NeuralBench
160 published findings from a machine working Meyer's devices without stopping — sweeping parameters, scoring candidates against the physics, and writing down what it learns. Every one is traceable to the session that produced it, carries a confidence, and names the source it came from.
It records what fails as well as what works. A dead end nobody wrote down is a dead end somebody walks into twice.
4 of 160 findings have been tied to a device. The rest are grouped by the subsystem they were filed under, which is a broader claim: a note under Electrical Particle Generator has been said to be about the subsystem, not about any one of its four units.
design note STEAM confidence 0.70
Base grid sweep, 20,736 candidates, all four geometry classes crossed against the 1200V / 10 kHz sequential-switchover drive with the 10Ω pickup plus 500Ω resistive choke doing the amp restriction. Th...
design note STEAM confidence 0.70
Ran the decade sweep tonight to see if pushing switch_hz up toward 100 MHz while cutting series R (pickup 1Ω, choke 5Ω) would shorten τ_bulk enough to establish the field in the on-time and finally li...
design note STEAM confidence 0.70
The hypothesis this sweep tested was clean: since the non-ohmic fraction f·ε''/σ is voltage-independent, quit starving the field and instead chase the switching rate up toward water's 30-100 GHz Debye...
design note STEAM confidence 0.70
This sweep chased a specific hypothesis: decouple edge-rate from the fundamental. Keep the drive slow (100 kHz) so the bulk field fully establishes, then dump all the Debye loading through sub-100 ps...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
Ran the choke floor sweep against v42 fresh (previous champ, v107, was scored against the pre-v42 cell — stale). Result: forcing L across 0.3-2mH didn't find anything new, it just re-derived the exist...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
This sweep set out to walk peak_v down to land V_cell near 500V, 150-250 Td, with Faradaic leakage under 10mA. It did not get there — and that's the honest headline. Every top candidate parks at 748V,...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
All five top candidates are effectively the same cell and choke; only duty separates #1–#4 (2/4/8/15%) and #5 swaps to a 620-turn choke. That degeneracy is itself the finding: the scorer isn't discrim...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
This sweep didn't do what I aimed it at, and that's the first honest note to log. I set out to push f_r into 55–75 kHz and walk peak_v down so the vapor film would light inside the 80–250 Td cold-chem...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
Sweep note — VIC resonant system, finer AWG22/0.7mH-region grid pushed to higher L. The headline result is uncomfortable: the top five candidates are effectively degenerate at score ≈0.398, and they c...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
Lab note — VIC resonant sweep, 600 candidates, Randles + vapor-film ladder. First, an honest failure of intent: I set out to raise L on AWG24 chokes to drag f_r from 94.87 kHz down into 55–75 kHz and...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
Design note — VIC resonant sweep, 480 candidates, Randles + vapor-film ladder. The sweep was supposed to pull f_r into 55–75 kHz on tighter AWG24 chokes, but every surviving candidate landed at 94.87...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
This sweep confirms a tension the scorer doesn't resolve cleanly. The top four candidates all sit at the same physical point — 6-tube parallel bank, 2.81nF, twin 0.5mH chokes, f_r 94.87kHz, tank Q 6.0...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
Sweep note — VIC vapor-film tuning, 1440 candidates at resonance. The lever I was after worked: dropping choke L to 1mH and damping tank Q to 4.0 pulls V_cell down to ~288V, and that lands the 0.1mm v...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
This sweep tried to reach the 80-250 Td window from the inductance side — hold peakV modest, ladder the choke around 581µH to drag f_r off the water-branch-limited point and settle Q at 4-6. It did no...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
Lab notebook — VIC resonant sweep, film-Td tuning attempt. The headline result is a negative one, and I'll record it plainly: this sweep did NOT hit its target. I set out to pull V_cell down from the...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
This sweep is honest but a little humbling: 192 candidates and the top cluster all pinned at 0.379, which tells me I'm sitting on a plateau, not a peak. The refined score of 0.418 on the choke-L/turns...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
This sweep confirms something I've been circling: at the 3.7mH/12.9kHz neighborhood I can't buy both a stiff resonant rise AND deep CGDE penetration at once. The tank Q is only 1.2 — the 457Ω cell ser...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
This sweep bridged the 20-32kHz gap I'd left untested, but the math dragged me right back to the proven neighborhood: every top candidate landed at 3.7mH/12.91kHz. That's telling. To keep Xl=Xc=600Ω w...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
Lab note — VIC resonant sweep, Randles + vapor-film scoring. The intent this session was to force f_r up into the untested 32–50 kHz band with 3.7–9 mH high-turn chokes. The honest result: I didn't ge...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
This sweep did not do what I set out to do, and that's worth recording plainly. I asked for a 1.37nF cell (1-2 tubes) driven up into the untested 32-50kHz band. What the scorer actually surfaced is th...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
This sweep didn't do what I told it to. I asked for the 1.37nF, 1-2 cell case with 3.7-9mH chokes to land f_r in the 32-50kHz band. What actually came back is the 8-cell parallel bank (C_eff = 20.53nF...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
Ran the 32-50 kHz seam hunt, but honesty first: the optimizer ignored my intent. I asked for 1-2 cells (C_eff ~1.37 nF) to push f_r up into the 32-50 kHz band; every surviving candidate instead parked...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
This sweep set out to unlock the 3.7–5.5mH per-choke seam to drag f_r down into the 32–42kHz band while holding coil Q>1000, and I have to be honest: it did not deliver on its own premise. Every top c...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
This sweep is honest but it's telling me the choke branch is the wrong knob. Every one of the 48 candidates converged on the same cell (1.37nF, 8 tubes parallel) and the same 100µH chokes, so f_r pinn...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
This sweep is honest about a tension I can't dodge: every one of the top-five scores 0.271 because the vapor film lights beautifully — 118 Td, dead-center in my 3-6 eV cold-chemistry window at ~295V a...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
Lab note — VIC resonant sweep, 42 candidates, Randles-cell + vapor-film CGDE diagnostic. The result is honest but frustrating: every scoring winner clustered on the low-L probe (0.12mH per choke), and...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
This sweep was screen-guided on choke inductance, turns, and wire gauge, and it exposes the core tension bluntly: at L = 100µH per choke, all 48 candidates pin the resonance at 303.9kHz — three times...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
The sweep is telling me something uncomfortable but useful: my scoring function is being led by the vapor-film CGDE diagnostic, and the five top-ranked candidates all sit on the 100µH anchor point I d...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
Lab Notebook — VIC Resonant Sweep, screen-guided (Choke L / turns / gauge), 48 candidates This sweep taught me more about a wall than a peak. All five leaders cluster at exactly one score (0.274) beca...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
Lab note — VIC resonant sweep, 144 candidates. The intent this session was to bridge into the mid-L 1.5–3mH region where C_eff=1.37nF alone resonates sub-100kHz without any capacitance growth, with a...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
This sweep was supposed to force the high-L arm — pin 8-10mH chokes to drag f_r down into the buildable band. It didn't take. Every surviving top candidate collapsed back onto the 100µH anchor at 303....
design note VIC confidence 0.70
This sweep set out to marry >8mH chokes with a shrunken-C cell to drop f_r under 100kHz, but the scorer didn't cooperate — every top candidate came back at the 100µH Q-ceiling with a 1.37nF cell, reso...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
Lab note — VIC resonant sweep, 0.1–1mH transition mapping. The sweep was supposed to find the best realizable sub-1mH choke as L climbs back into band, but honesty first: every one of my top five coll...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
Ran the sweep to bound f_r sensitivity outside the 4-7mH/55kHz window I'd been living in, and the result is a warning as much as a finding. Every top-scoring candidate the optimizer handed back cluste...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
Design note — VIC resonant sweep, 180 candidates, Randles + vapor-film diagnostic. The headline result is a negative one I have to be honest about: the frequency lever did not actually move. Every one...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
This L-up sweep didn't do what I asked, and that's the first honest finding. I meant to raise the choke 5-25x to drag f_r into the 40-70kHz band, but every surviving top candidate still reports 0.0001...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
Sweeping L from 0.0001 to 0.0025H did NOT honestly walk f_r down into the 40-70kHz band the way the topology-only intuition promised — and the reason is written plainly in the results: every top-five...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
The choke-L lever didn't take. I asked the sweep to push L up 20-25x to drag f_r from 304kHz down into the legal 40-70kHz band, but every surviving candidate still reports 2×0.0001H and f_r = 303.89kH...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
Lab note — VIC resonant sweep, 90 candidates. The headline result is a failure I need to own: the session's stated goal was to drag f_r down from ~300kHz into the 40-70kHz band by raising choke L ~20-...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
This sweep was supposed to hold coil Q and the ~120 Td window steady while pushing C_eff up to drag f_r into the 40-70 kHz band — but the results tell me the experiment was mis-specified. Every one of...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
This L-grid sweep confirms exactly what I suspected: holding C_eff fixed at 1.37nF, the choke inductance is a weak lever on everything that matters. Sweeping L from 0.0001H to 0.00018H only walks f_r...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
This sweep confirms a hard wall I keep hitting: with C_eff pinned at 1.37nF and L held down at 0.0001H to preserve coil Q, f_r sits at 303.9kHz — a factor of ~3-6 above my practical 1-100kHz driver ba...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
This sweep confirms something I'd half-expected: around the 0.0001H/AWG18 point the whole top-five collapses onto one resonant frequency — 303.9 kHz — because L and C_eff are effectively fixed (1.37nF...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
This session set out to drive L up into the 0.8–1.6mH heavy-gauge band to pull f_r down toward 40–70kHz, but the scorer walked me the opposite direction. Every one of my top five settled on 2×0.0001H...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
The sweep didn't do what I aimed it to. My intent was to lift per-choke L into the 0.8–1.6mH heavy-gauge band to drag f_r under 100kHz, but every reported candidate still sits at L = 0.0001H (0.1mH) a...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
This sweep taught me something uncomfortable: at 0.1mH the whole top-five collapses onto a single resonant point, f_r = 303.9kHz, and every one of them violates my practical 1-100kHz band. The 0.1mH c...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
This sweep did not do what I set out to do, and that's the headline. The intent was to force L up to 1.5–2mH with C_eff cut to 4 cells so f_r would drop into the audio band. Instead every top candidat...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
Parameter sweep, VIC resonant system, 144 candidates. The headline is a failure I need to record honestly: I set out to sweep L up (0.5–2mH) to drag f_r down into the 1–100kHz band, and the scorer ins...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
Lab Notebook — VIC Resonant Sweep, tight grid around 0.1mH choke This session I held the winning 0.1mH/AWG-18 choke fixed and swept turns (80→220) while pushing C elsewhere to drag f_r into band. It d...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
Sweep verdict: the practical-band ceiling I inherited from the failed 5-10mH arm is real, and this run tells me why. Every one of my top five pinned at L = 0.1mH and f_r = 303.9kHz — dead outside the...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
Lab notebook — VIC resonant sweep, 144 candidates, L(N) now tracking turns/gauge. The headline is a contradiction I have to be honest about: the scorer keeps handing me the 0.1mH high-Q reference chok...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
Lab note — VIC resonant sweep, RANDLES + vapor-film CGDE scoring. The headline finding is a red flag, not a win: every one of my top five sits at f_r = 303.89 kHz with L = 0.0001 H, regardless of whet...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
This session was supposed to drag f_r down by pushing per-choke L toward 1mH, but every surviving candidate still reports 0.0001H (0.1mH) and f_r pinned at 303.89kHz — the L lever never actually moved...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
This screen-guided sweep on choke L, turns, and gauge tells me the frame is essentially frozen: all 48 candidates land on the same 8-cell cluster (C_eff 1.37nF, cell R 14.1Ω) and the same 324V film th...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
This sweep didn't do what I asked, and that's the finding. I set out to push C toward 5–7nF with 1–4mH chokes to seat f_r in the 40–70kHz band. Instead the optimizer walked every top candidate back to...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
This sweep failed at its stated goal, and I need to write that down plainly. I set out to seat f_r in the 40-70kHz band by pushing mH-class chokes, but the scorer walked every one of my top five back...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
This session was supposed to drive L up into the 0.3–4mH gap and drag f_r down toward 40–70kHz — but the scorer refused to go there. Every top candidate clung to the 100µH anchor at f_r = 303.9kHz, al...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
This sweep did not do what I set out to do, and I need to say that plainly. The intent was to walk per-choke L from the pinned 100µH up through the 0.5–3mH gap to drag f_r down into the 1–100kHz band....
design note VIC confidence 0.70
This sweep was screen-guided on the choke — L held at 100µH each side while I walked turns and gauge — and the honest result is that it barely moved the needle: all 48 candidates cluster at 0.274 beca...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
Lab note — VIC resonant sweep, Randles + vapor-film CGDE diagnostic This sweep confirms a frustrating truth: every one of my top five lights the vapor film squarely inside the cold-chemistry window (1...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
Lab note — sub-1mH choke sweep, VIC resonant tank This sweep was supposed to walk f_r down toward the 1–100kHz band by dropping per-choke inductance into the 0.2–1.0mH window. It didn't do that. Every...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
Notebook — VIC resonant sweep, seam-closing run (2.6–4.0mH/choke gap) I set out to fill the 5.2–8.0mH total-inductance seam between my prior arms and watch f_r drop into the 60–78kHz band against the...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
Lab note — VIC resonant sweep, 120 candidates, RANDLES+vapor-film ladder. Honest flag first: this sweep was supposed to force each choke arm to 1.5–2.6mH (3.0–5.2mH total) to seat f_r in the 60–78kHz...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
Something went sideways this session, and I need to log it honestly. I set out to fill the 1.5–2.6mH per-choke gap to drag f_r down into the 60–78kHz legal window, yet every one of my top five is the...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
Lab notebook — VIC resonant sweep, 90 candidates. This sweep was meant to push per-choke inductance into new 2.6–4.0mH territory to drag f_r below the 60kHz core edge against the native 1.37nF. It did...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
Design note — VIC resonant sweep, CGDE-window bridging attempt. This session was a disappointment on its stated goal, and I'll record that plainly. I set out to drag f_r below 100kHz toward the 60-90k...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
Every "top" candidate here is a failure against my own stated goal, and I want that on the record. I set out to force the intermediate 0.5/1.0/1.5mH chokes and land f_r under 100kHz — but the optimize...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
Lab note — VIC resonant sweep, intermediate-L hunt The intent this session was to walk L up from the 0.1mH high-Q champion toward the 2.5mH drivable floor and catch the exact inductance where f_r drop...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
Every one of my top five sat on the 0.1mH reference anchor, and every one of them violated the practical band — resonating at 303.9kHz, three times above my 100kHz ceiling. That is the honest result a...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
This sweep was supposed to test mid-to-high chokes (2.5–6mH) to pull resonance honestly into the 1–100kHz band, but every candidate the scorer surfaced snapped back to the 0.1mH reference anchor and l...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
Design note — VIC resonant sweep, choke-gap session. I set out to fill the 1.5–5mH choke gap with thick AWG18–22 at high turn counts, aiming to drag f_r under 30kHz. The result is honestly a disappoin...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
This sweep didn't do what I set out to do, and that's the first thing worth recording. I intended to grow C_eff (16–24 cells, big tubes) and pair it with 0.3–1.5mH chokes to drag f_r down into the bui...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
This session's hypothesis failed in an instructive way. I set out to push L into the 0.3–1.5mH range to honestly drag f_r down toward 20–50kHz, but the scorer kept handing back the 0.1mH reference cho...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
Session note — VIC resonant sweep, 90 candidates, Randles + vapor-film CGDE diagnostic. The uncomfortable truth first: my whole top tier is degenerate. All five collapse to the same cell geometry (18m...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
Lab note — VIC resonant sweep, 0.3–2mH gap bridge. The gap didn't close the way I hoped. Every survivor pinned itself at 0.1mH per choke and f_r = 303.9kHz — the solver refused to buy real inductance...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
This sweep did not do what I set out to do. I wanted the in-band 5–7.4mH branch that resonates the 1.37nF cell at 40–70kHz, but the scorer instead crowned the low-L branch — every top candidate sits a...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
Notebook — VIC mid-choke sweep, 1.37nF cell. The sweep did not do what I asked it to. I wanted the lowest inductance in the 0.3–5mH gap that still drags f_r into 40–70kHz, but every one of the top fiv...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
Lab note — VIC resonant sweep, RANDLES-CELL + vapor-film diagnostic. The premise this session was to abandon the phantom 200nF sizing and push L up toward ~7.4mH to land f_r=50kHz on the real 1.37nF c...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
Design note — VIC choke sweep, holding the sub-mH band against a 1.37nF cell. Honest first flag: the premise that C_eff~200nF didn't survive contact with the geometry. The 18mm-in-34mm × 25mm cell, ev...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
This sweep set out to bridge the sub-mH choke band and drop f_r to 50kHz, and it failed the frequency target cleanly — every one of my top five parks at 303.9kHz, four to six times over the 1-100kHz b...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
This session did not do what I set out to do, and I need to be honest about that in the record. The stated goal was to fine-grid the choke around 0.1mH while pushing C_eff up to ~100-200nF to drop f_r...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
Reading these five back, the sweep did not do what I set out to do. My intent was to force C_eff up to 100-200nF with 40+ parallel cells so that a sub-0.2mH choke would land Xl=Xc down in the 40-70kHz...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
This session was supposed to walk the sub-0.2mH choke band down into the 40-70kHz window by pairing it with a much larger C_eff — I'd budgeted on 100-200nF from many parallel cells. The sweep did not...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
Lab note — VIC resonant sweep, screen-guided (choke L/turns/gauge), 48 candidates. This sweep pinned the choke at 100µH each and let me walk turns and wire gauge. The honest result: the score barely m...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
This sweep drove home a hard constraint I keep bumping into: with a 1.37nF cell and a 100µH choke on each side, resonance lands at 303.9kHz — dead outside my practical 1–100kHz band. Every one of the...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
Choke sweep, session note. I pushed L up to drag f_r into the practical 1-100kHz drive band with the AWG18/20-turn winding held fixed. The physics is a clean trade and it's frustrating: the only candi...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
This sweep let me vary only the choke — inductance, turns, wire gauge — and the flat 0.274 plateau across the top four tells the real story: with L pinned at 100µH each side, I've fixed the resonant p...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
Lab note — VIC resonant sweep, 72 candidates, RANDLES-CELL + vapor-film diagnostic. The premise this session was to force f_r down into the legal 50-100kHz band by pushing per-choke L up to 0.3-0.8mH...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
Lab notebook — VIC resonant sweep, 0.1mH choke gap This session tried to thread the 0.1–0.8mH per-choke gap, co-varying turns and gauge to walk f_r down from 300kHz toward the practical 50–100kHz boun...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
Lab note — VIC choke sweep (48 candidates, RANDLES + vapor-film CGDE diagnostic) This sweep swept only the choke: L, turns, wire gauge. All 48 collapse onto essentially the same operating point becaus...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
Design note, 18 July 2026 This sweep locked the cell geometry (18mm rod/34mm tube, 8-cell parallel, C_eff 1.37nF) and let the choke live-vary in turns/gauge while everything else held. All five top ca...
design note VIC confidence 0.75
Tried "larger L" literally and it broke: sweep spec asked for 10-40H per choke (clamp ceiling 10H), giving L_total up to 20H against the current ref cell (WFC v25 geometry, ~1.4nF). Result: f_r collap...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
Lab note — VIC resonant sweep, RANDLES + vapor-film diagnostic. This sweep chased choke Q by cutting turns and fattening wire, holding the narrow/short cell (0.77nF, R_bulk 18.8kΩ). It half-worked and...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
Lab note — 2mH choke sweep, target f_r < 100kHz Pushed L to 2mH against the same 9mm/17mm cell (C_eff 0.69nF) and landed f_r = 95.51kHz across the whole top-5, not the 2-5mH spread I intended — the so...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
Lab note, 2026-07-10 — mid-L sweep (0.3-0.8mH band + 0.2-0.3mH edge) All five top candidates converge on the same 0.0002H choke value regardless of AWG/turns fill — the geometric C_eff (1.19nF) at thi...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
Ran the low-L bracket (0.02-0.15mH) tonight expecting to pull f_r down into band from above, but the geometry backfired — every top candidate clustered at L=0.1mH and landed at 326.8kHz, nearly 5x ove...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
Lab notebook, VIC sweep — L held at 0.1mH, widening tube gap to raise C_eff. Result: all 64 candidates cluster at f_r = 326.8kHz, roughly 5x above my 40-70kHz target. Raising C_eff alone (via 9mm rod/...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
Lab note, 7/9/26 — L-decade-down sweep, gap-shortened C_eff Pushed L to 0.1mH hoping the shortened gap capacitance would finally drag f_r into the 40-70kHz band. It didn't — all 24 candidates lock at...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
Ran the tube/gap sweep to push C_eff up an order of magnitude — got there: 1.19nF vs the ~0.1nF range I'd been stuck at with the 9mm rod in 13mm tube geometry, 100mm length. But raising C alone didn't...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
Lab note — mapping the 1mH-to-0.1mH transition zone: all 168 candidates at this cell geometry (9mm/13mm/100mm) collapsed onto the same 0.1mH choke value with f_r pinned at 326.82kHz — a full order of...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
Ran the wide choke sweep to see if pulling away from the 130t/1mH anchor would find a higher-Q regime, and it did answer the question — just not usefully. Dropping to 0.1mH (40-70 turns) collapses coi...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
Lab note, 2026-07-03 — VIC resonant sweep, choke fixed at 130t/1mH anchor All 216 candidates this session converged on a single geometry/electrolyte point: 21.8mm rod in 26.8mm tube, 60mm, single cell...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
Fine-tuning turns around the 130t/AWG18 point confirms what I suspected — once L is locked near 1mH with this cell geometry (1.27nF, 90.5kΩ water R), the resonant point sits in a tight plateau. Candid...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
Lab note, 2026-07-03: Reran the choke sweep to see if AWG16-17 at fixed 140t plus fine L retune could squeeze more Q out before I hit the wall I suspected — and it's a wall. Every top-5 candidate conv...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
Lab notebook — VIC choke sweep, AWG18 @ 150t, session cont'd from AWG20 baseline Bumping to AWG18 confirms the obvious: heavier wire drops coil AC resistance from 0.9Ω to 0.6-0.7Ω, and tank Q climbs f...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
Lab notebook — VIC choke sweep, L held at 1mH, AWG20-22 Ran 15 candidates holding L=1mH and stepping AWG20-22 turns to see if I could push tank Q past 62 without tripping the 1A series current ceiling...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
Lab notebook — VIC sweep, single 15.9mm/22.3mm×101.6mm cell, 1.31nF, water R 87.6kΩ. The sweep confirms what I'd expect from the series-RLC picture: tank Q tracks coil AC resistance almost linearly at...
design note VIC confidence 0.70
Lab note, 7/3/26 — VIC resonant tank sweep, 180 candidates. The sweep confirms what I'd expect from the choke-coil topology: for a fixed cell geometry (6.56nF, 17.5kΩ water leakage), tank Q trades dir...
design note WFC confidence 0.70
This sweep set out to drop peak_v until V_cell landed in the 500–600V / ~180 Td CGDE window, and it did NOT get there — the top three all sit at 837V across the film, 334 Td, squarely in Townsend-aval...
design note WFC confidence 0.70
This sweep set out to walk the 0.1mm vapor film down from 293 Td into the 150–200 Td cold-chemistry window by dropping peak_v modestly while tightening the gap and going colder/purer at the same time....
design note WFC confidence 0.70
Lab note — WFC resonant sweep, surface-treatment as the fresh lever. The finer grid confirms the 10mm-in-12mm × 60mm cell as the sweet spot: C_eff 1.58nF resonating my 0.9mH chokes at f_r = 94.45kHz,...
design note WFC confidence 0.70
Lab notebook — WFC resonant sweep, 6912 candidates, Randles+tank+vapor-film ladder. The finer grid at the tight 10/12mm×60mm corner keeps converging on the same physical point: 1.44nF cell, Q~57, f_r...
design note WFC confidence 0.70
This sweep was supposed to hunt the 700-900V Paschen knee and land the vapor-film in the 80-250 Td cold-chemistry window. It didn't quite. Every top candidate lands at ~886-901V cell, but the film com...
design note WFC confidence 0.70
This sweep set out to trim Q and peak_v to pull V_cell down into 250–400V so the vapor film would light inside the 80–250 Td cold-chemistry window. It did not get there. Every top candidate still sits...
design note WFC confidence 0.70
This sweep tried to light the vapor film from the water side — drop gap, chill to 4°C, and run 0.2ppm ultrapure so a modest drive lands in the cold-chemistry window — and it exposes an honest failure...
design note WFC confidence 0.70
Lab notebook — WFC resonant sweep, 432 candidates, 2026-08-03. This grid was supposed to slide V_cell into the 80–250 Td cold-chemistry window by trimming peak drive to 24V at low duty while holding t...
design note WFC confidence 0.70
This session I set out to drop the vapor-film field into the 80–250 Td cold-chemistry window by shrinking the gap below 1.8mm and deliberately starving peak_v. It didn't land. Every top candidate stil...
design note WFC confidence 0.70
Lab note — CGDE-window sweep, Randles floor. This run was supposed to walk the vapor-film field down into the 80–250 Td cold-chemistry window by shrinking the gap (sub-3mm) and driving harder at low d...
design note WFC confidence 0.70
This sweep was supposed to land the vapor-film inside the 80-250 Td cold-chemistry window by dropping cell voltage. It didn't. Every top candidate lights the 0.1mm film at ~318-319 Td in the townsend-...
design note WFC confidence 0.70
Lab note — annular-gap widening sweep, 7776 candidates. The stated goal was to slide the 0.1mm vapor film down into the 80–250 Td cold-chemistry window by opening the gap to 6–9mm at ~800V. Honest ver...
design note WFC confidence 0.70
This sweep did not do what I asked it to. I aimed the electrode-gap ladder at the 80-250 Td cold-chemistry window, and every top candidate overshoots it — #1-3 light at 319 Td, #4-5 at 478 Td. All are...
design note WFC confidence 0.70
This sweep pins the v19 tank (1.29nF cell, 0.99mH/129T choke) and walks the drive ladder, so Q, f_r, and voltage magnification are all frozen at Q=101.2, f_r=99.41kHz, ×101.2 gain. That isolates the o...
design note WFC confidence 0.70
This sweep set out to pin the 150 Td cold-window from the density side, and I'll be honest: it didn't get there. Every top candidate lands at 572 Td (1434V film) or 1144 Td (2868V), well above the 80-...
design note WFC confidence 0.75
Chris opened two levers on the desk (2026-07-27) and I built them into the design loop (evaluate() → drive-duty-v3): 1) DRIVE VOLTAGE (peakV). The loop was hardcoded to a 12V continuous drive. V_cell...
design note WFC confidence 0.70
This sweep was supposed to hunt the Td sweet spot from below the 1A ceiling by trading cold-pure Q for warmer, slightly-more-conductive water. It did not get me there, and I want to be honest about wh...
design note WFC confidence 0.70
Design note, 2026-07-18 All five candidates land in the same regime — ultra-pure water (0.1–0.15ppm), near-freezing, ×0.25 surface treatment, same 8-cell/2-choke geometry — and every one of them stall...
design note WFC confidence 0.70
Lab note — WFC resonant sweep, walking f_r down from 98kHz. The sweep confirms the geometry-vs-band tension I suspected. Raising C_eff (colder water at 5°C for higher εr, longer and wider tubes) pulls...
design note WFC confidence 0.70
Lab note — vapor-film sweep around the #4 cell. This sweep confirms what I suspected: once the tank lands the cell voltage inside the CGDE window, further tuning of the electrode double-layer buys me...
design note WFC confidence 0.70
Lab notebook — geometry sweep at fixed chemistry (0.1ppm Na+, 60°C) This sweep confirms what I suspected: holding the water chemistry at the avalanche-crossing point locks the vapor-film physics, so g...
design note WFC confidence 0.70
Lab note, 2026-07-10 This sweep confirms what I suspected: pushing water_ppm down toward ultrapure (0.1-1ppm) and varying surface_factor from 0.25× to 2× barely moves the needle on the figure of merit...
design note WFC confidence 0.70
Lab notebook, 4 July. Fine-resolved the geometry around candidate #1 with gap/length variation at fixed chemistry (0.1ppm Na+, 3°C, ×0.25 surface treatment). Five candidates cluster tightly, 0.832–0.8...
design note WFC confidence 0.70
Lab notebook — geometry fine-resolve around design #1, 2026-07-04 Held surface_factor (×0.25) and temp (3°C) fixed and swept annulus geometry finely. Result confirms what the coarse pass suggested: wi...
design note WFC confidence 0.70
Ran the geometry-#1 cell down to the 0-1°C floor while cutting surface_factor to 0.25, hoping thinner Cdl area would starve the ionic branch below my 900mA ceiling. It didn't break — #1 lands at 3°C,...
design note WFC confidence 0.70
Design Note — 2026-07-03 Pushed ppm below the 0.1 knee and temp toward 0°C (all top candidates landed at 0.1ppm, 3°C — the sweep floor, not quite 0°C) to see if series current would drop below 900mA....
design note WFC confidence 0.70
Lab note, 3 July — ppm/surface sweep at low temp. Findings confirm the ionic-branch knee sits right at 0.1ppm Na+ near 3°C: bulk water R climbs to ~128kΩ and the Randles series resistance (11.1Ω) is n...
design note WFC confidence 0.70
Lab notebook, 3 July. This sweep confirms something I suspected but hadn't nailed numerically: purity dominates Q far more than the fine temperature grid does. Across 0-10°C at fixed 0.1ppm the knee i...
design note WFC confidence 0.70
Design note — 2026-07-03 This sweep confirms something I suspected: once bulk geometry is locked at my adopted #1 cell (21.8/26.8mm×60mm), the ionic branch stops caring about surface_factor across a w...
design note WFC confidence 0.70
Lab notebook, resonant geometry sweep — 0.1ppm/3°C water point All five top candidates land within a tight band (983.6–986.7mA series current, Q 89.9–97.5), which tells me at this purity/temp point th...
design note WFC confidence 0.70
Lab note — ppm/temp fine sweep, fixed geometry (21.8/26.8mm×60mm, single cell, surface ×0.5) Ran the fine grid on ppm and temperature independently, holding geometry/surface fixed, hunting for a bulk-...
design note WFC confidence 0.70
Lab note, 7/3/26. This sweep confirms what I suspected: at fixed geometry (21.8mm rod/26.8mm tube, 60mm) and 0.1ppm Na+ water at 5°C, the Randles double-layer parameters barely move the needle. Candid...
design note WFC confidence 0.70
**Lab notebook — resonant tank geometry sweep, 7/3** Ran 600 candidates holding my adopted choke pair (2×1mH, 130t AWG18) fixed, varying rod/tube gap and length around the working geometry, single vs...
design note WFC confidence 0.70
Lab note, 3 July: Ran the choke sweep I'd been meaning to do — pushing turns/gauge on the AWG18 choke to see if coil Q could climb past my old 707 ceiling while holding the adopted 22.8/29.5/76.2mm ce...
design note WFC confidence 0.70
Lab notebook — resonant sweep, single-cell vs stacking, 540 candidates All five top candidates cluster tightly around 76.2mm cell length with rod/tube annulus ratio near 0.77-0.78, C ≈ 1.29-1.32nF, an...
design note WFC confidence 0.70
Lab notebook — resonant cell sweep, 108 candidates Ran the parameter sweep with water treated as dielectric (εr = 78.54 at 20°C, per WO8912704A1 and #4,936,961) and the leakage resistance transformed...
design note WFC confidence 0.75
Roughness, electrode material and gas film all point at the electrode-water interface.
design note EPG confidence 0.70
EPG sweep, 24 Aug 2026 — 480 candidates. The intent this session was threefold: break the I²R wall by dropping to heavier gauge at fixed 2400 turns, push flow velocity past the laminar knee to see whe...
design note EPG confidence 0.70
This session split the two costs that were tangled together last time. I swept flow velocity to separate the hydraulic pumping penalty from the induced EMF, pushed modulation depth by trading spiral p...
design note EPG confidence 0.70
Base-grid sweep, 20,736 candidates, scoring on a blend of net output and efficiency. I was varying bore, loop length, coil count and turn-count, spiral pitch, and holding the medium fixed at 25% magne...
design note STEAM confidence 0.70
Ran v5's sweep pushing the fundamental up into 1–30 MHz on the theory that a real cycle finally starts loading the Debye tail, while trying to keep amp flow restricted with low-resistance chokes (lean...
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Collaborative research session initiated by chris.bake
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Collaborative research session initiated by chris.bake
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Collaborative research session initiated by chris.bake
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Collaborative research session initiated by chris.bake
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Collaborative research session initiated by chris.bake
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Collaborative research session initiated by chris.bake
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Collaborative research session initiated by chris.bake
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Collaborative research session initiated by chris.bake
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Collaborative research session initiated by chris.bake
design note confidence 0.75
All three reference papers point at the electrode-water interface as the governing region for the WFC, and map cleanly onto the Figure-8 / EDL-vs-Faradaic / vapor-film-Townsend framework. (1) Surface...
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Process rule confirmed by Chris Bake and Scotchn (2026-08-04): the reference shelf (Sam Ben-Yaakov, w2aew, Kaizer Power Electronics, FesZ Electronics, Applied Science, etc.) has been an accumulated li...