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Re: Parallel resonant DRSSTC (long)
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- Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 21:48:38 -0700
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Original poster: Ed Phillips <evp@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Tesla list wrote:
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> Original poster: "Steve Conner" <steve.conner@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> >>start thinking Chain Home radar transmitter
> >Which probably used a rotary spark gap as a modulator?
>
> http://www.radarpages.co.uk/mob/ch/chainhome6.htm
> I think it was actually lower level modulated and the (36,000 volt) B+
> supply was on all the time. This is a very old radar system from the 1930s,
> before magnetrons and the like were developed. I chose it as an example
> because it has the same peak power as Steve's DRSSTC-II 8)
>
> Steve C.
I don't think the British made much use of spark-gap modulators,
particularly that early in the game.
Ed