Re: Behlke.de

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Original poster: "Stephen Conner by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <steve-at-scopeboy-dot-com>

At 07:58 09/05/03 -0600, you wrote:
>Original poster: "Greg Leyh by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" 
><lod-at-pacbell-dot-net>
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>A 600A brick will typically exhibit about 40 to 60nH of stray inductance.
>Not a factor in TC work, really.

Well I guess it depends on _where_ that stray inductance is within the 
brick... if it were in the gate/emitter circuit it would be a total disaster :(

>Do you know someone at Behlke, by chance?  Could you ask them to check
>their messages?  ^_^

unfortunately not... I'm just interested in their scary fast HV switches 
same as you. Not that I want to buy any, but I want to figure out how they 
work. Plus I know enough German to read the stuff on their website.


>On a semi-related note, it appears that laser-triggered silicon can't
>quite be made fast enough for TC work, even at Fo = 7kHz.

Bummer! I guess I'll pass on that 300kV laser triggered thyristor stack I 
saw on EBay then ;D

Steve C.