Design and Development of DSP Controlled Filament Power Supply for 1 MW, 352.2 MHz Klystron

A digitally controlled current regulated 20 V, 25 A dc power supply employing IGBT based chopper is developed as the filament power supply for 1 MW, 352.2 MHz, Thales make TH 2089 klystron amplifier. The filament of this klystron is floating at cathode voltage of -100 kV dc, hence this power supply is kept on a floated platform and isolated through a suitable HV isolation transformer. Control and protection of this power supply is implemented through Texas make TMS320F2812 digital signal processor (DSP) and fibre optics based optical communication is adopted. Detailed simulation is carried out and a close match between simulated and experimental results was obtained, which are presented in this paper. The long term output current stability and peak to peak output current ripple of this power supply are found to be below 0.5%.