KN6 Krytron tube testing
Posted: Sat Apr 08, 2017 7:49 pm
I recently acquired some KN6 and KN6B krytron tubes and have begun testing them
Pictures of the KN6 Closeups with a digital microscope Keep alive plasma Voltage waveforms were measured with a tektronix TDS3034B oscilloscope and P6015A high voltage probes. The krytron was connected to a 20nF 2kv capacitor charged through a 1M resistor, the keep alive was connected through a 25M resistor, the trigger was capacitivly coupled to the trigger transformer from an SSY-1 laser and connected to the anode with a 100k resistor, and the load was a 1ohm resistor.
Discharges recorded with a high speed camera
keepalive 1 frame before firing Firing scope trace, ch1 is trigger pulse, ch4 is voltage across capacitor, all x1000 the tube achieves ~200ns delay time(typical of the kn6) and almost no jitter, there is some ringing due to stray inductance in the circuit.
Datasheets and krytron circuits
Pictures of the KN6 Closeups with a digital microscope Keep alive plasma Voltage waveforms were measured with a tektronix TDS3034B oscilloscope and P6015A high voltage probes. The krytron was connected to a 20nF 2kv capacitor charged through a 1M resistor, the keep alive was connected through a 25M resistor, the trigger was capacitivly coupled to the trigger transformer from an SSY-1 laser and connected to the anode with a 100k resistor, and the load was a 1ohm resistor.
Discharges recorded with a high speed camera
keepalive 1 frame before firing Firing scope trace, ch1 is trigger pulse, ch4 is voltage across capacitor, all x1000 the tube achieves ~200ns delay time(typical of the kn6) and almost no jitter, there is some ringing due to stray inductance in the circuit.
Datasheets and krytron circuits