[Amps] For cats sake!

[Barrie Smith]

I've been running the HV for my 432 amp from a sort-of all-purpose power supply through a long piece of coax.

The problem is that the power supply is built (in my typical fashion) in the bottom of a large rack, with no covers on anything.  So, HV is readily accessible to my wife's relatively new and very curious cats.

Untill I can unbuild, and then fashion covers for the main power supply, I think I'll build a complete power supply for the 432 amp.

I don't want to buy a new transformer.  I do have a surplus Peter Dahl 3100 volt @ 1.5 amp ccs transformer that will supply more than the 3000 volts  that I need.

I could include a variac, which I have, although I hear various reports on this reflector that variacs are bad.

Another option, which I know nothing about, would be the "buck-and-boost" scheme.

Other than going QRT, any comments on an approach?

73, Barrie, W7ALW