Hello from the Spacecoast of Florida

[Trent Carter]

I am in Melbourne, Florida just south of Cocoa and East of Orlando.

I am a physicist and EE by education but have broad skill sets including software, embedded design, schematics, layouts, CAD, RF and general fabrication skills.

I have wanted to make a fusion reactor of some type for 10-20 years, and was mentally setback when I learned of the radioactive boy-scout incident (not fusion). Then I stumbled on some text written by a Richard Hall. A quick google search later I was 7 hours deep in Fusor.net. I especially like the atmosphere at Fusor.net and how Richard, in his retirement, must have an unlimited amount of free time to respond so frequently and with such quality.

I have a few goals for my endeavors into fusion:
1. I hope to eventually release Neutrons, but not so many to cause harm to myself or others.
2. I hope to provide some scientific method based feedback in the form of research and data to this community.
3. I wish to use the efforts to educate my kids and reinforce their knowledge and appreciation of the sciences.

I will be creating a modular system to function across Fusors 1 - N, and I see from this forum that the people who succeed seem to follow a path of ever more successful Fusors. I have been accumulating high voltage power supplies (30kV 30mA), vacuum pumps (Edmonds E2M5 + EO50/60 Diffusion) , fittings, radiation detection gear, vacuum sensors, etc. My plan is to have my first fusor completed by the end of 2017 but more importantly, learn something along the way.

My focus will be research, reproducability and automation.

Trent Carter
Melbourne, Florida

[Richard Hull]

Welcome Trent. You arrive here far better off than most in their fusion attempt. You have solid skills and will develop many more as your project advances. All the best of luck and post often on your progress.

Richard Hull