Right now, there are 12 capacitors, each with its own switch, used for powering each pulse. The diamond switch will be used in Phase 2 to collect energy from the ion beam after a pulse. The diamond switch will have to allow current to flow into capacitors as the ions are approaching the coil and slowing down, and then quickly turn off so the coil and capacitors don’t expend the collected energy to re-accelerate the ions. Perhaps as time goes by and further development happens, we can use a single capacitor bank with two diamond switches, one for initiating the pulse and the other on the capture side. Maybe on FF-2.
