vansig wrote:

Well… how many useful things could be investigated without using a DPF at all?

tinkering with computer models? if there is source code available online?

designing the exit beam energy capture? if the right magnetics modeling tools exist?

I was wondering about R&D experimentation that might test its results using existing sources that are kin to what an FF is supposed to generate… even if the output isn’t to the same scale as an FF.

Very handwavy, I know, but I had a notion that this might advance auxiliary FF research projects while LPPX-1 and successors are being worked on.