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calculation · WFC · · added 1 week ago
**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...
calculation · WFC · · added 1 week ago
**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...
calculation · VIC · · added 1 week ago
**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...
calculation · WFC · · added 1 week ago
**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,...
breakthrough · VIC · · added 1 week ago
- **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...
calculation · VIC · · added 1 week ago
**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...
breakthrough · EPG · · added 1 week ago
> 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*...
calculation · VIC · · added 1 week ago
**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...
design note · VIC · · added 1 week ago
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...
calculation · VIC · · added 1 week ago
**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...
design note · VIC · · added 1 week ago
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...
design note · VIC · · added 1 week ago
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...
calculation · VIC · · added 1 week ago
**Sweep** — Joint L-up sweep: raise choke L 5-25x from adopted 0.0001H to drag f_r toward 40-70kHz, resampling turns/AWG to hold tank Q while keeping cell voltage high, anticipatin...
calculation · VIC · · added 1 week ago
**Sweep** — Genuinely realize L from turns/geometry, testing under- and over-tuned brackets (1-3mH and 8-10mH) plus a fine grid near the current best, to bound f_r sensitivity beyo...
design note · VIC · · added 1 week ago
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...
design note · VIC · · added 1 week ago
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...
calculation · VIC · · added 1 week ago
**Sweep** — screen-guided: live [Choke L (each), Turns, Wire gauge], refined score 0.274 - **Cell** — 18mm rod in 34.0mm tube × 25mm, 8 cell(s) parallel → C_eff = 1.37nF, bulk wate...
design note · VIC · · added 1 week ago
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-chemist...
design note · VIC · · added 1 week ago
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...
design note · VIC · · added 1 week ago
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 b...
design note · VIC · · added 1 week ago
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 act...
calculation · VIC · · added 1 week ago
**Sweep** — Bridge the untested 20-32kHz gap with mid-L chokes at low C while keeping a fine grid around the proven 3.7mH/12.9kHz best, and pair high peak_v with low duty to push T...
design note · VIC · · added 1 week ago
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....
calculation · VIC · · added 1 week ago
**Sweep** — screen-guided: live [Choke L (each), Turns], refined score 0.418 - **Cell** — 12mm rod in 24.0mm tube × 100mm, 6 cell(s) parallel → C_eff = 3.85nF, bulk water R = 3774Ω...
calculation · VIC · · added 1 week ago
**Sweep** — Fix the #1 cell; tune film Td into the 80-250 window by pairing a finer choke grid around 581µH (nudging Q) with a moderate low-voltage / low-duty drive tier that pulls...
design note · WFC · · added 1 week ago
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-...
design note · VIC · · added 1 week ago
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 candid...
design note · VIC · · added 1 week ago
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 scor...
design note · WFC · · added 1 week ago
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. Ever...
calculation · VIC · · added 1 week ago
**Sweep** — screen-guided: live [Choke L (each), Turns, Wire gauge], refined score 0.274 - **Cell** — 18mm rod in 34.0mm tube × 25mm, 8 cell(s) parallel → C_eff = 1.37nF, bulk wate...