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How do you increace voltage?

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Anonymous

15y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

With Alternating Current (AC) voltage may be increased by using a transformer with a primary coil that has fewer turns than its secondary coil.

With Direct Current (DC) an inverter is required which takes a DC signal at one voltage and uses a microcontroller to chop the signal into AC generally in the form of a square wave. The AC is then used to step-up to the voltage needed and then rectified back to DC again. This is also known as a Switch Mode Power Supply, since the DC is made into AC by means of the "switching" done by the microcontroller.

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15y ago

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