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Nice work, Rapp, your posts are always an enjoyable read.

Keep the updates coming.

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> "Do you mean you removed the wire from the cap to the switch and connected the coil directly to the cap?" Correct. > "Did you do any kind of resonance calculation to design the coil?" Negatory. > "I used a Rigol DSA815 to detect any resonance – but unfortunately it did not work." Those low VSWR po...

Another update/photo, as of June. I've got a lot of projects I'm working on right now. Among them, bringing a refurbished 100kV multiplier tower online for my setup. I'm also investigated a long term solution to remote operability, seeing as how my equipment is now interface-friendly. -RT P.S. @Wern...

I'm definitely envious of the nice work space!

This'll be a very fruitful project obviously.

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*beep* Mission control, we have a bubble. *beep*

Hi Mike, Thank you! It's a very stable and prolific source of neutrons, what few occasional increases/drops in vacuum chamber pressure that occur are caused by variations in pressure within my electrolysis system (soon to be replaced by another lecture bottle of deuterium gas.) Tank gas and a good r...

Steven, The zener circuit is a common approach, while that particular picture was done by Ying Wu, I made some corrections in photoshop. I believe Ying Wu's collection of zeners added up to ~1400V, and that was why the value was chosen. The ∆V for a successful zener suppression system can be as low ...

This is a .pdf of my accelerator talk presented at HEAS 2015.

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Congratulations to the both of you, a model effort!

Like Richard said, excellent report - I wish they were all like this.

I look forward to seeing one or both of you at HEAS this year.

-RT

Some more recent photos and video of things, having just boosted the beam output to about a milliamp.

Youtube link: https://youtu.be/mdv4KpYKKJk

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