A small-scale capacitor discharge pulse generator using thyristors in a Marx configuration is described. The four-stage generator is actively triggered in a sequential manner. The application considered is in the firing circuit of a larger switch where the generator is shown to be capable of producing pulses rising to 230 A in less than 1.5 μs from an equivalent open-circuit voltage of 2.3 kV.
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