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trigger a Marx gen or a CW multiplier MANUALLY

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Fabi
Mon Dec 13 2010, 10:38AM Print
Fabi Registered Member #3510 Joined: Mon Dec 13 2010, 08:31AM
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Hey guys,

hope i'm in the right forum.

So all what i wanted to ask is how i can trigger a marx gen or CW discharge.
So that when the caps are loaded the gen shouldn't discharge automatically.
It should discharge when i press the "trigger" button.
Can I use a Thyratron tube for that?

Ps. I want to build an X-ray flash device which should not produce x-rays continously.

regs from
Stuttgart, Germany
Fabian Schmidt
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cedric
Mon Dec 13 2010, 01:08PM
cedric Registered Member #2941 Joined: Fri Jun 25 2010, 08:08AM
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you just have to make sure that all the gap (for a marx)have a break down voltage higher than the loading one ,after a system to reduce the first gap sises would be enough to manually trigger it,unless you want to make a fancy noiseless marx you don't need thyratron for that ,on a properly tune marx a triggered spark gap for the first gap work fine...
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Fabi
Mon Dec 13 2010, 02:21PM
Fabi Registered Member #3510 Joined: Mon Dec 13 2010, 08:31AM
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Ok
Thank you for your answer

My parts should reach me tomorrow so then i can start to build that thing.

regs
FS
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Proud Mary
Mon Dec 13 2010, 03:01PM
Proud Mary Registered Member #543 Joined: Tue Feb 20 2007, 04:26PM
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Hi there, Fabian,

it's not necessary to use a Marx generator to initiate a vacuum discharge. A single capacitor charged to a suitably high voltage will start a 'flash' discharge with an X-ray tube of the right geometry i.e. a needle point cathode and a flat plate anode, or a hollow cathode Grimm-type discharge chamber.

There's a paper with lots of helpful practical details here:

Link2

Stella

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Fabi
Mon Dec 13 2010, 03:19PM
Fabi Registered Member #3510 Joined: Mon Dec 13 2010, 08:31AM
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thank you

is anywherw a shematic?


btw. i want to drive the tube at least at 70 kV DC

better would be triggered pulses with around 100 kV

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radhoo
Mon Dec 13 2010, 04:46PM
radhoo Registered Member #1938 Joined: Sun Jan 25 2009, 12:44PM
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In case you still want to trigger your Marx, make sure the first spark-gap is big enough, so that no spark will initiate (adjust it per your supply), then either you mechanically bring closer the two electrodes or use a flash-like system with a third electrode to initiate the first discharge.
The other spark gaps are not that important, as once the spark breaks the first gap, it will have sufficient voltage from the other caps to cover the air distance and jump further.
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Proud Mary
Mon Dec 13 2010, 06:29PM
Proud Mary Registered Member #543 Joined: Tue Feb 20 2007, 04:26PM
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Fabi wrote ...

thank you

is anywherw a shematic?


btw. i want to drive the tube at least at 70 kV DC

better would be triggered pulses with around 100 kV

Golly, Fabi, it doesn't take the brains of an archbishop to imagine the circuit diagram! First you charge up a capacitor to your chosen voltage. Then, when it is charged, you discharge it through the X-ray tube. That is all there is to do, and why the electrode geometry of flash x-ray tubes is completely different.

Klar? smile

How will you measure nanosecond X-ray brusts?
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Fabi
Mon Dec 13 2010, 07:22PM
Fabi Registered Member #3510 Joined: Mon Dec 13 2010, 08:31AM
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oh thank you

now i've got it

(I'm learning still english) It's not always easy to unserstand more complicaed things like this; the first time.
sorry for that ;)

So you think about a kind of a one-stage-marx generator, right?

I measure the x-ay bursts with a photodiode.

ps: is it easyer/more effective to drive 2 ignition coils antiparallel and add a fullwave rectifier?

FS
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Proud Mary
Mon Dec 13 2010, 07:46PM
Proud Mary Registered Member #543 Joined: Tue Feb 20 2007, 04:26PM
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It's best to use DC - but you can generate X-rays with AC too - in "self-rectifying" mode.

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klugesmith
Mon Dec 13 2010, 07:54PM
klugesmith Registered Member #2099 Joined: Wed Apr 29 2009, 12:22AM
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radhoo wrote ...

In case you still want to trigger your Marx, make sure the first spark-gap is big enough, so that no spark will initiate (adjust it per your supply), then either you mechanically bring closer the two electrodes or use a flash-like system with a third electrode to initiate the first discharge.
The other spark gaps are not that important, as once the spark breaks the first gap, it will have sufficient voltage from the other caps to cover the air distance and jump further.
Spontaneous (or triggered) discharge of a Marx bank could begin with -any- of the spark gaps.
Which one fires first depends on the matching of the gaps,
and the skew in capacitor charging voltages because of RC delays in the charging ladder.
There might be a risetime benefit if a gap in the middle is first to fire.

[edit] If gap #1 is designed to fire first, not because it has a lower breakdown voltage but only because its capacitor charges significantly ahead of the others, then all the other capacitors are under-utilized.


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