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lee
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Sun May 01 2011, 11:00PM
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Registered Member #3861
Joined: Sun May 01 2011, 09:23PM
Location: Oklahoma City
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Hello all
My Name is Lee and this is my home built solar converter. Please forgive its crudeness as i have very little money to spend almost every comp is from the trash. I'm using a giant fresnel lens from an old tv and focusing sunlight through a window in a vacuum chamber onto a cathode. The cathode is a round dome in the center of an anode ring. Using hv pulsed dc a dome of plasma is generated covering the entire cathode and filling the entire center if the anode. I hope the nitrogen ions will transfer some of the heat from the cathode to the anode in the form of increased voltage. I have only recently been able to generate a stable plasma field that covers the entire cathode. Now to wait for a sunny day and free time to coincide for the first test.
Hello all,
I have an update on the project which is partial success on the first series of tests. When the cathode is heated i am able to register 12v on a second lead that is immersed in the plasma field. I have found that the amperage though is only equal to the amperage of the hv plasma field which tells me that there is not enough heat to generate thermal emission. So i plan on scrapping the goal of thermal emission and ghost a second low voltage high amperage plasma field on to the primary field with a fourth electrode between the anode and collector.
Could someone tell me if non thermal plasma will conduct secondary circuits like thermal plasma can? Any feed back will be much appreciated.
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Pinky's Brain
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Joined: Thu Jun 03 2010, 01:25PM
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Cool, didn't even know this was possible (if anyone else wants to look up the theory, after some googling I found out it's called thermionic conversion).
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