Re: ignitron tubes

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• Subject: Re: ignitron tubes
• From: Richard Wayne Wall <rwall-at-ix-dot-netcom-dot-com>
• Date: Sun, 30 Jun 1996 09:54:41 -0700

You wrote: 
>
>>From ed-at-alumni.caltech.eduThu Jun 27 21:40:07 1996
>Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 16:33:03 -0700 (PDT)
>From: "Edward V. Phillips" <ed-at-alumni.caltech.edu>
>To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
>Subject: Re: ignitron tubes
>
>Re: Hard tube Tesla coil drivers
>	You probably don't need the pulser for the pulsed
>oscillator.  Early triode transmitters were almost all
>"squegging" or blocking oscillators which turned themselves
>off after a relatively short pulse.  Have more dope on the
>subject for those who are interested.  Secret is very high
>voltage (10 kV+), tube with good emission, and power supply
>with large output capacitance.  I don't think any of these
>are hard to get.  Certainly a neon transformer could be 
>rectified (string of 1N4007's) should work fine.
>Ed Phillips
>

6/30/96

Ed,

I'm very, very interested.  Please provide more dope on the subject.

RWW

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