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NASA always has good papers on all kinds of stuff. Here’s one on synchronization of capacitor banks in discharge,
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19650013566_1965013566.pdf

Something on the switching system used to make it all go *pop*,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignitron

And, as always, there’s the garage-guys’ DIY approach,
http://www.powerlabs.org/capexperiments.htm

Post some specs on what you’re trying to do, please. I’d love to look it over.

Pat

[mchargue]

Glenn Millam wrote:

The key thing is how much energy you actually produce, not whether you are close to equilibrium or not.

And this says a lot about the difference in attitude between big tokamak-based projects and FF. From what I have read, its sounds a lot more like those projects are more interested in controlled scientific discovery and research than they are about creating a power source. As far as I am concerned, if we were getting large amounts of net energy from FF because tiny 10-dimensional space monkeys were found to be dancing inside the plasmoids and making the p-boron fuse, then go, monkey, go!

Well stated.

(Go monkeys!)

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