High Voltage Power Supplies

Feature-rich high voltage power supplies for research and development

Project Peta-pico-Voltron offers  a free design of computer-controlled high voltage power supplies with detailed assembly and usage instructions. The Peta-pico-Voltron concept includes:

  • printed-circuit board (PCB) design
  • assembly, testing, and calibration instructions.
  • A graphic user interface to control the power supply and a library of functions to integrate the power supplies in computer-controlled test beds.
The Peta-pico-Voltron high voltage power supply concept. (Note: arbitrary waveform output function currently in development. Will be available in next firmware release)
The Peta-pico-Voltron high voltage power supply concept.

Peta-pico-voltron’s power supply was designed to drive electrostatic actuators, such as dielectric elastomer actuators and zipping actuators used in soft robotics, but its field of application extends beyond soft actuators to any project that requires precise high-voltage at low current.

Peta-pico-Voltron hvps-x high voltage power supply
Peta-pico-Voltron hvps-x high voltage power supply
Arbitrary high-voltage waveform generation. A few examples of 5Hz waveforms between 500V and 3500V into a 100pF load. Sine wave, Triangle wave with rising edge lasting 20% of the period, Trapezoid wave with 30% duty cycle, and raising/falling edges lasting 10% of the period, and user-defined custom waveform.

hvps-x is our current high-voltage power supply design which is actively developed and maintained. More information.

Peta-pico-Voltron in action

Peta-pico-Voltron in action: See applications of the Peta-pico-Voltron High Voltage Power supply and link to scholarly articles that use the HVPS

Journal article about Peta-pico-Voltron in HardwareX: Peta-pico-Voltron: An open-source high voltage power supply

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