Meet PUFFLING: our new UROP-built calibration pulser

UROP student Osahon Odiase has recently finished developing PUFFLING––a 30kV calibration pulser––with the help of the PUFFIN team. We did our first fire of PUFFLING on August 2nd, 2023, where we conducted some capacitor tests and calibrated custom-made B-dots and Rogowski coils. The team will continue to use the calibration pulser to test and calibrate diagnostics for PUFFIN.

The PUFFLING pulser, mid-fire. Through the viewing window, you can see a spark from the spark gap as the machine fires.

Inside PUFFLING, there is a bank of capacitors, connected to a high voltage plate where the spark gap and terminals sit.

The PUFFLING pulser team stood next to the completed pulser.