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I'm the same Bob Reite that is on fusor.net. I've been into electronics since the 4th grade when I built a crystal set and got hooked. I can't get enough of it it seems, I take care of radio broadcast stations for my day job and am on ham radio (mostly 75 meters) at night. I had been thinking about building a fusor since first seeing an article in the Analog science fiction magazine "fact" section a few years ago. I finally did it when Mark Suppes gave up his quest and was selling off his vacuum equipment for a good price. My first neutrons were created on September 14, 2015. I have been experimenting with other electrode configurations since.

Welcome to the pros, Bob.
We have been doing much the same here, but have sort of settled on something that seems to work the best of the things we've tried, and which satisfies the "it makes sense" feeling.
That would be an accurately built cylindrical grid (one end open) in a cylindrical sidearm of our big tank, in our case. Every time we get to better build accuracy out output and Q seem to go up.
This is interesting because even on a visible light wavelength level, the best we make might as well be a funhouse mirror - at the shorter De Broglie wavelengths of the stuff in a fusor - ridiculous, but it seems better is still better.

Mark Suppes... there's a name we don't hear much any more...

--P