Driving parallel flashlamps with a compensated pulsed alternator
Abstract
Results are given for a prototype compensated pulsed generator that was operated up to its 5400 rpm design speed. The machine has delivered approximately 140 kilojoules of energy in a single 1.3 millisecond pulse into a load comprising sixteen parallel flashlamps. The energy delivered to the lamps follows a W = (rpm/225 to the 4th power scaling law to about 4200 rpm. Beyond that speed, eddy current losses become significant with the present design. Various codes are able to model the machine parameters, and the prototype is presently being rebuilt to reduce the high speed losses predicted by the codes and verified by experiment.
- Publication:
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Presented at the 14th Pulse Power Modulator Symp
- Pub Date:
- May 1980
- Bibcode:
- 1980ppm..symp.....C
- Keywords:
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- Flash Lamps;
- Light Sources;
- Pulse Generators;
- Electromechanics;
- Systems Engineering;
- Electronics and Electrical Engineering