Reply To: Fantastic news.

[Pete Keech]

The relative heights of the posts and cylinder portion of the crown design are variable – level with the plasmoid (top of anode) & even below a little bit, you would have posts, just like in the existing design, so absorption of x-rays would be no different there. Lower, where the cylinder is, the x-ray intensity would be diminished, so that shouldn’t be a problem. In fact, with the support of the cylinder, you can even narrow the posts further (as the posts would be shorter), so absorption could be less in that region. A cylinder in general could be thinner than the existing cathodes, so even that part could likely absorb less than the existing cathode posts, even if it completely surrounds the whole thing.