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TY - CONF AU - Solans, P. AU - Balboa, J.V. AU - Bravo, B. AU - Fernández, I. AU - Iriarte, D. AU - Lluch, J. AU - Mellado, A. AU - Ocampo, J.R. AU - Pérez, F. AU - Rosa, C. AU - Salom, A. AU - Sierra, F. AU - Ugarte, E. ED - Boland, Mark ED - Tanaka, Hitoshi ED - Button, David ED - Dowd, Rohan ED - Schaa, Volker RW ED - Tan, Eugene TI - New 50 KW SSPA Transmitter for the ALBA Booster J2 - Proc. of IPAC2019, Melbourne, Australia, 19-24 May 2019 CY - Melbourne, Australia T2 - International Particle Accelerator Conference T3 - 10 LA - english AB - ALBA is a 3th generation 3 GeV synchrotron light source located in Barcelona and operating with users since May 2012. The IOT based transmitter for the booster cavity has been replaced by a Solid State Power Amplifier (SSPA) of 50 kW at 500 MHz in August 2018. The new transmitter is made of 96 active devices, which are divided in 12 modules of 8 transistors each one. The modules are combined in groups of four using the Gysel topology and two hybrid combiners are used for the final combining stage. The design allows the transmitter to provide enough power even when multiple transistor fails occur, in the same module or in different ones, and it also presents power supplies redundancy. These modules can be hot swapped, i.e., the module can be replaced by a spare at any time, even when the transmitter is providing power without affecting the operation. After two months of operation, the transmitter fulfills very well the design specifications regarding power, efficiency and gain; and although minor problems have arisen due to infant mortality in some components, the operation of the transmitter has never been affected due to the high redundancy. PB - JACoW Publishing CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 4237 EP - 4239 KW - operation KW - booster KW - ISOL KW - synchrotron KW - cavity DA - 2019/06 PY - 2019 SN - 978-3-95450-208-0 DO - DOI: 10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2019-THPTS058 UR - http://jacow.org/ipac2019/papers/thpts058.pdf ER -