Talk:Thyratron

Dear me! This page reads like homage to 1940s engineering, rather than state of the art technology worth several tens of millions of dollars in annual sales! Historical background is fine; actually, I am very much in favour of it, but the use of thyratrons for motor control went out with Cuban heels and flared trousers… Three pictures, supposedly illustrative of current thyratrons, not one of which is less than forty years old – probably older! If anyone is monitoring this, I invite them to comment; failing that, or even if comments are forthcoming, I will amend this page. It should reflect a technology that while admittedly being slowly replaced by solid state devices, ain’t dead yet. Good grief! Applications include Dekatron calculators? Noise sources? Who wrote this stuff? Or is this a joke? If it is, it is in extremely poor taste. Peter Maggs 17:11, 22 October 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Peter Maggs (talk • contribs)

Given that a thyratron is gas-filled, I'm not sure it belongs in the Wiki category of "Vacuum tubes (although I take your point)".

Atlant 01:23, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)


 * I know, I struggled with that one for a bit. I just wanted it to reside with the other components of the same style. If you can think of a category that encompasses vacuum & gas-filled tubes then lets add it in :) If we called them 'glass components' then we'd be emphasizing their construction rather than their electronic function..

--Hooperbloob 02:26, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)


 * "Electron Devices"? Isn't that the title of the relevant IEEE Journal? --Pjacobi 12:10, 2005 Feb 20 (UTC)

It is tough to think of a single category that encompasses both vacuum tubes and gas tubes and yet still conveys any meaningful data. I guess we ought to make a category called "Vacuum and gas tubes" and create subcats within there for "Vacuum tubes" and "Gas tubes". The "Gas tubes" category could then be the home for a whole host of devices including thyratrons, Mercury vapor rectifiers, Voltage regulator tubes, Nixie tubes, Decatrons, and the like.

What do you think about that?

Atlant 20:26, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Given that the pressure in a thyratron is on the order of 30 millibars (3% of air pressure at sea level) the word "vacuum" is not undeserved. Vaxalon 13:43, 29 July 2005 (UTC)


 * Why not a catagory Electron tubes? That covers both. -- RTC 05:49, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

What is with the "world view" header? Did Tesla invent this too? Is someone saying that the Chinese and the Soviets invented this technology first? They may well have... but regardless of the origin calling this "a western viewpoint" is silly. I suppose low atmospheric pressure argon behaves differently in Ethiopia, for example. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.95.7.245 (talk) 04:18, 26 February 2017 (UTC)

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