Test results of the 8.35 kA, 15 kV, 10 pps pulser for the Elettra kickers

With reference to the Conceptual Design of ELETTRA, the kicker magnets to be used for the injection into the 2 GeV storage ring Elettra require to be supplied by a high peak pulsed current whose characteristics must be strictly controlled over a long period of operation. A thyratron friendly circuit configuration, based on a capacitor discharge type power pulser with a resistive recovery, has been designed and tested at 8800 A peak current, 10 pps, showing the ability to operate for more than 2 million pulses without any fault firing and with no significant degradation of the thyratron