{"id":563,"date":"2020-03-08T02:06:54","date_gmt":"2020-03-08T02:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nuclearphysicslab.com\/npl\/electrolytic-cap-bank\/"},"modified":"2020-03-18T14:26:49","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T18:26:49","slug":"electrolytic-cap-bank","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.nuclearphysicslab.com\/npl\/npl-home\/high-voltage-pulsed-power\/electrolytic-cap-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Thunder"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Author:  Jay, Jimbo, &amp; Tim<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;ve built a general purpose electrolytic capacitor based pulser.  Initially it drove a large set of coils, but is present application drives a series chain of a dozen smaller coils.  This arrangement does not have a sufficiently short R\/L time constant, so SCR switching is not adequate &#8211; as the charging supply kicks in and keeps the SCR conducting, therefore not allowing the cap bank to recharge.  An IGBT was needed and Jay worked with a colleague to develop a TTL driven pulsed switch.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nuclearphysicslab.com\/npl\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_9186-rotated.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"3024\" height=\"4032\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nuclearphysicslab.com\/npl\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_9186-rotated.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-944\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.nuclearphysicslab.com\/npl\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_9186-rotated.jpg 3024w, http:\/\/www.nuclearphysicslab.com\/npl\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_9186-1875x2500.jpg 1875w, http:\/\/www.nuclearphysicslab.com\/npl\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_9186-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.nuclearphysicslab.com\/npl\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_9186-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http:\/\/www.nuclearphysicslab.com\/npl\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_9186-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.nuclearphysicslab.com\/npl\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_9186-203x270.jpg 203w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 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