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design note · WFC · 30 Aug 2026 · added 1 month ago

WFC design session v16: reasoning

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 fix...

design note · VIC · 30 Aug 2026 · added 1 month ago

VIC design session v16: reasoning

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...

design note · WFC · 30 Aug 2026 · added 1 month ago

WFC design session v25: reasoning

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 an...

design note · VIC · 30 Aug 2026 · added 1 month ago

VIC design session v25: reasoning

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-chok...

calculation · STEAM · 30 Aug 2026 · added 1 month ago

Steam Resonator design session v4: best candidate (3.83kg/hr, 0% non-ohmic)

**Sweep** — Decouple edge-rate from fundamental: keep the fundamental LOW so τ_bulk fully establishes a real field, then dump ALL Debye loading through ultra-sharp sub-100ps edges...

calculation · STEAM · 30 Aug 2026 · added 1 month ago

Steam Resonator design session v1: best candidate (0.62kg/hr, 0% non-ohmic)

**Sweep** — base grid > Score 0.386 — 0.623 kg/hr steam, 0.0% of the heat non-ohmic - **Cavity** — 2 × coaxial T-304, rod 12.00mm in 19.04mm ID, 400mm active (gap 3.52mm, 137.2 mL...

calculation · WFC · 30 Aug 2026 · added 1 month ago

WFC design session v53: best candidate (Q=48.7, 86.3kHz)

**Sweep** — Shed magnification via fatter rod + wider annular film gap (lower C, lower Q) while co-sweeping gamma_se with low-duty peak_v in cold/pure water, to drop V_cell into th...

calculation · STEAM · 30 Aug 2026 · added 1 month ago

Steam Resonator design session v3: best candidate (3.67kg/hr, 0% non-ohmic)

**Sweep** — Non-ohmic fraction = f·ε''/σ is field/voltage-INDEPENDENT, so stop starving V and instead drive switch_hz all the way to the 30-100 GHz Debye PEAK (not just the tail) i...

calculation · STEAM · 30 Aug 2026 · added 1 month ago

Steam Resonator design session v2: best candidate (28.20kg/hr, 0% non-ohmic)

**Sweep** — Climb ε'' off the floor by sweeping switch_hz up decades to 100 MHz while cutting series R (pickup/choke) so τ_bulk shortens enough to establish the field within the on...

calculation · VIC · 30 Aug 2026 · added 1 month ago

VIC design session v117: best candidate (Q=52.2, 94.4kHz)

**Sweep** — screen-guided: live [Choke L (each), Turns, Wire gauge], refined score 0.626 - **Cell** — 16mm rod in 18.0mm tube × 50mm, 1 cell(s) parallel → C_eff = 1.85nF, bulk wate...

design note · STEAM · 30 Aug 2026 · added 1 month ago

Steam Resonator design session v1: reasoning

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...

design note · STEAM · 30 Aug 2026 · added 1 month ago

Steam Resonator design session v3: reasoning

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 wate...

design note · STEAM · 30 Aug 2026 · added 1 month ago

Steam Resonator design session v2: reasoning

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...

design note · STEAM · 30 Aug 2026 · added 1 month ago

Steam Resonator design session v4: reasoning

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...