Staged Inductive Pulse Generator with Capacitive Current Source

摘要

A pulse generator for testing fast opening, vacuum switches that uses vacuum inductive energy storage with an economical capacitor bank current source and copper-wire fuses for the first stage opening switch is now operational. Initial, low level tests with a self-closing output switch result in an output pulse current of 450 kA and risetime of 0.6 microseconds. Keywords include: Inductive store, Pulsedpower generator, and Fuse opening switches.