Single circuits generate nuclear reactions

[mikewatson]

This may be what is happening with my argon tubes as well, I haven't checked for radiation yet.
But Argon 40 would become Chlorine 40 which has a half life of 1.35 min. releasing 7.48 MeV.

AbbaRue,

sorry I cocked up the quote on my last post. Here it is again

It is interesting that all gas discharge tube eventually "run dry". The general theory is that the gas is absorbed into the tube walls or is "gettered" through metal vapour evaporated from the electrodes locking the gas up. Heating the tube does not restore the gas so where has it gone? it would seem it has been transmuted. Some of the transmutation product may be the black deposit around the electrodes, which conventionally is just evaporated electrode metal.  There is appears to be a small amount of radiation from a energy saving fluorescent lamp though a thin metal window going from 0.06 microS/hr background to 0.17 microS/hr, a standard fluorescent tube gives about 0.13 microS/hr on the beta+gamma setting (with a Gamma Scout as used by Naudin)much the same as Naudin was getting in the VSG experiment.

Mike

[sparks]

   Bombarding the neucleus with it's own electrons.  When you consider that the positive charge approaches infinity as you get nearer the proton this is all doable in theory.  Be like slowing down the moon enough to have it impact the Earth.  I'm sure this would result in some energy radiation in addition to the energy gained from the moons inertia.   Lot easier to derail a train than pickit up and set it on the side of the tracks.

[Thaelin]

@ Sparks
   
   You seem very learned about atomic level interactions. I was wondering if there would be
any action between a copper coil and a proton stream? This has been a curiosity of mine.
Thanks

thaelin

[amcha]

Dear All,

I am new to this forum,and wanted to test VSG experiments.
I have build up the system,and will be doing my test in coming days.

Wanted some possible suggestions on how to tune the polarization circuit?

amcha

[mikewatson]

amcha

I will be interested in your results. I have NOT been successful in repeated Naudins claimed output difference. There is a small difference but it is less than about 10% and due to other causes.
What do you mean by "tuning the polarisation" circuit? do you mean the concentric magnetic field arround the carbon rod? it  just uses a coil with the appropriate amp/turns which are pretty easy to calculate.

You may some of the following so excuse me if you do:-
As far as the capacitance voltage switched into the carbon-tungsten junction is concerned Naudin used several different combinations. It usaully depends on you FETs  and the capacitor size. In the last tests I did I used 0.2 Farad at up to 40 volts. I have also used 0.008 F up to 200 volts, and also up to 400 volts using an thyristor switch. The current through the carbon/tungsten was in the region of up to 1000 amps. The current transformer must have a big core to avoid saturation. I use a 500 Watt mains transformer as a toroid and it must be loaded with a low resistor ( as Naudin does) if it is to work as a current transformer. . The carbon tungsten acts as a single turn primary. My transformer has 600 turns on the main (230 V) winding so of not loaded with a resistor you would  get 600* 40 = 24 KV output which would destroy the insulation.
Another point which Naudin does not mention is that the effect of passing a current pulse through a toroid causes it to become semi-permanently magnetised (due to hysteresis of the B-H curve). So after each pusle the core needs restoring to the zero magnetic state by passing an gradually decreasing AC current through one of the unused windings on the toroid. I use a variac to do that. If this is not done the next discharge pulse passed through the carbon tungsten will have a different amplitude due to toroidal core polarisation.

Finally there is a lot to be said for using a 0.01 ohm (50 W) series resistor instead of a current transformer, you get a much better waveform resolution.  A storage scope is also essential to see what is going on.

Mike