✅ SOLVED Any Ideas?

[Rmeav8r]

Any ideas on what this might be? It's local and the owner says it lights up like a lamp....but that's all they know.
It's $25 and I'm interested.....thanks.

 

[Red-Coat]

From Wiki: A thyratron is a type of gas-filled tube used as a high-power electrical switch and controlled rectifier. Thyratrons can handle much greater currents than similar hard-vacuum tubes. Electron multiplication occurs when the gas becomes ionized, producing a phenomenon known as Townsend discharge. Gases used include mercury vapor, xenon, neon, and (in special high-voltage applications or applications requiring very short switching times) hydrogen. Unlike a vacuum tube (valve), a thyratron cannot be used to amplify signals linearly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thyratron

This one, at a little over two inches, was used in pulsed radars:

 

[dognose]

interesting item

 

[Rmeav8r]

Thanks Red-Coat! This seems to be made into a lamp or steampunk item with the base. Hopefully I can get it.

 

[robertk]

Hopefully I can get it.

I'd be concerned about the warning label saying it emits X rays. Unless of course it was gutted and the internals replaced with a lamp.

 

[invent4hir]

I second robertk concern. I'd read the specs for that specific one before proceeding.

 

[Red-Coat]

I'd be wary too. You might need to lay off having any dental X-rays for the next 27 years.

 

[Rmeav8r]

Reconsidering.....