What's stopping you from putting a 100nF/630V cap between input and
> output of the inverter (if not shorting it directly, assuming the output
> is floating). You could use a little SLA 12V battery and a cheap automoti=
ve
> grade inverter.
>

Thought about it, but I like the direct approach.


> Given the weirdness of this thing- magnetics, inductance and high-frequen=
cy
> Tesla-style resonance-I'd try really hard to keep the supply velly simila=
r
> to the original unless you're really keen for a project.
>

Well, this is a project that appeals. I'm just having trouble finding the
right way to think on it.

They are pretty impressive. Back at the turn of the previous century, very
similar devices were being sold as medical cure-alls, soon to be followed
by radium salts.  Given the technology of the time, getting 50kV at a
couple hundred kHz in something that you could walk around with was pretty
impressive.  Some of those devices are still out there working.

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