Tried searching before posting, but didn't find much on this issue. Just wondering if you can stack or daisy chain transformers to achieve high voltage?
I'm guessing there is some sort of limiting factor, because I don't see it done much. And I often see people pay good money for transformers to use on jacobs ladders, or tesla coils, or other very high voltage applications.
Couldn't someone just buy 3 or 4 of the cheapest transformers they could find, and chain them, causing the voltage to exponentially increase each time, to deliver similar results? Perhaps even chaining 10 or so to get up to multiple millions of volts?
And in the same sense, its my understanding that a tesla coil is basically 2 transformers, usually one in the base which steps the initial voltage up quite high for the primary coil, and then the primary and secondary coils are the second transformer. Well, why not add another a 10:1 ratio transformer somewhere in the chain to make the tesla coil 10 times as strong? I'm guessing there is some limiting factor, since I don't ever see small tesla coils making 10 foot sparks.