Re: Hydrogen Spark Gaps

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• Subject: Re: Hydrogen Spark Gaps
• From: "R M Craven" <craven-at-globalnet.co.uk> (by way of Terry Fritz <terryf-at-verinet-dot-com>)
• Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 17:11:48 -0600
• Approved: terryf-at-verinet-dot-com

>Original Poster: "Payne, Will E" <will.e.payne-at-lmco-dot-com>
>
>We used cold-cathode hydrogen thyratrons for dumping Blumlein PFNs into
>lasers.  Thay are sealed units, a ceramic can about twice the thickness of
a
>hockey puck with metal flanges.  A trigger electrode goes into the center
of
>the bottom flange.  It is necessary to regulate the internal hydrogen
>pressure by including an internal reservoir usually a supply of metal
>hydride.  We bought ours from EG&G, and even after the trigger was
destroyed
>and it was useless as a triggered thyratron, it still makes a fine static


It sounds like a trigatron, not a thyratron


Richard Craven, Malvern, England

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