LPPX Wishlist - Donate Equipment!

Posted by Rezwan on Feb 18, 2011 at 05:01 PM
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Per their site:

LPP needs your help!!!  Our quest for Focus Fusion and X-Scan requires certain expensive equipment, for which we don’t have the funding.  Perhaps you or a company you know about has these pieces of equipment sitting around or being thrown out.  We’d love to have them!  We have already received some great used equipment from a local company, based on the suggestion from a fusion fan, so we thought we’d put together a wish list and see what else we could get in this way.  It never hurts to ask!

  - Oscilloscopes

    - 2 LeCroy Wavepro 960 or similar: 4-channel

    - 1 Tektronix MSO4104B or similar: 1 GHz, 4-channel, semi-portable for checking things in the reactor room

  - Mass Spectrometer

  - UV-VIS Spectrometer

  - Neutron Detector with associated equipment

  - X-Ray Source (like used by dentists) for calibrating our X-ray detectors

  - Small Lathe for those small jobs that we don’t want to send to the machinist

  - Digital Geiger Counter for, you know, measuring any radioactivity

  - BIG Capacitors: must handle 45 kV, 9-10 microfarads (perhaps sitting around in a hospital or research lab basement somewhere)

  - Framing Camera: for capturing “video” of the of the plasmoid formation process (this is our dream camera that costs about $500K) [Renting one costs $5000 per week.]

  - variable 10A power supply for the axial field coil.

Let the equipment hunt begin!