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electron plasma really just superimposes it's own field over the field from the coils, Yes, that looks good. But, I’m still not sure how the plasma ball assumes a spherical shape without peaks at the coil centers & corners. Here is Indrek’s model of the core. (probably before inflation begins) http...

Auctioning things off eh? I wonder if anyone here can pick up a vacuum chamber the right size? How about turbo-molecular pumps? Gate valves, pressure sensors, leak checkers etc. etc. Power supplies? High voltage high current switches? All those puppies are expensive. You could save a bundle if they ...

Thank you jmc Very enlightening. But sometimes an answer only brings up more questions. This is making more sense now. I’m getting it about the changing gyro radius keeping the electron away from the hole. Yes I’ve been seeing the balloon analogy. But, I’m not sure how closely it models reality. I c...

Hanylep, Wouldn’t the currents induced in the plasma buck the currents in the coil? I got this both from lenz’s law and from right hand rule. A clockwise coil (positive) current looking into the device would produce a counterclockwise gyration in each positive ion and a clockwise gyration in each el...

Thank you drmike I can’t do those numbers. I dug out my old Krall & Trivelpiece and worked on it for a few days. I’m getting more now but it was painfully slow, line by line equation by equation. Their math is still as intimidating as ever. It is interesting to see how short a distance we’ve come si...

6. This requirement has two main consequences: (a) All coil containers/casings must be of a shape conformal to the B fields produced by their internal current conductors, This means the corners of the triangles could be tricky. The solution for the B field may not yield a circular curve at the corn...

Which m^2 are we talking about? The inside of the whole chamber? Coil surface area? The coil alpha intercept area? Different heat loads have different appropriate areas. So scaling could be something of a wash for equal energy flux in the core and equal heat dissipation per m^2 in the heat transfer ...

It could be made either as a tapered solenoid or as a deformed Bitter coil. My concern is making sure that all the field lines stay outside the material surfaces. If the tapered solenoid were stretched lengthwise so there was room between the coils for electron recirculation it might work better. Th...

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I guess I was expecting to see proportions like WB6 with that screen several radii away and even more space to the chamber wall.
Why no screen?

Since nobody really knows how the WB effect occurs I will feel free to flail around here verbally grasping for straws that float. I seem to detect disagreement on what the cusp means. Does the line cusp run radially from the device center out through the coil center? Or is that the point cusp where ...

Thanks for the encouragement Solo. Tony, I think the internal reflection you describe is the mirror effect. And I think I pretty much understand it about 3 different (compatible) ways. We get mirror reflection whenever the electron moves toward a higher field strength region, even when the electron ...

So starting at the inside, they fall down the potential well toward the positive magrid, then continue beyond it under their momentum until they reach the starting E field potential outside the magrid where they stop and fall back toward the positive magrid and past it back into the device. (where h...

MSimon, I was actually referring to the integral of the magnetic flux over any closed surface being equal to zero. I apologize if that comment sounded pointed. I was getting excited. I'm just a geek and sometimes the finer nuances get past me. Didn't Dr B say they achieved a whiffle ball with the MP...

Tony, Yes the 8 sided one does look a little coarse. I started there because it is the simplest one. I'm more partial to the 32 sided one. The field lines bunch at both N & S poles for both cubic WB and for my design. The confinement must happen at both N & S poles for both cubic WB and for my desig...

Cool. How hard a vacuum are they good for? The experiments they were being used in went down to 10-8. I tend to think that other parts of the vacuum system would fail first. Mostly depends on how good the metal seal is. Might take a little bit of experimenting. But at $2.50 for a feed through I am ...