Design and construction of a triggered spark gap for long distance exploding wire experiments

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Author
Sinton, R.
van Herel, R.
Enright, W.
Bodger, P.
Date
2010Permanent Link
http://hdl.handle.net/10092/5068This paper gives the technical information required to build a triggered spark gap (TSG) for igniting exploding wire experiments. The TSG, which uses a concentric three-electrode configuration, reliably triggers on test voltages between 10 and 60 kVdc from a 21 µF capacitor bank discharge source. A description of the electronic triggering circuit, operating region and a set of experimental results obtained using the TSG are also given.