THERMALLY OPTIMIZED TORUS INDUCTOR, USED IN TRIPLE-ROOT CIRCUIT CONFIGURATION FOR PLASMA DRIVERS AND BALLASTS

摘要

The present invention discloses a unique method to design and operate torus inductor components with very linear properties to construct ballasts and plasma drivers with very high short circuit current capability and very high open circuit voltage capacity necessary to operate high intensity discharge lamps, plasma tubes, gas lasers, x-ray units, spark gaps and similar nonlinear loads. This is obtained with small capacitors by configuring the component values to operate at a new analytically derived triple root of the network transfer function. By parallel formulation of electric and magnetic phenomena, the present invention takes advantage of the dual nature of electric and magnetic properties from the relativistic point of view allowing unified terminology in addressing the conductors, magnetic cores, dielectrics and the norilinear load with alternatively open and short circuit characteristics.