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The scheme of an automatic protection device on the basis of a controlled vacuum spark gap with an operation time of <1 μs is proposed. The results of studying the start-up and switching characteristics of this device are presented. The high switching capability of the device is ensured by the ability of the spark gap to multiply pass pulse currents with amplitudes of up to hundreds of kiloamperes and durations of up to hundreds of microseconds and commercial-frequency currents of up to several tens of kiloamperes for several periods.
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Original Russian Text © D.F. Alferov, D.V. Evsin, V.P. Ivanov, V.A. Sidorov, 2011, published in Pribory i Tekhnika Eksperimenta, 2011, No. 1, pp. 72–76.
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Alferov, D.F., Evsin, D.V., Ivanov, V.P. et al. A device for protection against pulse overvoltages based on a triggered vacuum spark gap. Instrum Exp Tech 54, 65–69 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0020441211010131
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