[sdiy] Re: OT Klystron

[Magnus Danielson]

From: Tom Arnold <xyzzy at sysabend.org>
Subject: Re: OT Klystron [was Re: [sdiy] Tube ring mod]
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 13:33:46 -0700

> On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 11:44:28AM -0700, The Peasant 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?
> 
> Sounds like my old job at CEBAF, except it was a 4 GeV beam...
> 
> There are so many ways to die working at a Physics lab!  If you dont
> get accidently sliced in half because a steering magnetic fails, maybe
> the 170,000 litres of liquid helium will take away all your oxygen, or maybe
> the liquid nitrogen will, or maybe one of the Physicists will put some tape
> over a kill switch so he can run the vertical test chamber without the
> 30ton lead shield over top and you just get microwaved.
> 
> On the plus side, you know you can use the klystrons for warming up leftover
> mcdonalds food.  Just put your food in the dummy load and give it about
> 2 seconds...  And freshly evaporated Helium ( approx 5 degrees Kelvin ) will
> chill a beer right to the edge of solid in about a second, just wear gloves
> while you drink it as the can will be a little cold.
> 
> If only Synthesizers had a kill radius...

Hey! Now we finally got some propper mad scientist stuff going... don't kill it
off by talking synthesizers... ;O)

Cheers,
Magnus