Re: LTSG

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Original poster: "Jason by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <jasonp-at-btinternet-dot-com>

Jim,

Sorry - could've sworn someone told me it used a laser... aah well. A
trigatron you say? it would have to be one heck of a trigatron!!!

Regards,
Jason
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Subject: Re: LTSG


> Original poster: "Jim Lux by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<jimlux-at-earthlink-dot-net>
>
> The Marx in the Deutsches Museum uses a standard trigatron in the bottom
> stage.  No lasers.
>
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> Tesla list wrote:
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> > Original poster: "Jason by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
> <jasonp-at-btinternet-dot-com>
> >
> > Hi Darin,
> >
> > It has been discussed, but I think that it would be impractical. A
nitrogen
> > laser needs rather a lot of power to excite the tube, and is very
> > innefficiemt. It also needs to be quite powerful. The only place that I
can
> > think of that uses a LTSG for any kind of SG use is the marx generator
in
> > the Deutchs Museum (sp?) in Munich, Germany
> >
> > So there you go...
> >
> > Regards,
> > Jason
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> > To: <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> > Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 2:43 AM
> > Subject: LTSG
> >
> > > Original poster: "Darin Willson by way of Terry Fritz
> > <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <darinwil-at-execpc-dot-com>
> > >
> > > Question:
> > > Everyone is trying the triggered SG, has anyone tried
> > > a Laser triggered sparkgap? If I read right, Nitrogen
> > > lasers produce ultraviolet light and are supposed to
> > > be pretty easy to build. Any Ideas?
> > >
> > >
> > >
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