladder is a favorite project of high voltage enthusiasts. It makes a visually attractive and fun display of a high voltage electrical arc climbing a pair of electrodes. [Keystone Science] ...