Re: Triggered Spark Gaps - Why Not?

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• Subject: Re: Triggered Spark Gaps - Why Not?
• From: Bert Hickman <bert.hickman-at-aquila-dot-com> (by way of Terry Fritz <terryf-at-verinet-dot-com>)
• Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 06:30:19 -0700
• Approved: terryf-at-verinet-dot-com

Tesla List wrote:
> 
> Original Poster: "R M Craven" <craven-at-globalnet.co.uk>
> 
> Richard Hull replied to Gavin Hubbard:
> 
> <SNIP>
> 
> >The more elaborate the gap, the more time is spent on an area which
> probalby
> >won't prove all that much better than current solutions and definitely many
> >times more expensive.  High power pulsed lasers are hard pressed to shoot
> 200+
> >times per second and chopped powerful CW lasers are a horrendous expense.
> >
> >Richard Hull, TCBOR
> 
> Let's not forget that several tens or hundreds of  stored joules in a pulse
> excited laser system is several times the stored energy in the TC primary
> itself. You are using more power to trigger the spark gap than you are
> switching in the gap itself!
> 
> As it has been pointed out, LTGs and similar tricky gaps are NOT what we
> should be discussing. Simple rail gaps, trigatrons etc. are within our realm
> to experiment with.
> 
> Reading list: Pulse Generators by Glasoe and Lebacqz; High Power Electronics
> by Sargeant and Dollinger; High Speed Switching by Frungel; High Power
> Switching by Vitkovitsky(sp?). These cover pretty well everything, so let's
> not re-invent the wheel :)
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Richard Craven, Malvern, England

Agree 100%, Richard(s)!

Also, add to the list of excellent resources, the following in-print
book: Gerhard Schaefer, "Gas Discharge Closing Switches
(Advances in Pulsed Power Technology, V2)", Plenum, 1991, 569pp - a
GREAT modern book on the subject!

-- Bert --

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