Re: Marx generator (fwd)

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Original poster: Steven Roys <sroys@xxxxxxxxxx>



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Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 18:08:24 +0000
From: GEORGE STEIN <afa2fg@xxxxxxx>
To: hvlist@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Marx generator (fwd)


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Could some of the currently available UV LED's be used to trigger the 
gaps??? Or is the required amount of UV radiation very high compared to the 
amount emitted by an LED??

George Stein
Bedford, Va.


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>Another trick in Marx bank design is to ensure that all the spark gaps
>have a clear "view" of each other (spark area to spark area), such that
>none of the spark gap electrodes "shadow" any of the spark area of an
>adjacent spark gap.  This provides for UV illumination from a gap to
>partially pre-ionize the next gap, and has been shown to dramatically
>reduce the erection time of a Marx bank, as well as to improve the
>consistency of erection times from shot to shot (jitter).
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