FIELD: test engineering.
SUBSTANCE: power of the primary arc discharge, burning in the gap between the electrodes, is carried out using the voltage equal to the voltage of the on-board cable network of the spacecraft, and initiation of the discharge is carried out by electrical breakdown of the gap with high-voltage potential impulse, the duration of which does not exceed the time of passage by the plasma front of the distance from the site of initiation of discharge to the extreme point of the electrodes, facing the test element.
EFFECT: increase in reliability of testing of the elements of communications-electronics equipment to resistance to arcing when failure of electrical radio engineering product inside the communications-electronics equipment, which leads to initiation of the primary arc discharge, and can lead to secondary self-sustaining arcs when insufficient resistance of the test element of the equipment.
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