Re: xenon flash tubes as gaps Re: Zener SSTC?

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Original poster: "Christopher Boden" <chrisboden-at-hotmail-dot-com> 

This isn't a flash tube, it's a BIG (1000watt) Xenon Short-Arc lamp used 
for theatre projection. 7518989 is the bulb number. Since it fires below 
15kV we don't worry about it damageing any of the NSTs ot whatnot, but I 
know we won't get max-power from it.

We're testing it right now in the next room with a 6" coil :)




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>From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
>To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
>Subject: Re: xenon flash tubes as gaps Re: Zener SSTC?
>Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:55:40 -0700
>
>Original poster: Matthew Smith <matt-at-kbc-dot-net.au>
>
>Tesla list wrote:
>>Original poster: "Christopher Boden" <chrisboden-at-hotmail-dot-com>
>>We just got a pair donated and I was thinking the same thing. They won't 
>>arc at 10kV, but at 15kV it's a thin arc (much the same as if it were in 
>>free air. The arc lamps are massive, and I was wondering if it would be 
>>possible to make a silent (or much quieter) gap from one. The problem is 
>>it's a fixed-width gap, and I haven't yet come up with how to make that work.
>
>You could always trigger it.  Camera flash tubes tend to have an external
>trigger electrode (piece of foil behind tube).
>
>Cheers
>
>M
>
>--
>Matthew Smith
>Kadina Business Consultancy
>South Australia
>http://www.kbc-dot-net.au
>
>

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