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What if you were trapped in the chamber with FoFu-1 during a shot?

Posted by DerekShannon on Feb 19, 2011 at 01:35 AM
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Now you know!

Spoiler alert! Here are the two frames showing the flash:

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Derek! This is brilliant! Can you isolate the 3-5 frames where the flash occurs and show them as stills? It will then be even more obvious that the flash of light is coming from the vacuum chamber port - which means it’s happening inside with the electrodes.

Posted by Rezwan on 02/19 at 12:47 PM

Updated with those frames, just two!

Posted by DerekShannon on 02/19 at 03:14 PM

Awesome! I will now upload to FB. Retweet, folks!

Posted by Rezwan on 02/19 at 05:45 PM

Pretty cool. I was expecting the flash to come from the viewport in the vacuum chamber, but instead it appears to be coming from the drift tube below the vacuum chamber. The drift tube is solid metal. So obviously the flash must be reflected from somewhere, but where?

Posted by Ivy Matt on 02/19 at 08:07 PM

Likewise. It could also be the first flash is actually from the trigger, reflecting off somewhere (it looks like a lens flare), and the second frame flash is coming from…well, it’s hard to tell. We’ll have to get more images, many more fps’s.

Posted by Rezwan on 02/19 at 08:24 PM

The most interesting part for me was not the flash but the low frequency sound after it. It seems the whole structure was hit with a hammer!!!! :O

Posted by MTd2 on 02/20 at 02:26 AM

Metals fluoresce when intensely bombarded with gamma rays or x rays. Some of the emitted light will be in the visible spectum. I think you will find that the emission region is a doughnut shaped ring which is comprised of the metal which is closest to the reaction.

Posted by JimmyT on 02/20 at 06:12 PM

Is it really the metal that is shinning or is it just the electrons of the CCD of the camera being displaced?

Posted by MTd2 on 02/20 at 06:14 PM

Very dramatic video… love the sound of the capacitors charging up.

Posted by speedplane on 03/15 at 12:22 AM