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    A thyratron is a type of gas-filled tube used as a high-power electrical switch and controlled rectifier. Thyratrons can handle much greater currents than...
    12 KB (1,479 words) - 21:05, 10 May 2024
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    lamps, and neon lights. Specialized gas-filled tubes such as krytrons, thyratrons, and ignitrons are used as switching devices in electric devices. The...
    27 KB (3,400 words) - 13:22, 21 May 2024
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    hobbyists had built CD ignitions throughout the 1950s using thyratrons. However, thyratrons were unsuitable for use in automobiles for two reasons. They...
    17 KB (2,627 words) - 15:16, 17 February 2024
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    applied to AC voltages. It works by modulating a thyristor, SCR, triac, thyratron, or other such gated diode-like devices into and out of conduction at...
    7 KB (949 words) - 00:55, 11 April 2024
  • circuits are frequently implemented using a thyristor, TRIAC, trisil or thyratron as the shorting device. Once triggered, they depend on the current-limiting...
    6 KB (772 words) - 05:49, 29 May 2024
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    triode thyratron, one starter electrode, may need illumination for proper operation if not radioactively primed U – Low-power tetrode thyratron, may mean:...
    329 KB (40,538 words) - 17:08, 5 July 2024
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    an IEEE Historic Milestone. An earlier gas-filled tube device called a thyratron provided a similar electronic switching capability, where a small control...
    27 KB (3,349 words) - 07:32, 24 June 2024
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    oscillators often used a negative resistance device with hysteresis such as a thyratron tube, neon lamp, or unijunction transistor, however today they are more...
    26 KB (3,019 words) - 00:29, 9 June 2024
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    intended for use as a very high-speed switch, somewhat similar to the thyratron. It consists of a sealed glass tube with four electrodes. A small triggering...
    16 KB (2,003 words) - 17:04, 14 May 2024
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    object, then it triggered the fourth tube – a gas-filled thyratron. Upon being triggered, the thyratron conducted a large current that set off the electrical...
    49 KB (6,135 words) - 09:47, 24 June 2024
  • Sump, or Suction (Valve) SOTF - Switch On To Fault T - Transformer or Thyratron TD - Time Delay TDC - Time-Delay Closing Contact TDDO - Time Delayed Relay...
    13 KB (1,704 words) - 06:05, 19 April 2024
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    Crossatron Dekatron Ignitron Krytron Mercury-arc valve Neon lamp Nixie tube Thyratron Trigatron Voltage-regulator tube Adjustable Potentiometer digital Variable...
    100 KB (11,315 words) - 06:42, 15 July 2024
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    cold-cathode switching tube were developed, including various types of thyratron, the krytron, cold-cathode displays (Nixie tube) and others. Voltage regulator...
    12 KB (1,507 words) - 13:03, 14 November 2023
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    phosphored-thyratron matrix, as a stackable 625-color RGBA pixel for large video graphics arrays. Multiple-cathode and/or anode glow thyratrons called Dekatrons...
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  • the standby power is approximately one order of magnitude lower than in thyratrons. However, pseudospark switches have undesired plasma phenomena at low...
    7 KB (778 words) - 13:37, 27 January 2024
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    Crossatron Dekatron Ignitron Krytron Mercury-arc valve Neon lamp Nixie tube Thyratron Trigatron Voltage-regulator tube Adjustable Potentiometer digital Variable...
    54 KB (6,229 words) - 13:19, 9 July 2024
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    Crossatron Dekatron Ignitron Krytron Mercury-arc valve Neon lamp Nixie tube Thyratron Trigatron Voltage-regulator tube Adjustable Potentiometer digital Variable...
    95 KB (9,900 words) - 01:03, 1 July 2024
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    Thyratron Triggered spark gap Z Pulsed Power Facility, "Z machine" ABB Pulsed Power Manufacturer of semiconductor-based replacements for thyratrons "Pulsed...
    3 KB (292 words) - 04:52, 7 July 2024
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    Crossatron Dekatron Ignitron Krytron Mercury-arc valve Neon lamp Nixie tube Thyratron Trigatron Voltage-regulator tube Adjustable Potentiometer digital Variable...
    64 KB (8,948 words) - 12:17, 3 July 2024
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    idea that the one to two thousand thermionic valves (vacuum tubes and thyratrons) proposed, could work together reliably, was greeted with great scepticism...
    66 KB (7,148 words) - 13:05, 3 July 2024
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