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

[The Peasant]

Well, every day I work work with 10 megawatt klystrons and 
5 megawatt magnetrons in linear accelerators. Would you 
like me to save you one?  ;-)=

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?

Take care,
Doug
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Quoting "Scott Evans, Gen Mgr" <esresource at earthlink.net>:

> 
> Magnus Danielson wrote:
> > 
> > Maybe I should start of with a Svetlana 4CX15000A tube?
> Or should I go straight
> > for a TWT or a MSDC Klystron?
> > 
> 
> Hey Magnus,
> 
> Yeah, sure! Klystron... MORE POWER, MORE POWER!.. Oh,
> excuse me, got 
> carried away there a bit.
> 
> I used to work in microwave communications manufacturing.
> One of the 
> engineers there accidentally got across a 6KV Klystron
> anode... took him 
> 4 hours to wake up (glad he did). It is not uncommon for
> a Klystron to 
> operate at 12KV at 5amps, (125KWatts!). There's a new
> type of Klystron 
> called a PPM Focused Klystron which can generate power
> levels close to 
> 50 Megawatts. You can see one here:
> 
> 
http://www.slac.stanford.edu/grp/kly/ppm_klystron/ppm_kly.ht
ml
> 
> Makes your hair stand on end, doesn't it?
> 
> Scott
> 
>