Control apparatus for supplying operating potentials

There is disclosed a system for supplying operating potentials which is particularly useful with load devices wherein at least two transversely oriented conductors are dielectrically isolated from a gaseous discharge medium between the conductors. The system utilizes wave form generators, each having at least one output transistor. Novel transformer-diode clamping means are provided to reverse bias the collector-base junctions of the output transistors, novel capacitive driving means are used for the transistors, and the control of the transistors with respect to each other is coordinated to provide a system which produces a more effective wave form, the wave form in the embodiment shown being used as a sustaining voltage for cells in a gas discharge display/memory panel.