Single circuits generate nuclear reactions

[ramset]

Mike Watson It was Uncle fester
Have you heard from Feynman ?
   Chet

[Thaelin]

Hi all:
   Well I have an idea that this is very close to the same idea that is used on Nadines site. Only there
he is useing a gap inside the torrid. With good results I might add. The only draw back is the radiations
emitted from it. For the most part, they are less than you get normally. But on occasion, there is a large
emission as well. That over time can spell a problem.
   It was explained to me along the lines of transmutation of the carbon rod. When this happens, there is
a liberation of excess electrons as well. That captured by the torrid. I am not in a position to find lead sheets
to make a box around the spark area so dont want to mess with it. Still it shows great promise to me. Just
dont want to rile the locals using solid lead to incase it with. You start saying things like that and you might
wind up with a visit from unwanted folks.
   If I remember the name right, Bruce Perault? was into this tech a while back. Have not heard a peep out of
him in a long time tho. ??

thaelin

[BEP]

   If I remember the name right, Bruce Perault? was into this tech a while back. Have not heard a peep out of
him in a long time tho. ??

thaelin

If you mean BEP then yes. I'm very much into it. Sorry, my username has nothing to do with Bruce Perault. My expirence with this tech riled folks and seemd to make them shoot off in ridiculous directions so I shut up.
Someone was trying to associate that name with my handle some time back, incorrectly.

[Thaelin]

   Actually, I never even made the connect.    Besides, you have a totally different writing style about you.
You talk of being into ham radio, he wasn't to my knowledge. Many differences.

   Anyhow, I still remember the looks I got when I started asking around for sheet lead. Decided it was better
to let that one go. I even have the thoriated tungsten rods here some where. I kept burning out the fets with
the coils so quit it. Never picked it back up again. Been working on my E-Bike a lot and a gravity asist gen to boot.
But then thats off topic so better stay on line.

thaelin

[mikewatson]

I have been silent for a couple of weeks to give me time to build a FET circuit, similar to Naudin's, for use in place of my thyristor set up.
Using a thyristor switched circuit, I was unable to replicate Naudin's reported difference due to magnetic polarisation of the carbon although I did get a perfectly repeatable different effect using a ferrite ring as saturable reactor, with the same carbon polarisation method, so there is an underlying process which is real enough.

My FET circuit uses five parallel connected IRFB3077PbF FETs. These have an very small ON resistance of 3.3 mOhms max and a pulsed drain current of 850 amps giving a 4250 amp capability. Each FET is driven by a MCP1406 MOSfet driver. The capacitors are two parallel connected 0.1 Farad 40 Volt capacitors giving 0.2 F total capacitance. The trigger pulse was either a function generator or a 555 set to 40 msecs pulse width so the FET were ON for this time.

Using the FET circuit, I was suprised to find no difference whatever with magnetic polarisation of the carbon, even with the small ferrite saturable reactor added which worked well with the thyristor circuit.
Saturation of the toroidal current transformer was avoided by cutting a 1mm airgap in it, The inductance of the gapped toroid is 100 mH and the flux decays after a pulse with an L/R time constant depending on the current transformer load resistance R, otherwise the gap has no effect on the behaviour of the current transformer.
So I returned to the thyristor circuit to get a clue as to why the FET circuit produces no effect. Here the capacitance is 0.008 F substantially smaller than that of the FET circuit and I found that running the thyristor circuit at 40 Volts also produces no effect with carbon polarisation, however 60 volts or so did start to show something which suggests the voltage (and most probably the current) is crucial.
This opens up the possibility that the current/voltage is critical in Naudin's result, anyting either side and the effect dissappears? Naudin may have just fiddled about until he got the critical voltage/current etc
All this is on going and I might discover something which alters the above view.
Finally, I still see no Beta radiation and my geiger counter counts 1.2 MEV Beta perfectly. Like I think Uncle Fester said Naudin's readings are probably electrical noise pickup  from the edges of the pulses used.

Mike