Electric circuit#
A tutorial series on characterizing the pulsed-discharge electrical circuit:
electrical length and the lumped-vs-distributed decision (1), then how to
calibrate the model parameters from what you measure — cable delay and
impedance by TDR (2), loop inductance from the current rise into a dummy load
(3), cable capacitance from the open-end charging transient (4) — and the
LC-ladder picture that ties the calibrations together (5). Companion class:
notebooks/transmission_line_vs_inductance.ipynb. Then, two examples
demonstrating rizer.electrical_model’s circuit/reactor coupling: the same
low-voltage discharge driven by an RLRp vs a CLLRp circuit (6), the same
constant-mass discharge driven by three circuits with very different current
limiting – a transmission line, a direct (unclamped) voltage, and an
RC_Rp_Circuit (7) – and, on the same transmission line, three different
source-side networks – a plain resistive source vs a capacitor shunting the
source’s own output node (c_shunt) vs the same capacitor in parallel with the
source resistance itself (c_parallel) (8).
Tutorial 1 — Electrical length: which circuit model does your setup need?
Tutorial 2 — TDR: calibrate the cable delay and impedance from echoes.
Tutorial 3 — Loop inductance from the current rise into a dummy load.
Tutorial 4 — Cable capacitance from the charging transient (no load).
Tutorial 5 — The LC-ladder view: why the calibrations are consistent.
Tutorial 6 — Driving the same low-voltage discharge with two different circuits.
Tutorial 7 — Four circuits driving the same constant-mass discharge.
Tutorial 8 — Capacitive source networks: c_shunt vs c_parallel.