Reply To: What are you doing to promote Focus Fusion…

[Allan Brewer]

Aeronaut wrote:
We’ll probably always need caps and switches to fire the first shot in a resonant circuit that could eliminate the question of the cap bank’s rated life at any given voltage. How to do that with only one or a handful of FF cores and cap banks will have a lot to do with who leads the initial manufacturing market due to elegant system design producing the reliability and price points required at any point in the adoption timeframe.

Even without a resonant circuit, if there was a sufficiently high capacitance (say to cover 3 or 4 shots), then a basic switch could be used to start up a single machine, the current would probably ramp up too slowly for plasmoid formation on the first couple of shots, but once the current is up then the machine could perhaps keep cycling contiguously without any hi-tec switches, so that as one plasmoid detaches, a new discharge starts the axial phase for the following plasmoid??