bsneath@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Fri 29/08/08 11:26 PM , jhowson4@xxxxxxxxxxx sent:Is it possible to rectifiy a Huge tesla coil? No reason I was just curious.What about building a rectifier from scratch out of a fluro tube? A 4' long tube should hold off a megavolt or two... It would be a fairly simple task to remove one of the filaments and replace it with a anode plate, then pump it down to a hard vacuum (or abouts). Why go solid state? Although i cant imagine what the response time on something like that would be... just a thought...
In fact, the book by Craggs & Meek has a photograph of a large voltage multiplier with, as I recall, 600kV/tube. They're continuously pumped.
There were also various and sundry X-ray machines made with 1MV scale potentials, but in some cases, they didn't actually have a rectifier. They just used the fact that a X-ray tube is unidirectional (sort of like how the voltage doubler in a microwave oven uses the fact that the magnetron is a diode)
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