A Remotely Controlled Electron Gun for a 200 KeV Electrostatic Accelerator
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2013-12-01
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Lipnicki, Alexander
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Houghton College
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One problem encountered in the design for the Houghton College electrostatic electron accelerator is the electron source, which must be operated while floating at a potential of 200 kV. The simple two-grid electron gun used previously did not have electrodes to provide focusing and positioning of the beam. A new electron gun was constructed using an RCA 3RP1 cathode ray tube. This electron gun may be remotely controlled via an Ethernet-GPIB-RS232-Fiber optic link to a BASIC stamp-2 microcontroller inside the high voltage terminal. This microcontroller controls the intensity, focus, and acceleration grids of the cathode ray tube using a 12-bit four channel DAC7624 digital-to-analog converter, which, after current amplification, drives four EMCO G20 DC to HV DC converters.
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