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Re: LMU fusor photos

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 04:16:53 GMT

Well...the bowls are not actually epoxied together, they just have the rubber gasket (with vacuum grease) in between them. The wood kind of acts as a clamping surface, but is really more to hold the bowls from sliding out of alignment. We found ...

High Altitude Gamma Spectra

Sat, 04 Sep 2010 18:34:57 GMT

On my transcontinental flight to the West Coast mini HEAS this weekend, I took an MCA with me. The attached file shows the spectra after 2 hours of flight. Sorry for the format but I do no have a file converter with me.

I wanted to ...

Re: LMU fusor photos

Sat, 04 Sep 2010 17:52:16 GMT

Interesting. I have toyed with using wood as a clamping interface. How are your metal flanges epoxied to the bowels. On the surface of the lip ( so the flanges press directly against each other) or are the flanges epoxied behind the lips of the ...

LMU fusor photos

Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:02:13 GMT

As promised, here are the photos of my fusor...

Before I go any further, I want to give proper credit and thanks to our intrepid lab manager, Anatol Hoemke, for all of his help and advice, and for agreeing to stay after hours this summer ...

Re: Archived - University of Utah's new demo fusor - we have fusion!

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 23:25:26 GMT

Awesome, thank you very much Richard. I would like to ask if it is ok that Adam Beehler's name be added as well, as it technically is his fusor, and he was an equal on this project with me.

Thanks again, I am really excited and honored ...

Re: Archived - University of Utah's new demo fusor - we have fusion!

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:03:11 GMT

Chris,

A great show there and you are the first I am aware of to do the rather dangerous fusion in a bell jar. While the output was low, your 5 hour, no gas run proved to limped across the fusion line.

I will add your name to ...

Re: Archived - University of Utah's new demo fusor - we have fusion!

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 18:30:05 GMT

Good show all around! Very pretty as well.

We find we only start seeing some neutrons (out of the noise) right around the volts you are using, and that it gets better fast (and the X rays worse) as volts go up and pressure goes down to ...

Re: Archived - University of Utah's new demo fusor - we have fusion!

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:21:20 GMT

Chris,

Nice work and a great report. Nothing like a bell jar for showing off the beautiful red star discharge in deuterium! Welcome to the Neutron Club.

-Carl

Archived - University of Utah's new demo fusor - we have fusion!

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:23:48 GMT

Well, I think we finally got it...

Over the past months, we have made a few changes to our fusor at the U of U. Following the recommendations here on the forum, we made a new inner grid which is much more transparent to incoming ions. At ...

Re: Nice picture of ORNL 25MV tandem accelerator.

Thu, 19 Aug 2010 16:12:02 GMT

Look's kinda small ...

Don't read that rag so, did they succeed? Is it or isn't it?