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Re: explosive hydroforming for toroids and spheres
From: D.C. Cox[SMTP:DR.RESONANCE-at-next-wave-dot-net]
Sent: Sunday, December 07, 1997 2:22 AM
To: Tesla List
Subject: Re: explosive hydroforming for toroids and spheres
to: Bill & Ed
Either of you guys happen to have an ISBN number for that book "High Power
Switching"??? Publisher and/or date??
DR.RESONANCE-at-next-wave-dot-net
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> From: Bill Lemieux[SMTP:gomez-at-netherworld-dot-com]
> Sent: Friday, December 05, 1997 4:38 PM
> To: Tesla List
> Subject: Re: explosive hydroforming for toroids and spheres
>
> Tesla List wrote:
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> > From: Edward V. Phillips[SMTP:ed-at-alumni.caltech.edu]
>
> > in the water to form the pressure. Never saw the inside of the
> > power supply for the thing, b ut it was a cube about six feet on
> > the side, so it could have held a lot of pretty big capacitors.
>
> Depends on what you consider "a lot" and "pretty big". :-)
>
> > The thing must have used a relay of some kind to hook the charged
> > capacitors to the spark gap, as there was a big flash and loud
> > sound from the inside of the PS when they fired the sparks.
>
> I expect they were using a triggered spark gap switch, probably a
> railgap switch, since this was used repetively in an industrial setting,
> and you say you saw the flash. Even one of Ross Engineering's big
> pulse-service relays wouldn't last a week, and Ignitrons usually have
> metal cans, so you wouldn't see the flash.
>
> If anyone can track down a copy of a very expensive book, you might
> find the work "High Power Switching" by Ihor Vitkovitski amusing, if
> not downright terrifying.
>
> He defines "high power" as single pulse discharges in the 10!9 (billion)
> watts or more. The applications are things like single pulse particle
> beam nuke simulators, railguns, really big e-beam exciters for excimer
> lasers, and the like.
>
> Mandatory reading for anyone who is interested in doing high-power
> pulse-discharge work, but expensive- expect to pay $70 for it if you
> can find it, and it's not even that large a book- small print run!
>
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