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Thyratron, you say?

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JohnR

Thyratron, you say?
« on: 21 Jun 2010, 10:02 am »
Never heard of them before. So imagine my surprise at finding a pack of them (2d21) in my workshop earlier today -

  http://www.r-type.org/exhib/aad0101.htm

After some puzzling - why on earth would I want the tube equivalent of an SCR? - I finally found out why I have them: you can use them to make a voltage-controlled oscillator for music synthesis:

  http://www.cgs.synth.net/tube/vco.html

Anyone else here ever wanted to make a modular music synthesizer? Imagine a rack of tube modules... You can buy this cool stuff too - check out http://www.metasonix.com - lots of audio samples there, some of it's pretty wild :)


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peranders

Re: Thyratron, you say?
« Reply #1 on: 19 Aug 2010, 07:44 pm »

25kV! This is a thyratron for generating megawatt radar pulses. Something for the heavy dudes. :singing:
« Last Edit: 20 Aug 2010, 04:27 am by peranders »
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eclein

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Re: Thyratron, you say?
« Reply #2 on: 19 Aug 2010, 08:10 pm »
Have you heard the drum machine? I bet that is just really sweet!!
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sts9fan

Re: Thyratron, you say?
« Reply #3 on: 20 Aug 2010, 01:38 pm »
I want to build one!
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