Chapter 6
I love the Cap bank cage in the background of the pic on pages 65/66!
The development of atomic power, though it could confer unimaginable blessings on mankind, is something that is dreaded by the owners of coal mines and oil wells. (Hazlitt)
What I want to do is to look up C. . . . I call him the Forgotten Man. (Sumner)
What I want to do is to look up C. . . . I call him the Forgotten Man. (Sumner)
We needed the microwave tech when I was on the project, and it was frankly over my head. I had no idea how to set up one of the short wavelength systems such as they'd used on the old DTI project. They were running 93 GHz and I didn't even know where to buy microwave gear above 50 GHz, as far as most catalogs went.
Glad to see this.
Glad to see this.
That explains the need for a microwave person, it also gives an idea as to where Polywell was back in November(?) last year. The plasma shots mentioned were also 2ms. One might suppose they have some plasma density measurements by now. I would have thought their plasma measurements would have been worked out in WB-7.1. Perhaps they were using other techniques that the microwave measurements were intended to improve upon....
Best regards,
PS We get a picture of the WB-8 shell, 44 bolt holes for the flange? What diameter would that make the flange?
Best regards,
PS We get a picture of the WB-8 shell, 44 bolt holes for the flange? What diameter would that make the flange?
Counting the days to commercial fusion. It is not that long now.
In many ways WB-8 is still operating well under capacity. The Marx Bank which charges the coils has been turned on, but only seven of the eventual 20 capacitors are connected. Even those seven capacitors have not yet been fully charged. The electron gun is being repaired and has not been used with the interferometer mounted.
The development of atomic power, though it could confer unimaginable blessings on mankind, is something that is dreaded by the owners of coal mines and oil wells. (Hazlitt)
What I want to do is to look up C. . . . I call him the Forgotten Man. (Sumner)
What I want to do is to look up C. . . . I call him the Forgotten Man. (Sumner)
He also states a calculational assumption that the plasma ball is 20cm in diameter.
The development of atomic power, though it could confer unimaginable blessings on mankind, is something that is dreaded by the owners of coal mines and oil wells. (Hazlitt)
What I want to do is to look up C. . . . I call him the Forgotten Man. (Sumner)
What I want to do is to look up C. . . . I call him the Forgotten Man. (Sumner)
This looks considerably more sophisticated than what I know of the DTI setup. Physically, my kind of project, with protoboards and dimension lumber. Math-wise, wow!
So, I guess now you guys know what I meant when I said what I saw was shiny. I suspect several of you are madly counting CF flange bolts and looking up sizes in the catalogs. That will keep you busy for a while, but I notice the camera angles don't show a lot.
So, I guess now you guys know what I meant when I said what I saw was shiny. I suspect several of you are madly counting CF flange bolts and looking up sizes in the catalogs. That will keep you busy for a while, but I notice the camera angles don't show a lot.
Likely six months ago, no?ladajo wrote:In many ways WB-8 is still operating well under capacity. The Marx Bank which charges the coils has been turned on, but only seven of the eventual 20 capacitors are connected. Even those seven capacitors have not yet been fully charged. The electron gun is being repaired and has not been used with the interferometer mounted.
Counting the days to commercial fusion. It is not that long now.
Above, 44 but I'm poor at the catalog search.Tom Ligon wrote:I suspect several of you are madly counting CF flange bolts and looking up sizes in the catalogs. That will keep you busy for a while, but I notice the camera angles don't show a lot.
Counting the days to commercial fusion. It is not that long now.
"The coils will eventually be charged up to 25kV."
I implemented a Poisson Solver in MATLAB for a charged magnetic grid inside the vacuum chamber. I get something that looks like this for the electric potential inside the chamber due to the charge on the magnetic grid. This is a cutaway view down the middle of a cube shape vacuum chamber.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5095342/images/polywell4.jpg
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5095342/images/polywell5.jpg
Other images of setting up the 3D mesh for poisson solver.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5095342/images/polywell1.jpg
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5095342/images/polywell2.jpg
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5095342/images/polywell3.jpg
I implemented a Poisson Solver in MATLAB for a charged magnetic grid inside the vacuum chamber. I get something that looks like this for the electric potential inside the chamber due to the charge on the magnetic grid. This is a cutaway view down the middle of a cube shape vacuum chamber.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5095342/images/polywell4.jpg
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5095342/images/polywell5.jpg
Other images of setting up the 3D mesh for poisson solver.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5095342/images/polywell1.jpg
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5095342/images/polywell2.jpg
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5095342/images/polywell3.jpg
Re: Chapter 6
Very nice.eige1123 wrote: http://repository.unm.edu/bitstream/han ... sequence=1
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