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Old 10-21-2002, 05:50 PM
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Lightbulb what is it????

i know this may not be the place to ask about transmitter tubes,but anyone know what this large tube was used for??
(5948A..)
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Old 10-21-2002, 06:20 PM
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WOW that thing is bigger than an 813 tube! During WW2, the duds were probably used as projectiles to take out the enemy!
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Old 10-22-2002, 07:46 AM
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That tube is a 12 Megawatt Thyratron - 25 KV peak anode voltage, 1000 Amps peak current. Not a transmitting tube; definitely an industrial type, perhaps used by electric utilities.

http://www.tritonetd.com/product/thyra.html

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Old 10-22-2002, 07:50 AM
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tube

what were these used for..??
I thought for sure it was a transmitter tube of some sort..
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Old 10-22-2002, 08:03 AM
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Thyratrons are used for a broad spectrum of high power switching applications such as medical lasers. The thyratron is an electronic, repetitive "on" switch used to generate trains of high voltage energy; accurately timed and precisely spaced pulses.
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Old 10-22-2002, 08:54 AM
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That's a monster

I think those are used to heat rooms in extreme cold weather
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Old 10-22-2002, 10:13 AM
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Where's Rob? Looks like something he uses in his tesla coils.
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Old 10-22-2002, 01:17 PM
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In the movie Back to the Future , what was the device in the car that made it travel thru time? Maybe I could wire a 5948A into my Galaxie 500 and go back in time!
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Old 10-22-2002, 04:31 PM
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Flux Capacitor

Charlie,

that was a Flux Capacitor, easy enough to obtain, but where are you going to get the 1.21 Jigawatts (or is it Gigawatts?) of power needed to operate it?

Also If you go looking for Plutonium these days you will certainly wind up in jail as a suspected terrorist!

Your Galaxy 500 is also heavier and isn't made of Stainless Steel so it might actually take a bit more power than that!


If you have the 390cu engine with a 4 bbl carb getting up to 88 mph shouldn't be a problem. Getting it stopped in a reasonable amount of time with 4 wheel drum brakes might be difficult however


Can you tell I saw this movie 13 times in while it was in the Theater

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Old 10-23-2002, 11:26 PM
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Re: Flux Capacitor

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Charlie,

that was a Flux Capacitor, easy enough to obtain, but where are you going to get the 1.21 Jigawatts (or is it Gigawatts?) of power needed to operate it?


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Doesn't thor have that many watts?
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