Analysis of crowbar action of high voltage DC power supply in the LHD ICRF system

Ion Cyclotron Range of Frequency (ICRF) heating will be applied to the Large Helical Device (LHD) at the 2nd experimental campaign in 1998. The LHD ICRF system is characterised by its high power (up to 12 MW at final stage) and steady state operation for more than 30 minutes. One of the main R and D items was a high power and steady state transmitter. The RF transmitter system having a wide frequency range from 25 to 95 MHz was designed and fabricated. This report describes the analysis of the DC power supply that contains the crowbar circuit protecting the tetrode from the arcing inside the tube. The DC power supply of the transmitter is fed from the commercial AC electric line which also supply the power to the LHD helical and poloidal coil power supplies. The voltage drop of the commercial line when the ICRF crowbar action happened is the serious problem for all experimental system. This paper analyses the crowbar effect on the commercial line with and without leakage transformer between the step-up transformer of transmitter and the commercial line. (author)