Operation Passivation

6 10 2010

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I decided to passivate all the vacuum equipment. This entails completely disassembling the fusor:

Look at the extreme deposition on the ceramic standoff:

Clearly the deposit is going from negative to ground judging from the super clean inner grid (negative) and the very dirty outter grid (ground):

You can see where the electron beams touched the walls of the chamber:


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12 10 2010
Passivation Success « Prometheus Fusion Perfection

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