Design of a Percussion and Electric Primer Gun Firing Power Supply

Abstract

The U.S. Army Research Laboratory has designed and built a new power supply to fire laboratory guns in support of armor research. The new power supply is specifically designed to drive a solenoid into a percussion primer or ignite the M52A3B1 electric primer. To reduce power requirements, it uses charged capacitor banks to drive the solenoid or ignite the primer. This report details the design and construction of the power supplies.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 2014
Accession Number
ADA607546

Entities

People

  • Peter T. Bartkowski

Organizations

  • United States Army Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Capacitors
  • Circuit Boards
  • Circuits
  • Connectors
  • Construction
  • Diodes
  • Electric Primers
  • Heat Sinks
  • Indicators
  • Military Research
  • Power Supplies
  • Printed Circuit Boards
  • Printed Circuits
  • Push Buttons
  • Solenoids
  • Spark Gaps
  • Switches

Readers

  • Electrical Engineering
  • ballistics.