Re: Marx generator (fwd)

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Original poster: Steven Roys <sroys@xxxxxxxxxx>



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Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 10:27:43 -0700
From: Gomez Addams <gomez@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: Marx generator (fwd)


On Dec 13, 2005, at 8:56 AM, High Voltage list wrote:

> Original poster: Steven Roys <sroys@xxxxxxxxxx>
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> Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 20:49:03 +0000
> From: Mike Harrison <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: High Voltage list <hvlist@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: Marx generator (fwd)
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>> Getting all the
>> gaps to fire together is real important, so you want a good optical 
>> path
>> from the first gap (which can be slightly smaller, so it fires first) 
>> to
>> all the rest. The strong UV from the spark on the first gap helps 
>> breakdown
>> the rest of the gaps.
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> I'm not at all convinced that UV is of any help for the sort of scale 
> of marxgens we are talking
> about.

I've read white papers which suggest otherwise.