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thread · Stan's Legacy · · added 1 month ago
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calculation · STEAM · · added 1 month ago
Steam Resonator design session v5: best candidate (24.63kg/hr, 0% non-ohmic)
**Sweep** — Raise the fundamental into 1–30 MHz where a real cycle starts loading the Debye tail, but pair it with low-R chokes (lean on ωL, not resistance, for amp restriction) pl...
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design note · STEAM · · added 1 month ago
Steam Resonator design session v5: reasoning
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-res...
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design note · VIC · · added 1 month ago
VIC design session v103: reasoning
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...
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calculation · WFC · · added 1 month ago
WFC design session v39: best candidate (Q=57.6, 98.9kHz)
**Sweep** — Finer grid at the tight 10/12mm×60mm best with a low peak_v corridor (12-14V → ~650-770V cell at Q~55) paired with a surface_factor sweep — the untouched lever — to tra...
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calculation · WFC · · added 1 month ago
WFC design session v46: best candidate (Q=98.3, 97.7kHz)
**Sweep** — Co-sweep Randles water/electrode levers (purity, temperature, surface) with moderated peak_v/duty at fixed near-best 10mm/50mm geometry to slide V_cell down from 837V/3...
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design note · · added 1 month ago
Three papers converge on the plate face: roughness → material/polarity → gas film
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 fra...
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calculation · VIC · · added 1 month ago
VIC design session v73: best candidate (Q=25.9, 303.9kHz)
**Sweep** — Freeze choke near adopted 140t/0.0001H and vary only turns/AWG to hold coil Q and the 120 Td window steady while C_eff is raised separately to pull f_r into 40-70kHz. -...
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calculation · VIC · · added 1 month ago
VIC design session v78: best candidate (Q=25.9, 303.9kHz)
**Sweep** — Genuinely sweep choke L (with turns scaled to match) to drop f_r into 40-70kHz at higher C_eff, verifying the frequency lever moves before scoring; fine cluster near ad...
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calculation · VIC · · added 1 month ago
VIC design session v81: best candidate (Q=25.7, 303.9kHz)
**Sweep** — Fine grid at the 100µH Q-ceiling reference paired with unexplored >8mH high-L chokes so a shrunken-C cell lands sub-100kHz f_r while still holding tank Q to light the C...
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calculation · VIC · · added 1 month ago
VIC design session v93: best candidate (Q=1.2, 12.9kHz)
**Sweep** — At C=1.37nF (1-2 cell), sweep per-choke L 3.7-9mH to land f_r in the untested 32-50kHz band with high-turn AWG18-22 coils, and raise peak_v (low duty) to drive Td towar...
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calculation · VIC · · added 1 month ago
VIC design session v99: best candidate (Q=8.8, 98.5kHz)
**Sweep** — Hold peakV modest (80-140V) but sweep a WIDER choke-inductance ladder above/below 581µH to move f_r off the water-branch-limited point and land Q in the 4-6 band from t...
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calculation · VIC · · added 1 month ago
VIC design session v100: best candidate (Q=4.0, 49.1kHz)
**Sweep** — Pull the vapor film from 350Td into the 150-250Td cold-chemistry window by dropping choke L below 581µH, damping Q to 4-6 from the resistance side (thin high-AWG turns)...
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calculation · WFC · · added 1 month ago
WFC design session v32: best candidate (Q=22.3, 97.7kHz)
**Sweep** — Hunt the 80-250 Td window by dropping cell voltage (lower peak_v) at a moderate 3-5mm gap with normal 12-20mm rods that keep C_eff high enough to resonate near 45kHz, o...
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calculation · WFC · · added 1 month ago
WFC design session v34: best candidate (Q=28.1, 96.6kHz)
**Sweep** — Push the gap below 1.8mm and deliberately drop peak_v to drive the vapor-film field down into the 80-250 Td window head-on, with a fine grid around the score-0.845 best...
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calculation · VIC · · added 1 month ago
VIC design session v106: best candidate (Q=8.4, 99.8kHz)
**Sweep** — Drive V below 100V with low duty to walk vapor-film Td into 80-250 window while holding Faradaic leakage <10mA; higher-L AWG24 chokes pull f_r toward 55-75kHz for magni...
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calculation · WFC · · added 1 month ago
WFC design session v36: best candidate (Q=47.6, 91.9kHz)
**Sweep** — Hold #1's 12/16mm cell but attack Paschen from the water side — sweep gap, temperature and purity to lower the film breakdown voltage so a modest V_cell (24-42V drive,...
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breakthrough · VIC · · added 1 month ago
Breakthrough candidate for VIC: score 0.821 beats previous best
- **Cell** — 10mm rod in 12.0mm tube × 50mm, 1 cell(s) parallel → C_eff = 1.33nF, bulk water R = 140290Ω. - **Water/electrodes (Randles)** — 0.1ppm Na+ @ 2°C, surface ×0.25 → λ_D 2...
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calculation · VIC · · added 1 month ago
VIC design session v115: best candidate (Q=100.0, 94.1kHz)
**Sweep** — screen-guided: live [Choke L (each), Turns, Wire gauge], refined score 0.644 - **Cell** — 12mm rod in 14.0mm tube × 50mm, 1 cell(s) parallel → C_eff = 1.55nF, bulk wate...
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breakthrough · EPG · · added 1 month ago
Breakthrough candidate for EPG: score 0.931 beats previous best
> 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 wire, 39.77Ω) - **Medium*...
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calculation · VIC · · added 1 month ago
VIC design session v72: best candidate (Q=25.8, 303.9kHz)
**Sweep** — C_eff is the real frequency lever, so hold the choke as control (140t/AWG18) and sample a tight L grid near the adopted 0.0001H nominal to confirm coil Q and the 120 Td...
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design note · VIC · · added 1 month ago
VIC design session v72: reasoning
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 0.00...
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calculation · VIC · · added 1 month ago
VIC design session v74: best candidate (Q=25.9, 303.9kHz)
**Sweep** — With C_eff pinned, push f_r from ~300kHz toward 40-70kHz by raising choke L ~20-25x (0.0001→0.0025H) while sampling turns/AWG for Q — the only band-legal knob left this...
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design note · VIC · · added 1 month ago
VIC design session v75: reasoning
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 2×0.0001...
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design note · VIC · · added 1 month ago
VIC design session v76: reasoning
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 resu...