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Re: Vacume Tubes



Tesla List wrote:
> 
> >From gowin-at-epic-1.nwscc.sea06.navy.milFri Sep 27 22:20:26 1996
> Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 09:58:08 -0500
> From: Dan Gowin <gowin-at-epic-1.nwscc.sea06.navy.mil>
> To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> Subject: Vacume Tubes
> 
> A Question for Richard Hull.
> 
> Richard,
>         One of our junior engineers asked an interesting question
> that maybe you have some thoughts on. Could a picture tube be used
> in Tesla operation? We have a number of obsolete Monochrome monitors
> around here that we are currently throwing away. And, this is such
> a waste of good High Voltage Tubes, that maybe another use could be
> found for these devices.
> 

<<SNIP>>

> Big Red, HV Capacitors. I Burned them up.
> D. Gowin


Dan -

I wonder if you could use the electron gun as a mini-accelerator. I read
somewhere years ago that electron-gun tubes could be used to 'pump'
VanDeGraff generators...If you didn't use a whole lot of HV on the
second anode, the electrons would 'hang around', and induce (influence?)
a 'mirror' charge on the outer surface of the glass face. Hmmmm.

- Brent