Скачать или смотреть Cold Cathode Mercury Vapour Rectifier Tube - Test Setup

A test setup to run an AEG J10/1000/1Gl rectifier tube with a cold mercury cathode.
There is a liquid cathode pool on the bottom which consists of a huge amount mercury.
Into this mercury pool, there produdes an ignition electrode (made out of graphite I guess, possibly with a coating). The Anode consists of a big hollow cylinder, out of graphite as well.
When a sufficiently large ignition pulse arrives, the mercury atmosphere gets ionized and the entire path between cathode and anode begins to conduct with an arc. specs:
max. blocking voltage, peak value: 15KV
max. peak current, peak value: 1000A
max. average current, continuous: 1A
Application: controlled rectifier for adjustable power, my tubes come from the power supply of a short wave transmitter
use a single tube for DC operation, two tubes for AC in inverse-parallel connection