FoFu-1 Design
(7) CommentsSeasons greetings everyone! I’ve just uploaded a set of photos on FoFu-1’s design. This set is packed with explanations and information. Let me know if it gives you a sense of how the machine fits together.
Note the link above is to a new layout of the images. I like that layout better than the one on flicker, but you have to open the description for each image. Below is the slideshow as imported from flickr.
Note: Descriptions don’t show up in the embeded version. To see the descriptions, you’ll have to watch this slideshow on flickr. Make sure to click on “Options” and check off “Always show title and description”.
Once again, this link takes you to a page with all the thumbnails - you can click on those images for images and then open up the descriptions.
Compare this with opening the thumbnails in flickr from the links below. There, you get space to comment, and the description already open.
Still to Come
Integration: As you can see, we need better integration of 3rd party photo management sites with our website. We process the pictures in “Lightroom” and it’s easy to upload to flickr or picasa. What we need is a way to upload directly to the website, or more control when embedding flickr or picasa into the site. Also not a big fan of how the captions show up in the flickr slide shows. Maybe a switch to picasa will fix things.
Processing: Coming next year, we’ll sift through the 4000 pictures to make more pictorial essays and explanations of the diagnostic instruments and each of the trouble-shooting episodes the team has been through. Also - linking the oscilloscope readouts to data (what do the lines on the graph mean, and what does this correspond to in terms of the firing of the machine?)
Animation: Also coming - a cool interactive flash animation so that you can run a virtual FoFu. We’ll need help with this one.
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Happy Holidays!
And to all a good night!
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For a more in depth discussion, start a thread in the forums.Excellent sequencing.
Gives a good idea of how everything fits together. Titles or brief captions, especially for the later pix, might help, but not crucial.
I now see you say “packed with” explanations and information. Where did you hide them? Nothing whatever shows up on/with/under/near/linked to the pictures.
Thanks, Brian. Did you figure this one out? You’ll have to go to flickr to see the descriptions. I’ve updated the post to explain the options. There must be a way to embed those in our site from flickr with title and caption showing up, but I’ll need some code.
Very nice set of photos and nice to have a better understanding as to how things work together. I am puzzled as to why the copper ground plates are above the plywood floor rather than under them.
I assume the copper “wire” used for the axial magnetic field is in fact a copper sheathing and the insulated wire is protected inside that sheathing. Is the sheathing used to prevent the insulation from being fried with each shot or does it have to do with grounding the EMP from the shot so as to not interfere with the axial field equipment?
Zavod;
AFAIK, there is no blast of heat in the vacuum chamber with each shot, only deep within the anode, in a tiny plasmoid. In fact, the electron (beta) beam is fed back into the plasma to keep it hot enough to prevent the gas from condensing (or will be when pB11 is used). I see no need for sheathing.
The coil of wire for the axial magnetic field would be shorted out as the attachments to the chamber wall are conducting. Hence I assumed there is another insulated wire within the copper shielding. The induced current from the shot would be very substantial. I am not sure how much energy is used in each shot but I suspect it is enough to cook plastic insulation.
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