Trawoeer Power Pyramid Version 12 - Electrical output from a homemade pyramid

[duff]

@Tom

You are a ham.

I was wondering why you did not use your ham rig / 10 meter band to energize the reactor. You would have had a lot more power available to you and it would have been easier to match using your tuner.

Is the frequency used to energize the reactor important?

Is the power level important?

[Trawoeger]

@duff:
Good Idea!
And then the guys will run to the HAM-Stores and they buy the good YAESU´s and ICOM´s just to replicate a TPP V12 

Well, I wanted to show the whole process with absolute easy and everywhere available things (and low cost off course)
I hope, this is a good answer for you..
ng, Tom

[nul-points]

Hi Gang,

Baking sand!

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Ben K4ZEP

hey Ben

i guess your XYL (Mrs K4ZEP) was visiting with friends today - while the best crockery was filled with sand and the oven hijacked for a technical experiment? 

(reminds me of the time Mrs NP came home and found a low-powered LED pulse circuit operating inside the powered-off MWO)

have fun!
np


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[k4zep]

hey Ben

i guess your XYL (Mrs K4ZEP) was visiting with friends today - while the best crockery was filled with sand and the oven hijacked for a technical experiment? 

(reminds me of the time Mrs NP came home and found a low-powered LED pulse circuit operating inside the powered-off MWO)

have fun!

Hi NP,

I have a VERY good XYL!  She just said "clean up after you make a mess!"

Picture below of charging setup.  Right to left, Variac, OLD DVM 0-7500 VAC, Furnace transformer, HV probe, Reactor, top cap and a pint of heated/dried sand too hot to hold yet.  Will give it a whack later this PM.....X your fingers that it works!

Respectfully
Ben K4ZEP

[duff]

I also obtained my sand from pool supply.

Out of curiosity I dropped a neo magnet into the bag to check for iron content.
There were a few grains that stuck but I would not think magnet/non-magnetic grain ratio would greatly influence the reactor.

I'm thinking about removing all sand with iron content from the sand that will go into the reactor.