Re: Marx generator (fwd)

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Original poster: Steven Roys <sroys@xxxxxxxxxx>



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Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 20:49:03 +0000
From: Mike Harrison <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: Marx generator (fwd)

>Getting all the 
>gaps to fire together is real important, so you want a good optical path 
>from the first gap (which can be slightly smaller, so it fires first) to 
>all the rest. The strong UV from the spark on the first gap helps breakdown 
>the rest of the gaps.

I'm not at all convinced that UV is of any help for the sort of scale of marxgens we are talking
about.