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With 6 circuits you can wire it like the MPG devices.blaisepascal wrote: BTW, The geometry Bussard wanted to use for the original WB-8 was the icosidodecahedron, which looks like this:
The problem with this 6 loop method is that there would be coil material in the center of every funny cusp which would lead to unacceptable electron losses.vernes wrote:With 6 circuits you can wire it like the MPG devices.blaisepascal wrote: BTW, The geometry Bussard wanted to use for the original WB-8 was the icosidodecahedron, which looks like this:
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http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/SixInterwovenLoops/
True, But I saw some designs here involving multiple inlets.KitemanSA wrote:By the bye, the MPG was NOT wired like this. It had a serpentine path around the volume but never once wove over/under like this.
Making one on a planar projection is easy. So easy I feel I'm missing something important.KitemanSA wrote:I'd truly love to see that serpentine path!
Actually, I THINK that if one can mentally warp that into the proper 3D figure, that is exactly the desired path. Neat!vernes wrote:Making one on a planar projection is easy. So easy I feel I'm missing something important.KitemanSA wrote:I'd truly love to see that serpentine path!
What am I missing?
The big problem I see with interwoven coils like that is that there's no way to get a consistent current direction around the edges of all the faces. Also, each pentagon wants to have opposite polarity from its neighbors.vernes wrote:With 6 circuits you can wire it like the MPG devices.
http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/SixInterwovenLoops/
I don't think they do....if it weren't for that equatorial member that cuts right through the center of the three equatorial funny-cusps.
Speaking about your "quadrant of a higher ordered version", the vertex at about 22.5 degrees south by 30 degrees west is an example of a funny cusp without any metal in it. The one on the equator at 0 degrees south by 45 degrees west has metal in the middle. True, two of the pipes bend away but the cusp is that single point in line with all the line segments coming in at that point.tombo wrote:I don't think they do....if it weren't for that equatorial member that cuts right through the center of the three equatorial funny-cusps.
I think they go between pairs of funny cusps. Look at the current directions and field directions.
They have to be there to separate the areas of alternating B field directions.