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gigabecquerel

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Engineering Physics student, interested in all things nuclear.
A trusted friend in science! 🏳️‍🌈🐻
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Ceramics class! I made a trio of mugs, two of which are marbled, and I started on one of these donut shaped jugs that I was reading about on Wikipedia. That donut is hollow

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gigabecquerel,
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@MLE_online
My first thought was: Ancient Roman Betatron!
http://lampes-et-tubes.info/xr/xr088.php

gigabecquerel, to random
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Ohh fun, ATLAS just caught something cosmic!
At the moment there is no beam in the LHC, and it's a straight line through the detector but not the beam collision point in its center.
I wonder how they select events to display here, if this just happened to trigger all the right... well, triggers.
https://op-webtools.web.cern.ch/vistar/?usr=LHCATLAS

gigabecquerel, to random
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Flea market time!

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gigabecquerel, to random
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Sooooo
I made a small "investment"

A friend who has supplied me with great scintillators in the past is retiring, so I decided to get a few more before he could not sell them anymore.
This time he really outdid himself and made a perfect NaI / PMT assembly, which will replace the detector in my lead castle. The CsI are perfect for smaller / portable detectors, the rest is for my collection ;-)

It's interesting to see the difference between batches, look at the colors under UV!

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gigabecquerel,
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@RichiH A good bit, but definitely less than "market value" ;-)
The whole set cost me around half of what a new, off the shelf NaI like that alone would be!

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Has YouTube added a way to pay for videos to appear on the front page?
Mine is currently full of 1-20 view 10-30 second videos of random companies displaying their products.
Glass cutting, tuna processing, PET bottle cutters for recycling, you name it.
What the hell.

gigabecquerel, to random
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The street lights failed for a few hours and it was an entirely new world!
Kinda want it to go dark again

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gigabecquerel, to random
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Gordon Fremen, who saved Arrakis from the alien invasion

gigabecquerel, to random
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I have poor self control

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gigabecquerel,
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That's as far as I got with the parts here.
The upper compartment will hold the resonant capacitor and spark gap, I think I'll make that a bit smaller

gigabecquerel,
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Orks are nearby!

gigabecquerel,
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@RichiH @azonenberg Oh, TIL.
Was that really necessary to translate?

gigabecquerel,
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If I play my cards right I might be able to build this entire thing while having to buy nothing but the primary caps!
That means I have more budget for them, but it also kinda bothers me, lol.
Found this copper tube for the primary and some thick acrylic for the holder, maybe I can finish that today

gigabecquerel,
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I have tried and I have failed.
This definitely was not the right way to go about winding a 45° coil.
I'll redo and print the holders this time instead of lasercutting from acrylic, and I'll have the tube clip in instead of wind through, that was such a pain!

gigabecquerel,
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One 40 hour print later and they came out PERFECT!
The 6 mm copper tube clips in really well, can't wait to form the primary around them!

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gigabecquerel,
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10ish primary windings, and one (probably optimistic) strike rail!
Still some cleaning up to do tho.
Next step will be the spark gap!

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Wellp, this is going to be fun to solder

gigabecquerel,
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Half way there!
I like how it turned out, looks properly chunky, at least for this size tesla coil

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gigabecquerel,
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Aaaand done!

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And the stack is done!
Voltage testing TBD, but it looks promising.

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gigabecquerel,
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Worked like this for maybe half a second, then something arced over in the MMC, charred and gave the high voltage a nice and easy path to get through.

But damn, I'm definitely on the right path!

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⚡😍

gigabecquerel, to random
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A Potentiometer.
Does that even count as analog anymore?

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gigabecquerel, to random
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POV:
you're an average BMW driver.
we know the rules so we waited until it was green before crossing the street!

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Guess who's getting a new coffee table

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gigabecquerel,
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Aaaand done!
Love how it turned out, sturdy and nice :3

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