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Subject: Re: Different Grid Topologies
Date: Jul 07, 00:01 am
Poster: Richard Hull

On Jul 07, 00:01 am, Richard Hull wrote:

>This is along the same general line as the brush discussion...
>
>One Idea I've been considering is to use a spiral topology for the inner grid (just take a single
>piece of wire and wrap it in a loose spiral from one pole of a sphere to the other). I'll have
>to make a jig sphere that is dismantleable, but
>that shouldn't be too difficult. You could make
>a matching spiral ridge on the inner surface of the anode that would emit deuterons in the gaps between the windings of the inner sphere.
>
>Has anyone considered any other topoligies besides the standard rings approach?

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Some new topologies have been investigated by most all fusor groups. The spiral inner grid sounds interesting. Deuterons are never emitter by the grids. They are formed any whwere in the chamber where there are energetic electrons. Concentrate the electron emission and you concentrate, quite nearby, the deuteron production in the gas. This is due to ionization by electron bombardment of free gas atoms.

I vote someone with such ideas actually test them out in a fusor. I am sure most ideas will work. How much improvement, if any, will be a matter of test by doing.

Richard Hull