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They are "off" most of the time accumulating energy, and then they send a very high power pulse, so the average power is not so high. They are talking kilowatt
by simonblack 7y ago
They are "off" most of the time accumulating energy, and then they send a very high power pulse, so the average power is not so high.
They are talking kilowatts, not joules, so the average power is very high. To get that sort of average power, any pulses must either be quite long or extremely powerful.
- anonsivalley652 7y agoThe datasheet claimed 100% duty cycle CW depending entirely on chilled water capacity. I think the military weaponized one are pulsed in the same average energy range, but have a much higher impulse that causes destruction of targets. So the commercial CW ones can cut a steel plate at a certain rate, but the military pulsed ones would obliterate a target.