Reply To: FOCUS FUSION REACTOR

[Brian H]

mchargue wrote: What kind of switch system are you using to connect the capacitors to the FF reactor? (Ignitron, spark gap, etc.)

Given that a switch is ‘triggered’ on, how much repeatability is there with any one switch w.r.t. the trigger? That is to say, what’s the jitter between receipt of the triggering event, and the switch closure.

You may be able to control/limit jitter by constraining the environment of the switches. (common temperature, pressure, humidity, etc.)

If it’s a synchronization issue among many such switches, what means are you using to turn the switch on? If the switch trigger is electronic in nature, there are certainly options available to dynamically tune the trigger to get the desired switch behavior based on feedback from the switches & environment.

Sounds like a fun engineering problem. I’d love to hear more about it.

Patrick

AFAIK, they’re diamond switches. https://focusfusion.pmhclients.com/index.php/site/article/lpp_team_starts_looking_at_ion_beam_energy_extraction/

But I’m not sure if the switches between coil and capacitors are the same ones or identical to those used to fire up the cathodes!