vansig wrote:
Eric, could the switches have been made adequate then? That seems still to be a choke-point.
An electrical engineer suggested to me, to do away with the switches (and the capacitors, except for the first shot) and build a resonant circuit. The exit beam would then drive the next pulse, directly. zero-current-transition techniques generalize to the megawatts.
— http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=1248264
— http://www.researchgate.net/publication/34763176_Unified_zero-current-transition_techniques_for_high-power_three-phase_PWM_inverters_electronic_resource_
I think they don’t say anything about a current rise time of 100ns from 0 to 1 MA with a resonating circuit. That’s the problem.
