Re: H2 thyratron

To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: Re: H2 thyratron
From: Richard Hull <hullr-at-whitlock-dot-com>
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 09:15:03 -0700

Tesla List wrote:
> 
> >From liam-at-uniserve-dot-comThu Aug 29 22:39:05 1996
> Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 16:35:28 -0700 (PDT)
> From: LIAM CRAWFORD <liam-at-uniserve-dot-com>
> To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> Subject: Re: H2 thyratron
> 
> At 10:38 PM 28/08/96 -0600, you wrote:
> >From SSNSanders-at-aol-dot-comWed Aug 28 22:34:28 1996
> >Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 15:30:00 -0400
> >From: SSNSanders-at-aol-dot-com
> >To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> >Subject: Re: H2 thyratron
> >
> >Tell me what theese devices are. What do they do? Ive seen them for sale at
> >surplus places.   Steve
> 
> thyratrons are electronic tubes that were used before high power silicone
> rectifiers replaced them .
> they are electronic switches for switching high voltages !
> 
> hope this helps
> regards liam


 Liam, Steve

Solid state devices still can't do what H2 Thyratron can do at their 
power level even to this day.  Tubes (hollow state devices, glow FETS, 
Fire bottles) still hang on when the goin' gets tough or wierd as few 
solid state devices can handle high voltage and high current in the 
switching range of nanoseconds.

Richad Hull, TCBOR