Reproducible pulses from an improved oil switch on Aurora

Author

Pereira, N.R. ; Gondarenko, N.A.

Author_Institution

Berkeley Res. Associates, Springfield, VA, USA

Volume

2

fYear

1995

fDate

3-6 July 1995

Firstpage

846

Abstract

The Blumlein switch on the Aurora electron accelerator has been improved over the years. The authors describe recent developments and the latest version of this switch. Excellent results are obtained with a half-size (50 cm diameter) trigger electrode that initiates only a single arc in the oil. Placing the arc in the symmetry plane of the downstream prepulse switch, and using only two of its self-breaking arcs, gives output pulses that are reproducible almost to within measurement error.

Keywords

circuit-breaking arcs; electron accelerators; oil circuit breakers; power supplies to apparatus; pulse generators; pulsed power switches; switchgear testing; 0.5 MJ; 12 MV; 120 ns; 300 kA; 50 cm; 50 ns; Aurora electron accelerator; Blumlein switch; developments; downstream prepulse switch; oil switch improvements; pulsed power supply; self-breaking arcs; switch testing; trigger electrode; Electrodes; Electrons; Measurement errors; Petroleum; Pulse measurements; Pulse shaping methods; Shape; Space vector pulse width modulation; Switches; Timing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Pulsed Power Conference, 1995. Digest of Technical Papers., Tenth IEEE International

Conference_Location

Albuquerque, NM, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2791-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PPC.1995.599717

Filename

599717