title: A pulsed-power generator merging inductive voltage and current adders and its switch trigger application example.
abstract: A pulsed-power generator using inductive adder technology is proposed for the case of a discharge gap. The merit of this generator is to merge the pulsed-voltage and pulsed-current adders via the dual secondary windings with special circuit. For the nonlinear impedance in any discharge gap, the standalone voltage-pulse and current-pulse can be outputted successively by this generator. The proposed generator is especially useful for the common resolution of implementing pulse discharge at less cost. As an application example, a compact trigger prototype was developed to compatibly use in the gas-insulated and vacuum switches. Experiments achieved good results that the triggered switches showed stable performance and long life. If the basic circuit of this proposed generator is regarded as a pulsed-generating unit, a certain number of such units connected in parallel can be expected to form a general device with generating greater breakdown-voltage and sustained-current pulses for discharge gaps.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Advanced Electromagnetic Engineering and Technology, College of Electric and Electronic Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan 430074, China. leeli@mail.hust.edu.cn
authors.forename: Lee
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Ge
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Yafeng
authors.forename: Zhong
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Heqin
authors.forename: Yu
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Bin
authors.forename: Xie
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Longjun