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Interesting stuff on the HydroStik. I hadn't seen them before. Seems they are made by Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies -- http://www.horizonfuelcell.com/ I gather the original was HydroStik and now there is HydroStik Pro. The charging unit, Hydrofill, also has a Pro version. The spec for HydroStik say...

Richard said, "The plus/minus change should be simple and involve the rectifiers and their connections only." In my post, I was trying to point out that the original design was already a DUAL full wave rectifier, BOTH plus and minus relative to ground. My point was ignore the plus output (or save it...

I was waiting for someone with more real experience to pipe up, but it hasn't happened so I'll add what I'm thinking. The original design is basically two ~63 KV supplies relative to ground. One provides + HV and the other -HV. The xray tube is placed between them so it sees ~125 KV. The two ends of...

It doesn't change anything in the discussion, but I'm pretty sure ebay seller(s) "rockcodfred" and "kephis" is the same person. Not sure why the newer identity.

Wow. Thanks for sharing your great work.

Nice post, Ben. I'm mostly a lurker here. When was your fusion achieved (~2009, 10)? Very nice to see a (young, I assume) fusor constructor go on to joining a team for serious scientific research. Congratulations on being accepted into that realm. On your post, the 3D gif graph with the "shadows" on...

Many of the young people have no idea what it took to connect computers back in the day.

Some (not so young) do.

Well, that's an ugly development. I've been slowly accumulating parts to build a fusor, but I am getting closer. I don't like it, but I guess it isn't surprising that the govt is getting into the middle of this too. I was leaning toward electrolysis anyway but this thread just caused me to order 200...

Charles, I agree with Bruce that you may have a vacuum issue, rather than a meter issue. Everything you have posted about the meter and tube sounds good. I have a Varian 0531 tube here, but no meter, and I have never tried to use it. Your post caused me to try to understand how the meter should work...

John Futter wrote: I would think your vacuum in the chamber is around 0.1 millibar aka 2 x 10 to minus 1 torr.

John, Isn't 0.1 mbar = 0.075 Torr? Not critical to the general discussion, but what pressure did you actually think you were seeing in the plasma?