High average current-high repetition thyratron testing at ETDL

Author

Mcgowan, Joseph ; Creedon, John ; Perkuhn, Peter

Author_Institution

US Army Electron. Tech. & Dev. Lab., Fort Monmouth, NJ, USA

fYear

1988

fDate

20-22 Jun 1988

Firstpage

156

Lastpage

158

Abstract

The US Army´s Pulse Power Center´s high-power-thyratron test facility was expanded to include the capability of evaluating switch performance at high repetition rates in either a pulse-forming network or a capacitor circuit. In addition to the existing 4 Ω network, an RLC circuit was installed. The facility was designed to test thyratrons at 55 A of average current for run times of 100 s. The system has operated reliably at 25 kV and at peak currents of 3 and 6 kA at repetition rates up to 5 kHz. A common resonant charge circuit was also installed for high-repetition-rate operation. Thyratrons from two manufacturers are being tested

Keywords

test facilities; testing; thyratrons; 100 s; 25 kV; 3 to 6 kA; 4 ohm; 5 kHz; 55 A; capacitor circuit; common resonant charge circuit; high repetition rates; high-power-thyratron test facility; pulse-forming network; switch performance; Circuit testing; Pulse circuits; RLC circuits; Resonance; Switched capacitor circuits; Switched capacitor networks; Switches; Switching circuits; Test facilities; Thyratrons;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Modulator Symposium, 1988. IEEE Conference Record of the 1988 Eighteenth

Conference_Location

Hilton Head, SC

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MODSYM.1988.26258

Filename

26258