Open AccessDesign of a Percussion and Electric Primer Gun Firing Power Supply
Author(s) -
Peter T. Bartkowski
Publication year - 2014
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.21236/ada607546
Subject(s) - percussion , primer (cosmetics) , power (physics) , electric power , electrical engineering , engineering , acoustics , chemistry , physics , quantum mechanics , organic chemistry
: The U.S. Army Research Laboratory has designed and built a new power supply to fire laboratory guns in support of armor research. The new power supply is specifically designed to drive a solenoid into a percussion primer or ignite the M52A3B1 electric primer. To reduce power requirements, it uses charged capacitor banks to drive the solenoid or ignite the primer. This report details the design and construction of the power supplies.
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