A Marx Generator for Exploding Wire Experiments

摘要

A two-stage Marx generator was designed, constructedand tested for the purpose of investigating long distanceexploding wire experiments. The voltage and energy requirementsfor the experiments are unique; up to 180 kV and 40kJ is required. Capacitor banks, earthing switches, spark gapsand resistors were purpose-built. Using the completed setup,conductive plasma paths up to 36 m long have been investigated.