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design note · VIC · · added 1 week ago
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 capacit...
design note · VIC · · added 1 week ago
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 10...
design note · VIC · · added 1 week ago
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...
design note · VIC · · added 1 week ago
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...
design note · WFC · · added 1 week ago
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 t...
design note · VIC · · added 1 week ago
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....
design note · VIC · · added 1 week ago
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...
design note · VIC · · added 1 week ago
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...
calculation · VIC · · added 1 week ago
**Sweep** — Force the 1.37nF (1-2 cell) case: sweep per-choke L 3.7-9mH to land f_r across the untested 32-50kHz compliant band, with high-turn AWG18-22 coils to hold coil Q high w...
calculation · WFC · · added 1 week ago
**Sweep** — Freeze near-v19 tank geometry but attack the Td window directly with a fine electrode-gap × length ladder crossed against a low-mid drive ladder (3-10kV V_cell), holdin...
design note · VIC · · added 1 week ago
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...
calculation · WFC · · added 1 week ago
**Sweep** — Widen annular gap into 6-9mm to slide the 0.1mm vapor film down into the 80-250 Td CGDE window at ~800V cell, holding cold/pure water for high R_ct/Q, and re-check C_ef...
design note · WFC · · added 1 week ago
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 dri...
design note · WFC · · added 1 week ago
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 expose...
design note · WFC · · added 1 week ago
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 ce...
design note · VIC · · added 1 week ago
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...
design note · WFC · · added 1 week ago
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...
design note · VIC · · added 1 week ago
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 cand...
calculation · WFC · · added 1 week ago
**Sweep** — Finer grid at the 10-12mm×60mm best but use surface_factor as the fresh lever to raise C_dl and hold displacement current while low peak_v + cold pure water crush leaka...
calculation · WFC · · added 1 week ago
**Sweep** — Deliberately lower magnification via larger rod OD + wider annular gap to break the ×70 floor, then sweep gamma_se with moderated peak_v/duty to land V_cell at 500-600V...
calculation · VIC · · added 1 week ago
**Sweep** — Hold the AWG18 1mH/200T champ with a fine choke grid and walk peak_v down from bench-proven 120V to land the 470 Td film inside the 80-250 Td CGDE band via lower magnif...
calculation · WFC · · added 1 week ago
**Sweep** — Lower Q via larger rod OD + wider annular gap while trimming peak_v/duty together to push V_cell down from 837V/334Td into the 80-250 Td CGDE window, holding Faradaic l...
calculation · VIC · · added 1 week ago
**Sweep** — Walk peak_v DOWN from bench-proven 120V while holding the AWG18 1mH champ (plus two slightly softer chokes) to drag the 470 Td film back into the 80-250 Td CGDE band an...
calculation · VIC · · added 1 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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...