Bang energy vs. streamer length measurements

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Original poster: Marco.Denicolai-at-tellabs-dot-com 

Hello all,

I have completed the first set of measurements on Thor and I was
thinking to share with you my findings.

I have changed the bang energy (primary capacitor voltage), the RSG
rotating rate and the grounded target distance. For each position I have
measured "how well" the target was reached. In particular I was able to:

- document how the streamer grows length from bang to bang
- model the hit probability with a Weibull distribution
- show that a change in the RSG rotating rate DOESN'T influence the
streamer length

Read the whole story (includes diagrams and data) at:

http://www.iki.fi/dncmrc/meas/performance.htm

My "performance" measurement method offers a very good repeatibility and
can be easily used with any SSTC. It is very easy to test a supposed
performance improvements by using it.
I hope to receive some feedback also on it, considering also the recent
debate about the "energy and power" stuff.

Suggestions, questions, comments and corrections are all welcome.

Best Regards

P.S: Coming next -> New measurements with RSG gap amount reduced from 4
to 2. Any improvements? We'll see...




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