{"id":4292,"date":"2012-01-29T19:54:08","date_gmt":"2012-01-29T19:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/blog\/?p=4292"},"modified":"2012-01-29T19:54:08","modified_gmt":"2012-01-29T19:54:08","slug":"third-generation-hall-effect-firing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/?p=4292","title":{"rendered":"Third Generation Hall Effect Firing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The team conducted our 57th MHD generator firing test Saturday. This was our third generation Hall Effect core. This was also our first time using two plasma sources (rocket motors).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/MHD57_back.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4301\" title=\"MHD57_back\" src=\"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/MHD57_back-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"View from the exhaust side\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/MHD57_front.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4302\" title=\"MHD57_front\" src=\"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/MHD57_front-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"The front side\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/MHD57_inside.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4303\" title=\"MHD57_inside\" src=\"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/MHD57_inside-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Down the throat\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/MHD57_Harness.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4304\" title=\"MHD57_Harness\" src=\"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/MHD57_Harness-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Dual Firing Harness\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[wp_youtube]KO5D_w7Gus4[\/wp_youtube]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/MHD_57-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4310\" title=\"MHD_57-1\" src=\"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/MHD_57-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Motor Start\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/MHD_57-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4312\" title=\"MHD_57-4\" src=\"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/MHD_57-4-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Ejection charges\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/MHD57performance.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4320\" title=\"MHD57performance\" src=\"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/MHD57performance-300x176.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"176\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Motor start and finish. The motors we use to create the plasma are made for small rockets. They have a reverse charge at the end intended to deploy a parachute.<\/p>\n<p>The good news is that everything worked, the bad news is that the performance was poor. We have four more firing test planned for this unit. On each of the next tests a difference single parameter is adjusted. This should start pushing the performance up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The team conducted our 57th MHD generator firing test Saturday. This was our third generation Hall Effect core. This was also our first time using two plasma sources (rocket motors). [wp_youtube]KO5D_w7Gus4[\/wp_youtube] Motor start and finish. The motors we use to create the plasma are made for small rockets. They have a reverse charge at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}