AN EXPERIMENTAL 10,000 VOLT PULSE GENERATOR.

Transient voltages, varying from about 100 volts to over 10,000 volts occur on electrical power lines supplying sensitive Naval cryptographic and computer equipment. These transients are capable of destroying, interrupting, or introducing errors into, such equipment. To evaluate the attenuation characteristics of suppression devices and networks to combat these transients, it was necessary to develop a suitable transient generator. This report describes a 0- to 10,000-volt pulse generator developed at NCEL for this purpose, and the method of its employment in a test procedure. Testing by this method has been shown to be simple, reliable, and inexpensive accurate in pulse amplitude and pulse width and relatively free of circuit ringing. The pulse generator discharges approximately 4 microfarads of capacitance at 0 to 10,000 volts, with a resulting maximum energy of 200 joules. Author