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Re: tube advice needed

Subject:       Re: tube advice needed
       Date:   Tue, 27 May 1997 07:30:54 -0700
       From:   gene lambert <tesla-at-cyberverse-dot-com>
Organization:  Tesla Electric, LTD
         To:   Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
        CC:    tesla-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com
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Tesla List wrote:
> 
> Subject:  Re: tube advice needed
>   Date:   Mon, 26 May 1997 13:47:30 -0400 (EDT)
>   From:   richard hull <rhull-at-richmond.infi-dot-net>
>     To:   Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> 
> At 06:04 PM 5/25/97 -0500, you wrote:
> >Subject:      Re: tube advice needed
> >       Date:  Thu, 22 May 1997 20:09:20 -0700
> >       From:  gene lambert <tesla-at-cyberverse-dot-com>
> >Organization: Tesla Electric, LTD
> >         To:  Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> >        CC:   tesla-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com
> snip
> 
> >> Richard Hull has done some preliminary work with hydrogen
> >> thyratrons which he has posted on this list in the past, and some
> >> of my comments above are based on his work.  Perhaps Richard
> >> will present his thoughts on the matter.  I seem to remember reading
> >> that others have also done some thyratron experiments, but don't
> >> remember the details.
> >>
> >> Wish I could be of more help,
> >>
> >> John Freau
> >
> >John, you have helped quite a bit, thank you.
> >Richard, do you have anything to offer? do I need two CX 1140's?
> >
> >Gene Lambert
> >
> >Guys,
> 
> Sorry about the delay in responding, but I have been outta' town to a
> big
> Hamfest gettin' all th' goodies.
> 
> The H2 Thyratrons will create a coil of sorts but with a 1-2usec on time
> for
> high currents will only allow the main discharge and thus no power
> oscillations within the primary (two short a dwell time.)  The result is
> more like a normal tube coil.  The Max Q of the system is fully
> developed as
> I can count a beautiful 52 cycle ring down of the system. (there is just
> no
> power in it though!!!)  Keeping the Thyratrons' grid hot (positive) will
> attempt reverse conduction and sparks fly in the tube as all sort of
> ablation takes place.  Two phased hydrogen Thyratrons back to back seem
> interesting, but I have had no time to investigate further due to work
> at my
> real job.
> 
> Richard Hull, TCBOR

Thanks Richard, for the report on the hydrogen thyratron. I guess I will
shelve my CX 1140 unless I can get another, AND, someone says that they
work good.

Gene Lambert