AbstractTo investigate properties of superconducting R&D conductors and coils for the Large Helical Device (LHD), a dc 75 kA power supply system which consists of three 25 kA unit banks has been designed and constructed. One unit bank has two double-star-rectifier connections with the inter-phase reactors. The algorithm of the digital feedback control system is installed in each unit bank. In this algorithm, each 6 phase is operated independently on the process of averaging, proportioning and integrating. The experiments of several short samples and one of the R&D coils have been done under the maximum ramp rate of the power supply, 999 A/s per unit. It is confirmed that the measured current stability is less than ±0.75%, and the deviation between a set value and an output value of the load current is less than ±1% under the short circuit test.
Short sample tests of aluminum-stabilized superconductors for Large Helical Device