2 More Days Until the First Test Run!

This Friday, I hope to run the fusor for the first time. Today, Anatol and I put the system together and mounted the chamber on some vertical supports that Anatol made. We connected the chamber in series with Dr. Bulman's so we can measure the pressure inside the chamber. After everything was tightened down, I turned on the pump and started evacuating the chamber. Hopefully by Friday the chamber will be down to around 35 microns or so.

The first test of the chamber will not actually produce fusion reactions, but should ionize the atmospheric gas that is left in the chamber. If we can manage to ionize this gas, then the fusor proof-of-concept is good and we can proceed to add a gas inlet to the chamber to let deuterium in.