Issues with High Volatage Measurement and its Mitigation

Abstract

A measuring system which can measure high voltage impulses is been implemented using resistive and capacitive divider network. The simulation of this resistive divider is been done in MATLAB Software with the ten stage Marx circuit and results are calculated which are then matched with both the capacitive divider network and the resistive divider network. The voltage values of resistive divider and capacitive divider are calculated and compared. It is seen that the resistive divider network has excellent response characteristics as compared to capacitive divider network. The experimental result shows that it can measure the voltage quantities up to 5000V, which has pulse width of $5\mu$ -sec sheet.