In order to bleed off the remaining capacitor energy, I would usually use a few high watt resistors in series, taped to the end of a 2 ft piece of pvc pipe. Then, short it for 30 seconds or so. Really cool work BTW !! You Might be onto a method that would replace sputtering or Particle Vapor Deposition 👍🏼
You could theoretically just wrap some copper wire which is as pure of a copper source as it gets and put the glass rod inside the coil and heat the coil with electric current..not melt it but get it very close to melting
hey mate check out the MFC prototype design i induced a controlled meltdown to show magnetic quenching and one of many reasons I need funding to get better equipment and so i can move from the demo to a true prototype the meltdown was due to not having a heat exchanger to get rid of the heat build up in the magnet for the demo core. magnetic quenching collapsed the rotational field that protects the center electrode and makes the particles orbit. leaving the only the x-rays to smash the star and kill the particle orbit, vaporizing the top of my electrode due the star temperature plasma touching it. the solution or fix is in the description but I'm not going through the effort for the demo version of my design.
In order to bleed off the remaining capacitor energy, I would usually use a few high watt resistors in series, taped to the end of a 2 ft piece of pvc pipe. Then, short it for 30 seconds or so. Really cool work BTW !! You Might be onto a method that would replace sputtering or Particle Vapor Deposition 👍🏼
You could theoretically just wrap some copper wire which is as pure of a copper source as it gets and put the glass rod inside the coil and heat the coil with electric current..not melt it but get it very close to melting
This is a similat method rhat was used ro coat some ceramic material with silicon.
Thank for this video. For safety, four 100 watt 120v incadecent lightbulbs in series can safely discharge 500v in a reasonable time.
Your essentially doing uncontrolled vapor deposition....
Hey do you have discord? There is an active hobbyist HV and vacuum scene that would definitely be interested in your work.
Do you think this would work on a plastic surface?
That will be on my list to things to test, but it was able to work with acrylic.
Thank you for sharing your experiments. Have you tried with the wire submerged in water?
hey mate check out the MFC prototype design i induced a controlled meltdown to show magnetic quenching and one of many reasons I need funding to get better equipment and so i can move from the demo to a true prototype the meltdown was due to not having a heat exchanger to get rid of the heat build up in the magnet for the demo core. magnetic quenching collapsed the rotational field that protects the center electrode and makes the particles orbit. leaving the only the x-rays to smash the star and kill the particle orbit, vaporizing the top of my electrode due the star temperature plasma touching it. the solution or fix is in the description but I'm not going through the effort for the demo version of my design.