Re: I X-Rayed my Apple IIe

["Grant Stockly" <grant@stockly.com>]

> After 100 stages of multiplication, getting 6-10mA would require some
> pretty good sized capacitors at 60Hz, so I'm guessing that this is a
> high-frequency switching supply.

Some new ones are.  Old units are just huge and heavy.  Lifting eyes on
the top.  :)

But If you double your double and so on you'll only need 10 stages.
Right?

> I understand--physics was my subject even then.  (I have also always
> been a lead collector--I'm guessing I have a couple hundred pounds,
> most of it from thrown wheel weights I found while riding my
> bicycle.  ;-)

Our last cabinet for 450kv 10ma weighed in at around 8,000lbs.  : )