Well, it would be a good idea to find out the exact specs of your Thyratron (I bet a lot of people don't know what the heck one of these things are!!).
You can try
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except these are Russian made (some still made during the Soviet era), and compare average values of these Thyratrons. However, I've never seen a plastic one (it probably isn't high voltage), most of the ones I've seen are made from ceramic, but this one could be different.
I typically pay $300 USD for a specific Thyratron that is used in Copper Bromide Vapour Pulsed Wave Lasers that I work with, but a NOS one in untested condition?!?!?
Does the application still exist? oh, and not ever having seen a WW2 German grenade, I'm guessing it is a cylinder of some sort with the pins probably on one end. Is there a metal ring somewhere down the center of the unit?
Hope that sorta helps you out.
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A "solid state thyratron" is basically a silicon controlled rectifier in a thyratron-shaped package, maybe with the addition of some signal-conditioning to adapt grid drive to gate drive. Probably intended as a replacement for the mercury-vapor thyratrons WeCo used in their PBX battery chargers.
Tons of uses - from relay controllers to spot welding. Even motor controlls :-)
Martin
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