MAJOR ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT

The maximum total electrical load for the Pelletron facility is

expected to be 1500 KVA. One of the major electrical loads at the
facility comprises the electrical and electronic equipment
associated with the accelerator itself, which does not exceeds 150
KVA at any time during its operation. A fraction of the total load,
amounting to about 60 KVA is due to electrical lighting and other
electro- mechanical service equipment in the building need about
300 KVA. Provision has been made for another 400 KVA, that
would be needed for the LINAC Booster when it becomes
operational.

Accelerator Equipment
The Accelerator equipment may be divided into following six main
categories:
(1) Control Electronics
(2) Ion Source Supplies
(3) Accelerator Tank Equipment
(4) Accelerator Power supplies
(5) Magnet Voltage Supplies
(6) Electrical Equipment

Control Electronics
It consists of, mainly, CAMAC system, control computer and
other Low voltage solid state electronic circuit associated
with small beamline components such as double slits,
Faraday cups, beam profile monitors etc. The control system
is described in Chapter 7. These low voltage, low power
circuits do not present any electrical hazard to personnel.

Ion source Supplies

These are usually low voltage, medium power or high
voltage, low power regulated DC power supplies. The
control is manual, via light-links and CAMAC system, either
from a local console or, remotely from the main console in
the Control room. The Ion Source and its associated
equipment are mounted in a cubical enclosure, called the ion
source DECK, which is supported on about 1.0 meter high
porcelein insulators. The I.S. Deck is operated at a high
potential of 300 KV by connecting it to a HT power supply.
The main power for the ion source supplies is brought to the
I.S. Deck through an oil filled, isolation transformer with
secondary winding insulated from primary and ground for
300 KV.

Accelerator Tank Equipment

The electrical equipment within the accelerator column
consists of, mainly several AC generators, drive motors, high
voltage power supplies and control electronics.
Intercommunication with control computer and CAMAC
system is via light-links kept in the centre terminal and dead
sections.

The low energy dead section contains an electron trap, an

electrostatic quadrupole doublet, ion pump and light-links.
The lower or high energy dead section also contains identical
equipment except for a foil-stripper in place of the
quadrupole. The centre terminal has a ion pump, an
electrostatic quadrupole triplet, sublimation pump (for foil
and gas stripper chamber) and a variable aperture-Faraday
cup assembly. It also contains control electronics and light-
links. An AC generator of 2.5 KVA capacity is provided in
each of the dead sections to supply mains power at 208/115 V,
400 Hz to the power supplies and other electronics. The
centre terminal has two such generators.

A small 0.2 KVA generator is also provided in each of the

twentyeight, 1 MV modules. These generators are houses in
the hollow aluminium casting and are meant for supplying
power to the heater plates within the accelerating tube. All
the column generators are driven by a common, insulated
 rotating shaft, which is coupled to a 15 H.P. drive motor
placed at each end of the column.

The accelerator tank also contains the charging system

already described in chapter 1. The Pelletron accelerator has
been equipped with two pellet charging chains, each being
driven by a 30 cm dia sheave and a 7.5 HP motor on the
bottom base plate of the tank. High voltage required for
charging the chains is brought in through feedthroughs
provided in the tank base from a dual, ± 50 KV, 0.1mA
regulated power supply placed outside the tank.

MAGNET POWER SUPPLY

The power supplies for the various magnets are supplied by
M/s Danfysic (Demark) and M/s Sorensen Inc. USA and are
mainly of two types, viz.

1. High power, high current supplies used to energies the

Injector, Analysing and Switching magnets.
2. Medium power, low current supplies for the quadrupole
triplets and the magnetic beam steerers.

Both are regulated power supplies with a conventional circuit

design utilizing a bank of series power transistors to control the
load current, which is sensed by a resistive element and a feedback
amplifier. The power supplies are manually controlled from either
the front panel or the main console. The high current type supplies
are water cooled and are protected against coolant failure by
thermal or flow switches interlocked with the contactors supplying
main power. Low current supplies are air cooled and are also
protected by thermal elements.

High Voltage Power Supplies

High voltage, low current and low stored energy power supplies,
operating at 5-15 KV and 0-0.1 mA, are used to energise the
electrostatic beam steerers and quadrupole triplets in the low
energy beam line and accelerator column. These supplies are self
contained, completely shielding unit with a circuit based on a 100
KHz oscillator and a Cockcroft-walton type rectifier cascade. The
output voltage is regulated through a potential divider sensor and a
feedback amplifier and it can be controlled via the CAMAC
system. The supplies are protected against overvoltage and spark
breakdowns. A series protective resistor is connected at the output
to limit surge currents. Similarity, a bleeder resistor is connected
across output terminals to discharge the output capacitors when the
power supply is switched off. A 300 KV, 1 mA regulated power
supply of similar of design is provided for the pre-accelerator.

Electrical Rotary Equipment

Several electrical motors of various capacities are in use at
different locations in the Pelletron Accelerator system, e.g.

(i) drive motors inside the accelerator tank for the chains
and the rotating shafts.
(ii) Linear motor drives for the shorting rods and the corona
probe.
(iii) Drive motors for the compressor and the rotary vacuum
pump in the gas handling system.

ILLUMINATION
Electrical lighting is provided at an average illumination level
of 250-300 lux at the floor level in the laboratories and about
100 Lux in the staircase and corridors. In certain areas such as
the laboratory block, control room,etc, illumination by natural
light is also provided by an adequate number of windows.
However, in radiation shielded areas such as the tower and the
beam halls it is not possible to provide any window and all
lighting is electrical. In order to avoid total darkness in the latter
areas during power failures about 30 percent of the lights are
connected to the emergency power line. A minimum
illumination level of about 100 lux at the floor level is thus
ensured during mains power failure. However, as an additional
back-up, portable battery powered emergency lights have also
been installed in all the important areas. Fluorescent tube light
in industrial mountings with transluscent covers are used to
provide uniform and diffused lighting.