As-built design, installation, and test of a pulsed, high-power, high-voltage video load for the ALCOR transmitter

Author

Brown, P. ; McCordic, C.

fYear

1998

fDate

22-25 Jun 1998

Firstpage

58

Lastpage

61

Abstract

A preliminary design of a pulsed, high-power, high-voltage, video dummy load (VDL) was reported earlier by Brown and McCordic (see Proc. International Power Modulator Symposium Conf., Boca Raton, FL, USA, IEEE, p.125-8 (1996). In spring of 1997, the VDL was fabricated, installed, and tested in the ALCOR (ARPA-Lincoln C-band Observables Radar) transmitter. This paper presents modified VDL design requirements; an analysis tool for mixed-dielectric complex-geometry voltage stress problems; an example of bus redesign using this tool; and compares some of the analysis predictions with test data

Keywords

military radar; pulse generators; pulsed power supplies; radar transmitters; resistors; ALCOR transmitter; ARPA-Lincoln C-band Observables Radar; bus redesign; ceramic tubular resistors; high-power high-voltage video dummy load; military radar; mixed-dielectric complex-geometry voltage stress problems; pulsed video dummy load; Automatic logic units; Dielectrics; Minerals; Petroleum; Resistors; Stress; Testing; Transmitters; Videoconference; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Modulator Symposium, 1998. Conference Record of the 1998 Twenty-Third International

Conference_Location

Rancho Mirage, CA

ISSN

1076-8467

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4244-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MODSYM.1998.741191

Filename

741191