« How Radio Hobbyists Decoded SpaceX’s Telemetry and Engineering Video | Main | A Jet-Powered Go-Kart »
Tuesday, March 16, 2021
CONTINUITY: “Principles of Gas Filled Tubes”: 1945 Training Film
One of the rooms at my engineering school had fluorescent lighting with a dimmer that used a bank of thyratron tubes to chop the AC waveform into slices delivering the desired input power. When you turned the dimmer way down, you'd get weird dancing plasma effects in the fluorescent tubes. I ought to try that some time with a triac and oscillator drive.
Posted at March 16, 2021 12:29