Re: Tube question

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• Subject: Re: Tube question
• From: bigr <bigr-at-teleport-dot-com>
• Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 23:15:48 -0700

>It's now really an irrelavant point now since someone else bought them at the
>auction, but would they have been good for TC work?
>
Thyratrons are supposedly too slow to work as switches of AC much beyond
1000hz or so- but I cannot personally vouch for this.  Tell me that
something is impossible to do and ....   Its not the turn-on time, but the
turn-off recovery time which is to blame.  Then once turned on Thyratron
acts like an SCR and current doesn't stop until applied voltage goes to
zero.

There is a device called the hydrogen thyratron that can be used for
switching short pulses, but I have never seen one on the surplus market.

Best regards, Rob.

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