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Hey guys, As you guessed I have run out of money (shocker!) I've been working fulltime for the last few months. My most immediate goal is to run the sydney experiment again but with a hot cathode electron gun and nothing else (no deuterium). Characterize how changes in the electron beam and magnets ...

I'm actually working with two different electron guns. The first gun is based on the original Sydney experiment. It looks like this: https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/TLbB9gyjufe7xWmuPdH-2w?feat=directlink This gun requires a low pressure gas to operate. The second gun is based on a CRT. Looks l...

Data is flowing!

http://prometheusfusionperfection.com/2 ... -43-volts/

supports are ceramic, coil formers are teflon. brackets are aluminum, the screws will all be stainless in the end.

Yup.

I'm doing the final fit and finish for the whole experiment:

https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/0 ... directlink

The vacuum system is working!!!!!!!

Now for the sydney experiment.

http://prometheusfusionperfection.com/2011/02/17/fixed/

ruby code for above calculations: #!ruby def body(minor_radius) # units in mm # minor_radius = 10.0 # major_radius = 100 tape_major = 4.0 tape_minor = 0.055 we rasterize the radius of the circle to the thickness of the YBCO, then we solve for the intersecrion of the each slice line and the circle sl...

M.Simon: Assuming the donut hole is 1/3 the size of the donut... I calculated the following donut sizes: Smaller size is more cost efficient. minor_radius:2.0 mm tape dimentions: 4.0 mm by 0.3 mm major_outside_diameter:12.0 mm TURNS:2.0 critical_current: 80.0 amps Ampturns:160.0 b_field_at_center_of...

Tom,

I'm using YBCO which seems to be capable of high magnetic fields:


http://www.magnet.fsu.edu/mediacenter/n ... gust7.html


also, thanks for the mention!

I just put a superconducting magnet into a persistent state:

http://prometheusfusionperfection.com/2 ... t-success/

This story gets into more depth:

http://gizmodo.com/5570817/no-sleep-til-fusion

Finally got a copy of LabView:

http://prometheusfusionperfection.com/2 ... 8/labview/

rschaffer8: not a bad idea. I always strive to be entertaining if nothing else.

In response to the feedback about readability, I've updated the blogs theme:

That, and I felt like a change!

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Aero: yes, the big problem is long term funding. I agree that Obama's election campaign is the model to follow for large scale community fundraising. And essentially I've started that process on a small scale with the kickstrarter fundraiser we just completed. From my perspective, the only real curr...

Rcain: sensors: pressure from ion gauge. Flow rate from mass flow controller. Voltage and current reading from Glassman. However I think this outputs on the glassman are wildly miscalibrated. Furthermore I cannot send this unit to glassman for calibration because it's part of a varian electron micro...