A few days ago I saw an electronics store selling for pretty cheap a handheld device which I believe to be some form of miniature electrometer able to detect the electric fields thrown off of electrodes charged to fusorish voltages, from a standoff distance of several inches.
I am curious whether anybody thinks that this would be a useful tool for fusioneering. (Note that contact HV probes rated for 50 kV seem to be rather rare!)
ESD Detectors: Any Use?
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Re: ESD Detectors: Any Use?
It wont be anywhere near accurate.
Sencore makes a 50kv probe: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Sencore-HP200-5 ... SwEzxYbCHt
Sencore makes a 50kv probe: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Sencore-HP200-5 ... SwEzxYbCHt
Re: ESD Detectors: Any Use?
Obviously it wouldn't be a good quantitative measurement.
But I sort of wondered whether it would be useful for profiling e-fields or getting a rough idea.
But I sort of wondered whether it would be useful for profiling e-fields or getting a rough idea.
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If merely profiling E-fields is really important to you, then go for it. Of course, it won't help getting fusion done at all. All such devices are, indeed some form of inexpensive electrometer with easily destroyed FET front ends.
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Fusion is the energy of the future....and it always will be
The more complex the idea put forward by the poor amateur, the more likely it will never see embodiment
Re: ESD Detectors: Any Use?
Oh? What kind of electrometer is harder to destroy?
Also, would it be useful for mass spectrometer type ion detectors?
Also, would it be useful for mass spectrometer type ion detectors?
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Re: ESD Detectors: Any Use?
One with a vacuum tube ("valve" in the UK) instead of an FET.
The more reactive the materials, the more spectacular the failures.
The testing isn't over until the prototype is destroyed.
The testing isn't over until the prototype is destroyed.
Re: ESD Detectors: Any Use?
I should have figured. I'd be curious if you know of any guides to such things, especially that will be meaningful to somebody not experience with tubes.