Talk:Krytron

Discharge mechanism
Are we sure its an arc, not a plasma discharge as in a thyratron?--Light current 17:02, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

This apparently is such an old tech...
How come rogue would-be nuclear club members fall on their faces smuggling Krytrons, instead of trying to manufacture them in i.e. local light bulb factory? What makes it such a stunt to manufacture a triode (plus keep-alive electrode) with low-pressure gas inside? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 147.91.1.41 (talk) 09:14, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

My thoughts exactly after reading this page.

You could manufacture your own light bulbs, and yet you buy them. Why would you do that? It is cheaper and easier to buy them, even if you have to go a few miles out of your way to go to the store. The same applies to a third world country that wants these devices. If they can buy it from a smuggler, they can get it cheaper than designing their own and setting up a factory. Remember that you only need a few for a nuclear program. 130.167.80.3 (talk) 15:38, 2 March 2011 (UTC)

Possible confusion with cryotron
Should there be a short sentence that says something like "not to be confused with cryotron" ??? AlanDewey (talk) 20:56, 6 July 2010 (UTC)


 * A disambiguation line was added. 143.232.210.150 (talk) 23:16, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

Confusing sentence
It says "The switching delay is strongly independent on the environment." This looks like it may be a mistake. In English, the usual phrase would be "independent of the environment" so it looks like someone meant to write "dependent on the environment" but type "INdependent" instead. Or maybe it really is "independent of". I don't know which is right, so I can't correct it. 130.167.80.3 (talk) 15:27, 2 March 2011 (UTC)