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mchargue wrote:
Unless & until a better mechanism is put in place to resolve timing issues between switches, I’m not sure that you’d want to increase the count of them.
As for lower voltage, I think the plan is to increase the voltage in order to increase the amperage, so lowed voltages probably could not be a goal.
My $.02
Pat

I believe you misunderstood my “lover voltage” quote. I mean if you put a lot of switches in serial connection then they should be able to switch higher voltages together than each one separately.
On the other hand if you connect a lot of switches in parallel then they can switch higher current together than separately.
And if you take a lot of switches and connect them in serial and then connect those switching blocks in parallel, then you should be able to deal both with high voltage and current.
To illustrate:
http://imgur.com/xG1E6
B) is for voltage, C) is for current D)and E) is basically the same (E might have more tolerance).

I think better mechanism for switching is easier to find in lower voltage/lower amperage area. Transistors for example, still I am all about vacuum tubes, because they are cooler ;). Of course I am don’t have much understanding in EE, so probably the switching speed could be insufficient. Still I would be really excited about this idea if it could prove viable, as it seems to me it would allow folk outside of LPP to contribute some serious R&D in an open-source manner without having a fusion lab.