| Name | Amount ($) |
| Wouter Keller | 3,000.00 |
| Bobcat Sweden | 3,000.00 |
| Dana Seccombe | 2,500.00 |
| Robert McKay | 2,000.00 |
| John Oman | 1,500.00 |
| Donald Martin | 1,500.00 |
| Sam Hall | 1,000.00 |
| Jed Rothwell | 1,000.00 |
| Tomas Andersson | 1,000.00 |
| Giorgio Vassallo | 1,000.00 |
Early LENR test cell for testing nano powder under hydrogen.
This beat up little unit was our first test chamber to hold 20 nanometer nickel powder.
This specific design was made to hold a tight vacuum of a trillionth of an atmosphere up to a temperature of 1000C or hold hydrogen in at up to 400 psi.
This test cell showed us some interesting behavior and was our longest running experiment to date.
As we were putting things together, initially, the thermocouples and power connections were starting to get pretty unruly. This was a 5 minute solution to the problem and inspired the sleeker, better design later. Note the red and blue marks on the terminal strip to indicate which wire was to connect there.
This all stainless vessel is intended to have a probe with electrical connections coming down from the top cap assembly into the middle of a bunch of metal powder.
The probe contains two thermocouples and a bare copper coil to allow magnetic and electrical stimulation of the powder under test.
The chamber is commonly used at high vacuums of 10^-7 torr and pressures of hydrogen up to 400 psi.
Several chambers just like this one have experiments ongoing in them in our lab.
With our new focus we are unlikely to initiate any new ones, so we are moving this one along.
This model of test cell was a very important part of our learning curve that allowed us to take on the current challenges of building these Celani type cells.
So if you are interested in Ni+H, here is a shortcut for you!
This extremely unique prototype piece was crafted by Wayne the Mechanical Wizard and was an early attempt at trying to figure out how to wrap two wires up to one end and back again over a triangle support and make sure that the whole length for each wire ended up at one meter.
It is pictured on the blog.
We did use it as a guide several times wrapping the wires on both version 1 test cells.
We have since moved on to wrapping the two wires starting at one end and terminating at the other.
