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Re: Thyratron pair (was DC Drive)
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Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 20:39:30 -0700
From: randy-at-gte-dot-net
To: Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
Subject: Re: Thyratron pair (was DC Drive)
Tesla List wrote:
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> Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 04:27:12 +0000
> From: "John H. Couture" <couturejh-at-worldnet.att-dot-net>
> To: Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> Subject: Re: Thyratron pair (was DC Drive)
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> At 08:21 PM 10/13/97 +0000, you wrote:
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> >Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 11:53:36 -0500 (CDT)
> >From: Richard Wayne Wall <rwall-at-ix-dot-netcom-dot-com>
> >To: Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> >Subject: Re: Thyratron pair (was DC Drive)
> >
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> >I specified in my post that the driver is not continuous wave, but fast
> >rising pulses with information content (read harmonics) and relatively
> >long periods of quiessence between pulses. The vacuum tubes or IGBTs
> >are driven electronically and not by feed back from the resonator.
> >
> >RWW
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> Richard -
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> Aren't the pulses filtered into continuous sine waves by the inductive
> load? Have you checked the wave at the load with a scope?
>
> John CoutureJohn: I havent checked for other replies to your message as of yet;
I believe what you say must be true, or else the experiment would
fail; unless you fed the secondary a pulse rate at the self-resonant freq
of the "secondary winding" so to speak,
there would be no ringing, and if you did send it something resembling
the rise-time or decay time of a square wave, you can bet on harmonics
from DC to Daylight.
Nonetheless, I still believe that you could successfully feed a tube
whatever waveform you choose, and probably get some interesting and/0r
signifigant results.
Randy