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The 2012 HEAS is well underway today. Many familiar faces and some new ones. The first photo is the first evening dinner with about half of the members present.

The evening was complete with a demonstration of Richard's fusor, metals activation, along with a Van DeGraff generator, cloud chamber, led technology demos. Tomorrow is the big day with a group breakfast, one of a kind flea market, diverse demos, presentations, dinner, and great discussions and socializing well into the night.

NOTE EDIT: click on all images in all reply postings to enlarge and view R.H.

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Hope to be there next year!
Thanks for the pix Frank.
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Richard, many thanks again to you and your wife for hosting a wonderful event! I enjoyed catching up with friends and fusioneer alum again, and seeing the demonstrations. Some fun photos are below:

1. Swap meet view 1
2. Richard with cloud chamber (Dave Rosignoli's design?)
3. Swap meet view 2
4. 1500cpm whale bone (L), and historic graphite block from CP-2 reactor (R) - thanks Carl!
5. Big glass! CX1125 (L) and 750XL with U-Glass joints (R) - thanks Rich!
6. 750-800kv Van de Graff generator (my demo)
7. Moi on the Van de Graff before Carl discharged me
8. Larry's super discharge device
9. Tesla device

Hope to see everyone again at the next HEAS! - Eric
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Just a few more picts.

1. Shot inside of the lab
2. Tesla fun
3. Long discharge (13ms) Tesla arc.

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Thanks to everyone who attended this year's big event I have the usual major image of all the fusor.net folks who attended this year's conference. (attached)

The usual special appreciation goes to all who have contributed photos. I am just too busy to roam about and capture all the scene. You guys help me mightily when you pile on the images of the event.

I hope that this is Fusor IV's last year and that a fusor V can be on hand next year. We did get fusor IV up to a total of ~1,485,000 n/s or 2.8 million fusions/second.
Tim Koeth's REM Ball showed ~9 mRem/hr at the fusor chamber of fast neutrons.
Best run data: 15.8 micorns of D2, 45.1kv @ 9.5ma.

We had a total of 61 people attend of which 55 formally registered. This makes this year one of the largest in the 23 years I have held this sort of gathering. 19 of the attendees were fusor.net folks bringing the fusor related attendances to ~33%! Our farthest travelers would be Ed Miller and Jon Rosentsiel (California) with Carl Willis probably third. Albuquerque, NM.

Thanks, again, to all who helped make this a really big event.

Picture: L to R front row - Dan Hoffman, Jim Kruther, Susan Mills, Reggie Jaynes, Dennis Brown, Jim Kovalchick, Jeannette Brown, Richard Hull

Back Row L to R - Joe Jarski, Jon Rosenstiel, Ed Miller, Carl Willis, Bill Fain, Eric Stroud, Charlie Melvin, Mike Kovalchick, Dave Rosignoli, Frank Sanns, Tim Koeth

Re: names - Any mispells or wrong I.D.s please correct me. I am terrible with names and often even faces!

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Richard, thanks again for hosting yet another great H.E.A.S. meet, I thoroughly enjoyed myself.

Image: Top terminal of Eric Stroud's hair-raising Van de Graaff.

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Richard,

Wish I could have been there, looks a lot of fun...

Just a double check on that rem ball measurement, 9 mrem, looks low for 1.4 mega neuts at chamber wall. If I assume 15 cm, radius, the exposure per hour should be around 36 mrem/h

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The original calibration of my system was done with a total of 4 different bubble detectors over a total of 62 timed runs over a period of 5 years with the detector fixed and data reduced to an average multiplier coefficient for the counts on the fixed He3 detector. The detector has never been moved or altered in any way since 2004. I have given an extensive treatment here and in my lab notes for this method over the years on how this was done.

Jon Rosenstiel brought some figures from his plus-ultra system as a check on this and my system mimes his very closely in neutron numbers at a given pressure, voltage and current.

The activation of silver would also back this up.

All work and statements are probably within 15-20% which is about the best any one can do on absolute neutron numbers.

In short, I am relatively confident of my numbers as the data collected over the last 8 years is rather voluminous and cross checked by others and using many different methods.

I do not know the history or calibration of the rem ball used here as it was not my instrument.

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Richard,

I was not doubting the neutron numbers, merely questioning the measurement taken by Tim with the rem ball, as it seemed to be reading a mere 25%.

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I took the measurement using Tim's ball. I can assure you that the meter read 9 mrem. I expect that the meter is probably set for thermal neutrons, but I would have to ask Tim. The QF for 2.45 Mev would tend to raise the real reading, but I would have to check the tables to see how much.
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I looked back at HEAS 2011 data and Richard posted that Tim measured 7.7 mrem using the same ball at 1.1 million neutrons per second. So, the numbers appear to correlate.
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Jim, thanks for the cross check on the old figures. There must be some issue with the rem ball or distance involved. I remember that while you were taking the reading you were having to avoid the naked 43 kilovolt top electrode and this allowed you to not get but so close.

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I had a wonderful time as usual, and came home with a couple "spicy" goodies as well as a nice little x-ray machine, an electrometer, and a Russian night-vision scope that emits x-rays. Thanks to Richard for his hospitality!

Looking at the 9 mrem / hr measurement (which I wasn't present to observe), if it were made with a standard 9" remball placed directly against the fusor chamber, it should read about 29.5 mrem / hr at 1.4M n/s. It's impossible to say if the discrepancy is the remball (which it easily could be, for instance if a different cable is being used on it than the one it was cal'd with), or some noise on Richard's big detector, etc. And as Jim points out, it may not be accurate to assume that the center of the remball was 4.5" from the fusor flange as there is a lot of steric hindrance due to the vacuum gauges, feedthrough, and so forth. Suffice it to say, this was not a precision measurement.

Looking forward to next year!
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Yes, thanks for the numbers. By having so many people measure the same source, and come to consensus about the readings, we've managed to get a pretty decent calibration across labs, which can only be for the good of all. It's helped me a great deal, even though I didn't make it this time.
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Here are some more photos supplied by Tom Klynes. Thanks to Tom for sending these along.

Most relate to photos already posted. Cloud chamber watchers, etc. However, we see Q in the third image with his homemade florence flask-on ring stand coffee mug with Warren Ellingsen beside him discussing something of great import. Q is famous for his interesting bring-alongs.

The last image is one rarely taken and a first for HEAS imagery. It's the junk food pile which sustains so many DIYs and amateur science dweebs in their daily lives and during critical periods of experiment. The C12H22O11 based products like cake, donuts cookies and the like have already been consumed by the masses with the gusto of a hound dog. (aid to cerebration) Only the NaCl based piles remain. (electrolyte replacement)

Fresh goodies were brought in throughout the day, but didn't last long.

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More pix from Cameron Prince at...

https://teslauniverse.com/build/galleri ... conference

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