SPEAR3 LARGE DC MAGNET POWER SUPPLIES

The Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (SSRL) has successfully commissioned SPEAR3, its newly upgraded 3-GeV synchrotron light source. First stored beam occurred December 15, 2003 and 100mA operation was reached on January 20, 2004. This paper describes the specification, design, and performance of the SPEAR3 DC magnet large power supplies (LGPS) that consist of tightly-regulated (better than {+-}10 ppm) current sources ranging from 100A to 225A and output powers ranging from 70kW to 135kW. A total of 6 LGPS are in successful operation and are used to power strings of quadrupoles and sextupoles. The LGPS are isolated by a delta/delta-wye 60Hz step-down transformer that provides power to 2 series-connected chopper stages operating phase-shifted at a switching frequency of 18-kHz to provide for fast output response and high efficiency. Also described are outside procurement aspects, installation, in-house testing, and operation of the power supplies.