SLAC modulator system improvements and reliability results

A.R. Donaldson
Conference Record of the Twenty-Third International Power Modulator Symposium (Cat. No. 98CH36133)  
A. Abstract In 1995, an improvement project was completed on the 244 klystron modulators in the linear accelerator. The modulator system has been previously described [ 11. This article offers project details and their resulting effect on modulator and component reliability. Prior to the project, we had collected four operating cycles (1991 through 1995) of MTTF data [2] . In this discussion, the '91 data will be excluded since the modulators operated at 60 Hz. The five periods following the
more » ... run were reviewed due to the common repetition rate at 120 Hz.
doi:10.1109/modsym.1998.741195 fatcat:3r54cfx3unflhcwc754t32vddq