Nothing super special, but I just got to "let's light up some deuterium" on the new smaller setup. There's a lot more to do. The HV power is a NST right now, and this modern one thinks any significant current draw means it should shut down for my safety....
The new magnetic ion source works better than expected and is very controllable, just lashed up in there with a clip to a feedthrough for power (you can see the clip in the video).
No data acq yet, the main thing new and special is a better camera, mic and mount. Just making sure this works at all, and a little testing on the ion source being able to control the main grid current.
The video was shot with a lot more gas than is actually needed - this (according to the meters) works well below the point where there's no glow outside the ion source, but the main grid current is going up and down with the ion source drive, so I'm going to call this a conditional success on the path to where I want to go - measuring the ability to trap ions and then drive them into forced recirculation and collisons while avoiding the tank walls and most scattering.
https://youtu.be/uDCIlhR6mps