On 12/6/12 1:56 PM, Bob Camp wrote:
Hi
The single best thing about a TBolt is Lady Heather.
Consider how many years it's taken to get it to where it is today. Consider
how many people have worked extensively on it. It's a wonderful thing to
have available.
Could you make a homebrew gizmo look "just like a TBolt"? Sure you could. It
might well take you forever to do all the reverse engineering, validation,
and testing, but it can be done. I'd guess it would take less time to
re-write a version of LH from scratch....
Of course, the process of experimenting and trying to duplicate the
Tbolt is fairly educational. It touches a lot of interesting areas in
RF design and metrology, as well as software algorithms. One might do
it for the same reason that someone builds a fusor in their garage.
There are easier ways to get neutrons, but building a fusor is a nice
combination of learning about high vacuum, high voltage, nuclear physics
and metrology, etc.
Both are a heck of a lot cheaper than building and flying a CubeSat, for
instance.
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