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[Aeronaut]

JimmyT wrote: Aeronaut,

I’ts already been mentioned (though not in these forums) that as the gigagaus magnetic field decays, it will generate an electromagnetic pulse in the “Blake coil” surrounding the main electrode. This will have to be taken into account in the circuit design, least they be fried. It has also been mentioned that one possible antidote to this problem would be to design the circuit somewhat like an RF circuit. Although this circuit would have to be tunable to the pulse frequency unless that were to remain a constant.

We would have to introduce significant additional inductance for this to work, and I’m not sure that would be desirable.

Jimmy,

Blake Coil has a ring to it. The PLC controller can switch it out of the circuit after around 750 nS, since its low voltage and current. A quick but expensive way to drop in a lot of inductance would be to introduce a Be Trow Coil –> diode –> cap bank and see if we can get more than breakeven before the X-ray conversion.

Tilting the cathodes a few degrees can eliminate the need for the Blake Coil, but will take several experimental base plates to get the angle anywhere near optimum for any particular application.