OT Klystron [was Re: [sdiy] Tube ring mod]

[The Peasant]

Quoting Tim Ressel <madhun2001 at yahoo.com>:

> 
> --- The Peasant <epeasant at telusplanet.net> wrote:
> > We pulse them up to 110KV @ 100A, fun stuff! Then we
> > use 
> > the RF output to excite the actual accelerating
> > waveguide, 
> > which is basically a large tube with tuned RF
> > cavities, 
> > 2.998 gigahertz. Anyone for a 22 MeV electron beam?
> > (That's 
> > 22 million volts, folks, please stand back) How
> > about 18 
> > MeV of photon (gamma) radiation?
> 
> Yes, yes, but what do they sould like??  ;-)
> 
Pulsed at 180 or 360 Hz, digitally regulated by dropping 
pulses, it sounds kind of like a bass drone with lots of 
harmonic content.

Normally you don't want to hear this sound, it means you 
are being treated for cancer. :-(

Take care,
Doug
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