Low jitter spark gap switch for repetitively pulsed parallel capacitor banks

Conference · Tue Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1980

OSTI ID:5240398

Rohwein, G. J.

A two-section air insulated spark gap has been developed for switching multi-kilojoule plus-minus charged parallel capacitor banks which operate continuously at pulse rates up to 20 pps. The switch operates with less than 2 ns jitter, recovers its dielectric strength within 2 to 5 ms and has not shown degraded performance in sequential test runs totaling over a million shots. Its estimated life with copper electrodes is > 10/sup 7/ shots. All preliminary tests indicate that the switch is suitable for continuous running multi-kilojoule systems operating to at least 20 pps.

• Research Organization: Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-76DP00789
• OSTI ID: 5240398
• Report Number(s): SAND-80-0456C; CONF-800640-2
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS
430303* -- Particle Accelerators-- Experimental Facilities & Equipment
ACCELERATORS
DATA
DATA FORMS
ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS
ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT
EXPERIMENTAL DATA
FUNCTION GENERATORS
GRAPHS
INFORMATION
LINEAR ACCELERATORS
NUMERICAL DATA
PERFORMANCE
PULSE GENERATORS
SPARK GAPS
SWITCHING CIRCUITS