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Re: Dump the RSG!
From: David Huffman[SMTP:huffman-at-FNAL.GOV]
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 1997 8:39 AM
To: Tesla List
Subject: Re: Dump the RSG!
What if the coronatron was run in pulsed mode? Has it been and does it look
like a RSG at the same BPS? Isn't the whole idea here to quench at the first
null to keep the energy in the secondary?
Dave Huffman
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>From: richard hull[SMTP:rhull-at-richmond.infi-dot-net]
>Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 1997 5:44 PM
>To: Tesla List
>Subject: Re: Dump the RSG!
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>At 08:47 PM 11/4/97 -0600, you wrote:
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>>From: Jeff W. Parisse[SMTP:jparisse-at-ddlabs-dot-com]
>>Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 1997 11:56 AM
>>To: Tesla List
>>Subject: Re: Dump the RSG!
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>>Richard,
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>>I've got a pair of Seimens Triodes that are rated at 75kV -at- 2A -at- 50kHz.
>>An engineer at Seimens says that they'll run at twice the frequency and
half
>>voltage with no problem.
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>>These, of course, would make a nice tube coil (i.e. CW grid excitation via
a
>>primary feedback coil) but you are talking about using a device as a
switch
>>(i.e. short pulse grid excitation).
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>Rob Stephens has the largest tube coil I have ever heard of (the
coronatron-
>10KW) and it is nice, but the RF burns touching anything within meters are
>severe. Most tube coils are basically just big oscillators with more or
>less CW performance, tremendous radiation and very small sparks for the
KWH.
>It is what you want that makes the difference. Big tubes make for big open
>ended hertzian radiators.
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>Richard Hull, TCBOR
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