Knuckleballerr

Farnsworth fusor is a nice little side experiment but won't yield net positive fusion power, don't even waste your time there. You'll find 15k isn't nearly enough to get a decent system to experiment with fusion, let alone lab quality anyway. Vacuum levels that high are a nightmare, you need to heat the metal to pretty high temperatures just to degas it, and use materials which wouldn't off-gas and ruin your vacuum levels. Let alone have a system which will allow room for a polywell (going from memory here) ? several meters in radius, with cooled coils and enormous levels of capacitance and maybe a power source in the megawatts just to hope to gain net power as theorized by Bussard. An experiment like is MUCH too insurmountable for one single person unless your blind rich. The power factor correction capacitors alone must cost triple that price.

I'm not sure of your resource or budget limitations, but I'm thinking about a closed loop system which will run to a radiator with a high rpm fan blowing on it (sort of like 1/2 of an air conditioner). If you mist water across the radiator for the fan to blow through, you might be able to drop the temps down significantly.

Hi all, its my first post & I'm glad to be here. I can't wait to contribute to the forum where I can. I wanted to ask first about electrical wiring, particularly stranded vs. solid core wire. What are the advantages of stranded over solid core wire other than flexibility? Do the numerous stands of wire offer some advantage? Also, what is it about some car alternators that they can offer more amperage over units of the same size? I can understand better rectifiers and voltage regulations can be used, but is it to do with the wire gauge sizes/turns ratio in the unit?