You hooked up two bridge rectifiers in parallel? How would that give double the voltage?
I plan on it, I'm going to buy a proper enclosure and wire it up safely grounding the chassis and using a Cockcroft Walton multiplier to get the voltage up a tad higher. I definitely know it wasn't the best idea, but it was 3 or 4 am and I was a tad tired I still did take some precautions, working with one hand behind my back (well, at least far back from the capacitors)
I also plan on grabbing an isolation transformer off ebay or seeing if the one from my APC power supply can be used as one but a proper isolation one is probably a better bet and probably fairly cheap on ebay if you look in the right section.
Also, interesting, I didn't know it was a coax delay line, I figured that was just the coil used to align the electron beam, thanks for the neat info.
This was also before I leaned as much about (relatively) high voltage than I have now, and I do recognize that it was insanely dangerous if I had made a mistake.
You hooked up two bridge rectifiers in parallel? How would that give double the voltage?
I figured that paralleling up the DC outputs might give me 240 volts, and figured what the heck may as well see if my theory was correct, turns out it was not.