Citation
Abstract
A crowbar is described which is capabie of holding off 100,000 V dc using two mercury pool ignitrons connected in series. This crowbar assembly will replace the single high-voltage ignitron in the 400-kW transmitter at DSS 14 and will be part of the DSN 100-kW transmitters being constructed overseas. It was necessary to develop a higher voltage device in order to improve the reliability of the crowbar used to protect the high-powered RF klystron from self-destruction. The single ignitron has trouble operating over 60,000 V. An engineering model was built and has been operating satisfactorily at DSS 13.
Details
- Volume
- XVII
- Published
- October 15, 1973
- Pages
- 120–122
- File Size
- 142.6 KB