ОСОБЛИВОСТІ ПОБУДОВИ СИСТЕМИ ЕЛЕКТРОЖИВЛЕННЯ ІНВЕРСНОЇ МАГНЕТРОННОЇ РОЗПОРОШУВАЛЬНОЇ СИСТЕМИ ДЛЯ ФОРМУВАННЯ БАГАТОКОМПОНЕНТНИХ ПОКРИТТІВ (СПОСІБ УПРАВЛІННЯ ПРОЦЕСОМ РОЗПОРОШЕННЯ ТА ЙОГО ПРАКТИЧНА РЕАЛІЗАЦІЯ)

It's shown the necessity to use functional coatings in engineering, which can be formed in many layers and contain a number of components what based on the analysis of literature data about ways to ensure the required resource of machine parts and mechanisms. Existing technologies and the corresponding equipment require the prefabricating of the alloys which the coatings are formed. This significantly limits the control of the coatings' composition. It's shown the advantage of ion-plasma technologies developed at National Aerospace University "Kharkiv Aviation Institute" over the existing technologies. In particular, due to the spraying of a large number of cathodes-targets, these technologies allow the formation of multicomponent coatings of almost any composition. When implementing ion-plasma technology for the formation of coatings, a decisive role plays the generator of the flow of particles of the coating material. It has been proposed to supply voltage to each generator element through a chain of resistors, the total resistance of which is regulated by the control system of the corresponding program to improve the power supply system of such a generator. Such an approach to the improvement of the power supply system of the technological generator of the coating material is implemented in the developed laboratory experimental-industrial process plant for the formation of a model coating of tungsten carbide. It was considered two possible schemes for creating resistive chains with regulated resistance. It was selected the scheme, which consists of a smaller number of elements. The important role of any resistive chain in the operation of the technological generator control system has been determined. It was proposed the optimal choice of the nominal values of the resistors included in the chain. The optimal choice of the nominal values of the resistors included in the chain has been proposed. The conducted analysis of experimental data carried out by the authors suggests that each such chain should have individual features, in particular, the boundaries and the step of resistance, the maximum power of heat losses. These and other parameters are usually determined experimentally.