Abstract
This chapter discusses the conversion of capacitor energy into voltage impulses. Fundamentally, it is possible to convert energy from a storage capacitor of given charging voltage and capacitance into a pulse of other voltage, by means of a special impulse transformer. However, when only voltage multiplication is at stake, the impulse voltage circuit published by Marx can serve the purpose. In the cascade connection by Marx, there are charged in parallel, capacitors of similar size, capacitance, and charging voltage, through resistors. These capacitors are discharged in series through spark gaps or switching means. The non-distorting pulse transformer was designed by W. H. Bostick. The procedure given by Bostick bears some formal resemblance to general practice in the design of power transformers. In power transformers operating at a constant frequency, the energy stored in the coil and core is, for the most part, not lost but returned to the circuit. While pulse transformers normally have a very small leakage inductance and a high efficiency, but relatively small pulse power, another type of transformer called a peak power or energy transformer has a high leakage inductance but allows production of peak power amounts up to 2,000 mega-watts and higher.
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