Interlock Device
Abstract
The invention pertains to pulsed power supplies and can be used in protecting flash tubes from surges in laser pumping systems. There exists an interlock device containing (parallel-connected to each other) an inductive storage, a load in the form of m branches, each of which consists of n series- connected gas-filled flash tubes, an interlock discharger with a firing unit and a current supply connected across a current commutator to the inductive storage, a control pulse generator, and a flash tube firing element. In this device, the interlock discharger is started by means of a circuit for comparing the voltage in the load with the reference voltage, which does not enable the tubes to be reliably protected against overloading when some of them fail because the surge effects at the output of the inductive storage are smoothed out due to mutual shunting of the parallel load branches and the resistance drop in flash tubes with rise in current. Russian translations.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 12, 1990
- Accession Number
- ADA225261
Entities
People
- V. F. Borisov
- V. M. Irtuganov
- V. P. Kalinin
- V. S. Popov
- Yu. A. Ananyev
Organizations
- National Air and Space Intelligence Center