Single circuits generate nuclear reactions

[Yucca]

I've just been messing around with 1000uF (1mF) caps charged to 64V. I discharge them through the carbon rod using a touch contact (thoriated tungsten) by hand, this gives a fast arc discharge and a fairly quick rise time on the carbon rod current.

This is by no means a serious replication of the experiment yet. I'm just playing, looking at transients etc. and enjoying the sparks. I use a thoriated tungsten rod as the discharge contact.  I need bigger caps and a way to make a decent B field, maybe I need a finer guage toroid winding with more turns.

In the scope shot the larger pulse (ch1) is the carbon rod current, the carbon rod is 0.8ohm so call it 1 you can read volts as amps. The smaller pulse is the toroid voltage, it's loaded with 7ohm.

[Yucca]

All parts and components for my VSG are now ready. Only thing that prevents me from firing it at this very moment is a Geiger Counter. I will start testing tomorrow if I can get my hands on one.

Thanks,

Miki.

Miki, I look forward to your test fires, maybe you could start firing without your geiger counter if you put your reactor behind a plastic chopping board or some other nice thick plastic. But I agree with you, it's nice to know if you're getting radiation and a geiger counters always a handy thing to have. Good luck!

[miki02131]

Hi Yucca,

Circuit is now completely setup and ready. The only reason I haven't fired it up yet is the radiation issue. I am thinking about building a water enclosure around the device. This might help protect me but without the Geiger counter I won't know the level of nuclear effect that may occur. Stay tuned, I will post my observations as soon as I fire it up.

Thanks,

Miki.

[UncleFester]

Use 1/8" aluminum. I'm not seeing any beta beyond the aluminum plate and I have seen some wild reactions while running continuously.

P.S.

Don't need tungsten (already tested)
Don't need a coil for B-field, use any magnetic source (already tested)
Don't need a toroidal transformer (tested multiple times with coils wound on any pipe or plastic form, same power with those as toroid)
Appears as though you dont even need any type of arc (tested good and running more tests)
Whatever you input frequency, will be your output frequency. (tested for many hours)
Looping output from toroid to input can be dangerous (runs away - tested two times and stopped)
Don't run without shielding (I ran a few times without shield and had a camera and calculator fried, they were sitting 1.5 feet away) (geiger did not measure dangerous levels though)

B-field strength and input voltage and current determine output voltage and current. The higher the b-field, the more current, the higher the capacitance on input, the higher the current and voltage on output. Tested over and over for many hours. It all appears to be interrelated and needs adjustment to make useful mains power. Other than that the sine wave off the toroid is very clean and stable, even nicer than mains power, no glitches, spikes or anything. Getting a stable 158VAC @ 60Hz on toroid windings but very little current due to not being able to capture as much beta as is available from the reaction. However if I load the windings heavily, the voltage does not drop!!! Very Strange!

More to come.....

[tak22]

Tad, I'm giving you the "OU teaser post of the year" award 

Sure sounds like you've stripped it down to the bare essentials and are getting significant results!

How long will we have to wait for the details? Excitedly awaiting .........

tak