page_title: Vector inversion generator
hierarchical_section_title: Vector inversion generator
caption_attribution_description: English: Vector inversion generator. HV IN charges the capacitor stack with alternating polarity, closing the switch (a spark gap in practice) allows every second capacitor to rapidly invert polarity due to the low reactance seen by a differential current flowing through the common mode chokes.
context_page_description: A vector inversion generator is an electric pulse compression and voltage multiplication device, allowing shaping a slower, lower voltage pulse to a narrower, higher-voltage one. VIGs are used in military technology, e.g. some directed-energy weapons, as a secondary stage of another pulsed power source, commonly an explosive-driven ferroelectric generator.
context_section_description: A vector inversion generator (VIG) is an electric pulse compression and voltage multiplication device, allowing shaping a slower, lower voltage pulse to a narrower, higher-voltage one. VIGs are used in military technology, e.g. some directed-energy weapons, as a secondary stage of another pulsed power source, commonly an explosive-driven ferroelectric generator.
caption: A 3-stage discrete component vector inversion generator.
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