Abstract
The designs of two high-voltage high-current air-filled spark gaps of an artificial-lightning-current generator-a two-electrode ДMBP-5 gap for a voltage of up to ±5 kV with graphitized-carbon electrodes and a three-electrode TKBP-50 gap for a voltage of up to ±50 kV with steel electrodes—are described, and their main switching characteristics and the results of tests are presented. Tests were performed with a ДMBP-5 spark gap that switched the normalized long C lightning-current component with an amplitude of up to 0.85 kA, a rise time of up to 0.77 × 105 A/s, a maximum duration of 1000 ms, and a transferred electric charge of up to 210 C. When a TKBP-50 spark gap was used, the normalized pulse A lightning-current component with an amplitude of up to 212 kA, a rise time of up to 7 × 109 A/s, a maximum duration of 500 μs, and an action integral of up to 2.07 × 106 A2 s was switched.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Similar content being viewed by others
References
Baranov, M.I., Koliushko, G.M., Kravchenko, V.I., et al., Prib. Tekh. Eksp., 2008, no. 3, p. 81.
SAE ARR 5412/ED-84, Normativnyi dokument “Rekomenduemaya praktika aviatsionno-kosmicheskikh rabot. Idealizirovannye sostavlyayushchie vneshnego toka” (Normative Document “Recommended Practice of Aviation and Space Works. Idealized Components of the External Current”), USA, 1985.
SAE ARR 5416/ED-84. Normativnyi dokument “Rekomenduemaya praktika aviatsionno-kosmicheskikh rabot. Usloviya vozdeistviya molnii na letatel’nye apparaty i sootvetstvuyushchie formy ispytatel’nykh signalov” (Normative Document “Recommended Practice of Aviation and Space Works. Conditions of the Effect of Lightning on Aircrafts and Appropriate Shapes of Test Signals”), USA, 1997.
KTR-VVF/DO-160D/ED-14D, Kvalifikatsionnye trebovaniya “Usloviya ekspluatatsii i okruzhayushchei sredy dlya bortovogo aviatsionnogo oborudovaniya. Trebovaniya, normy i metody ispytanii” (Qualifying Requirements “Operating and Environmental Conditions for Airborne Aviation Equipment: Requirements, Standards, and Methods of Tests”), Moscow: Izd. Standartov, 2004.
GOST (State Standard) 30585-98: Resistance to the Action of Lightning Discharges: Specifications and Testing Methods, Kiev: Izd. Standartov Ukrainy, 1998.
Dnyshchenko, V.N., Eremeev, V.O., Nedzel’skii, O.S., et al., Visnik NTU “KhPI,” Vyp. “Tekhnika i Elektrofizika Visokikh Naprug.” Kharkiv: NTU “KhPI”, 2007, no. 20, p. 75.
Baranov, M.I., Tekhnichna Elektrodinamika, 2004, no. 5, p. 11.
Lozanskii, E.D. and Firsov, O.B., Teoriya iskry (Spark Theory), Moscow: Atomizdat, 1975.
Spravochnik po elektrotekhnicheskim materialam (Handbook for Electrical Materials), Koritskii, Yu.V., Pasynkov, V.V, and Tareev, B.M., Eds., Leningrad: Energoatomizdat, 1988, vol. 3.
Dashuk, P.N., Zaients, S.L., Komel’kov, V.S., et al., Tekhnika bol’shikh impul’snykh tokov i magnitnykh polei (High-Pulse-Current and High-Magnetic-Field Engineering), Moscow: Atomizdat, 1970.
Baranov, M.I., Bocharov, V.A., Zyabko, Yu.P., et al., Tekhnichna Elektrodinamika, 2003, no. 5, p. 55.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Additional information
Original Russian Text © M.I. Baranov, G.M. Koliushko, V.I. Kravchenko, O.S. Nedzel’skii, M.A. Nosenko, 2008, published in Pribory i Tekhnika Eksperimenta, 2008, No. 6, pp. 58–62.
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Baranov, M.I., Koliushko, G.M., Kravchenko, V.I. et al. High-voltage high-current air-filled spark gaps of an artificial-lightning-current generator. Instrum Exp Tech 51, 833–837 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0020441208060109
Received:
Accepted:
Published:
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S0020441208060109