• DocumentCode
    1010421
  • Title

    A Cold-Cathode Arc-Discharge Tube

  • Author

    Germeshausen, K.J. ; Edgerton, H.E.

  • Author_Institution
    Mass Inst. of Technology, Cambridge
  • Volume
    55
  • Issue
    7
  • fYear
    1936
  • fDate
    7/1/1936 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    790
  • Lastpage
    809
  • Abstract
    A grid-controlled arc-discharge tube which requires neither power nor time for heating the cathode, but in which a discharge of several hundred amperes is controlled by an extremely small amount of power in the grid circuit, is described in this paper. The tube has characteristics especially useful In circuits requiring large peak current but low average current, some examples of which are given here and is applicable particularly as a light source in stroboscopes.
  • Keywords
    Arc discharges; Cathodes; Electron tubes; Heating; Light sources; Synchronous motors;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    American Institute of Electrical Engineers, Transactions of the
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0096-3860
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/T-AIEE.1936.5057352
  • Filename
    5057352