Easy FICS For Your Fusor
Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2018 9:49 pm
Hi Guys,
After the recent success I have had with my FICS reactor I have a suggestion as to how the regular tea kettle fusor can be made more efficient, with a minimum amount of change.
Simply adding a second feedthrough to a steel ball inside the grid and maintaining it at a potential a few kV higher than the grid, it should be possible to light a plasma inside the grid, and create a stream of electrons going inwards. This could be done with two power supplies or with a big zener diode as in my current FICS setup.
If it works the way I expect it will, very few ions will hit the grid, and it won't get hot, electrons won't leak to the shell so the shell won't get hot either. The steel ball on the second grid will only get hit with 5kV electrons so it won't take much heat either.
The only real current used is the differential between the two grids which should send the Q sky high.
Bonus Energy:
The fusion ash being alpha particles and protons will fly radially outwards and hit the shell, thereby carrying positive charges from the grid to the ground, this is effectively contributing to the input power of your fusor or FICS (Fusion Induced Charge Separation)
It's got to be a win, win..
Steven
After the recent success I have had with my FICS reactor I have a suggestion as to how the regular tea kettle fusor can be made more efficient, with a minimum amount of change.
Simply adding a second feedthrough to a steel ball inside the grid and maintaining it at a potential a few kV higher than the grid, it should be possible to light a plasma inside the grid, and create a stream of electrons going inwards. This could be done with two power supplies or with a big zener diode as in my current FICS setup.
If it works the way I expect it will, very few ions will hit the grid, and it won't get hot, electrons won't leak to the shell so the shell won't get hot either. The steel ball on the second grid will only get hit with 5kV electrons so it won't take much heat either.
The only real current used is the differential between the two grids which should send the Q sky high.
Bonus Energy:
The fusion ash being alpha particles and protons will fly radially outwards and hit the shell, thereby carrying positive charges from the grid to the ground, this is effectively contributing to the input power of your fusor or FICS (Fusion Induced Charge Separation)
It's got to be a win, win..
Steven