Final Design and Commissioning Test Results for the Hypervelocity Launcher Research Complex Battery Power Supply

Abstract

The preliminary design of the battery power supply (BPS) was reported to the 6th IEEE Pulsed Power Conference [1]. In 1987, the final design was completed, assembled, and sequentially verified during approximately 1750 operational verification tests. These experiments consisted of single-string verifications at 1000 amperes to a system discharge of 21,500,000 amperes. Final system design is very similar to the preliminary design previously presented. System fabrication is complete and at the present time consists of 858, 16-battery series strings resulting in 13,728 operational batteries.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1989
Accession Number
ADA638163

Entities

People

  • J. B. Cornette
  • J. D. Sterrett
  • J. R. Lippert
  • R. W. Williams

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Air Force
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Control Systems
  • Energy
  • Fabrication
  • Impedance
  • Inductors
  • Launchers
  • Power
  • Power Supplies
  • Pulsed Power
  • Research Facilities
  • Resistance
  • Resistors
  • Sequences
  • Storage

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Aerospace Propulsion Engineering.
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Software Engineering

Technology Areas

  • Hypersonics
  • Hypersonics - Hypersonic Flow