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Subject: Re: Cylindrical IEC
Date: Jan 06, 4:32 pm
Poster: Richard Hull

On Jan 06, 4:32 pm, Richard Hull wrote:

Not much mention is made of the ends of the cylinder (does the grid just end, or is it sloped, rounded, attached to the end wall of the chamber, etc?)
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I can't speak for Miley's effort, but the Farnsworth unit has the ends of the inner cylindrical grid as halfspheres. the chamber or outer wall had flat ends.

Richard Hull