Triacs,Arduino,High voltage and a novice user

purcinela:
I will try to go in to a bit more details.The plan is to feed 240 AC in to a bridge rectifier and end up with about 215 volts DC.This will go in to a "3 stage PnP mosfet cascade" M1,M2,M3.I'm plannig of using a reducing factor of 2,so M1 will will go from 215 to about 108 V,M2 from 108 V to 54 V and M3 from 54 V to about 27 V.Each gate will be triggered with restors R1,R2 and R3.There will be a small value capacitor "before" the resistors to try and stabilize the voltage at the gates.The problem i have is that i can;t find anywhere something similar and because if that i think this circuit dose not work or is very hard to stabilize the PnP cascade.Any ideas?! :slight_smile:

Scary story. Don't do anything stupid like this.
Things connected to the mains need galvanic isolation.

Linear/resistive dropping to get 24volt/2Amp from 230volt AC could generate about 600watt in the transistors.
You would need a fan-assisted heatsink the size of a shoebox to keep things cool.

Buy the eggs (24volt switch-mode supply).
Leo..