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calculation · VIC · · added 1 month ago
**Sweep** — Map the untouched 0.1-1mH transition between the physics-ideal 100µH reference and the buildable 1mH floor at high-Q gauges, to see where film lighting decays as L clim...
design note · VIC · · added 1 month ago
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 cand...
design note · WFC · · added 1 month ago
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....
design note · WFC · · added 1 month ago
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)...
design note · WFC · · added 1 month ago
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...
calculation · VIC · · added 1 month ago
**Sweep** — Raise coil Q with tighter AWG24 chokes at fewer turns to pull f_r into 55-75kHz, lifting V_cell toward ~150 Td at the adopted 60V sub-breakdown drive, with a couple sho...
design note · VIC · · added 1 month ago
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 th...
calculation · VIC · · added 1 month ago
**Sweep** — At adopted 60V sub-breakdown drive, raise L on AWG24 chokes to pull f_r from 94.87 kHz down into 55-75 kHz and land the vapor film in the 80-250 Td cold-chemistry windo...
calculation · VIC · · added 1 month ago
**Sweep** — Finer grid around the adopted AWG22 0.7 mH tank plus higher-L/higher-turn territory to push f_r below 85 kHz, sweeping low-duty low-peak drive to trend Faradaic leakage...
design note · WFC · · added 1 month ago
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...
calculation · WFC · · added 1 month ago
**Sweep** — Cut peak_v into the 24-90V band paired with low duty to slide V_cell toward the 80-250 Td window while holding the cold/pure/passivated Randles floor, with a fine grid...
calculation · VIC · · added 1 month ago
**Sweep** — Push f_r into 55-75kHz with higher-L AWG24 chokes and drop peak_v to walk vapor-film Td down into the 80-250 cold-chemistry window, sweeping duty widely to break degene...
calculation · WFC · · added 1 month ago
**Sweep** — Deliberately lower Q and trim peak_v to pull V_cell into ~250-400V, widen gap sweep to drop film Paschen and land Td inside 80-250, holding purer/colder water for a low...
calculation · WFC · · added 1 month ago
**Sweep** — Hold adopted 10/1/55mm cell (0.1ppm/2C/x0.25) and attack peak_v alone — sweep drive down to land V_cell at 500-600V/~180Td CGDE window, matched ultra-low duty, checking...
calculation · WFC · · added 1 month ago
**Sweep** — Slide V_cell into the 80-250 Td sub-critical corner (M 0.1-1) by softening tank Q with cold/pure water while trimming gamma_se and peak_v together — the water/thermal p...
calculation · WFC · · added 1 month ago
**Sweep** — Lower effective Q via colder/purer water and sweep gamma_se + moderated peak_v together to slide V_cell into the 80-250 Td / M 0.1-1 sub-critical corner instead of magn...
calculation · WFC · · added 1 month ago
**Sweep** — Co-sweep water/electrode Randles levers (purity, temperature, surface treatment) with moderated peak_v/duty at near-best 10mm/50mm geometry to slide V_cell down from 83...
design note · EPG · · added 1 month ago
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 mediu...
calculation · VIC · · added 1 month ago
**Sweep** — screen-guided: live [Choke L (each), Turns, Wire gauge], refined score 0.616 - **Cell** — 10mm rod in 14.0mm tube × 50mm, 2 cell(s) parallel → C_eff = 1.42nF, bulk wate...
calculation · EPG · · added 1 month ago
**Sweep** — base grid > Score 0.931 — η 68.9%, 66.78 W net - **Pathway** — bore 80.0mm, loop 1000mm, spiral pitch 80mm - **Coil array** — 4 × 1800 turns AWG18, 10mm long (1900m wir...
design note · EPG · · added 1 month ago
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...
calculation · EPG · · added 1 month ago
**Sweep** — Break the I²R wall with heavier AWG at fixed turns, push velocity past laminar to test EMF-vs-hydraulic scaling, and drive coil/pitch modulation below 0.10 to find dimi...
design note · VIC · · added 1 month ago
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 on...
design note · VIC · · added 1 month ago
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...
design note · VIC · · added 1 month ago
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...
calculation · WFC · · added 1 month ago
**Sweep** — Fixed #1 geometry: sweep choke-adjacent proxy via water_ppm extended higher and surface_factor combos not yet tried, while checking if cell voltage stays within 80-250...
calculation · VIC · · added 1 month ago
The WFC operates in the fully reactive region of the VIC circuit.
calculation · VIC · · added 1 month ago
**Sweep** — Push L up an order of magnitude (2-5mH) at fixed cell geometry to drag f_r under 100kHz, checking whether Td/CGDE window survives the lower cell voltage - **Cell** — 9m...
calculation · VIC · · added 1 month ago
**Sweep** — Abandon the phantom 200nF sizing: sweep L up toward ~7.4mH (the value that lands f_r=50kHz on the real 1.37nF cell) to finally pull resonance into the 1-100kHz band, ho...
calculation · VIC · · added 1 month ago
**Sweep** — Bridge the untested 0.3-5mH mid-choke gap (between the buildable 0.1mH best and the already-swept 7.4mH point) to find the lowest inductance that still pulls f_r into 4...
