Fusion Reactor First Test Run

For those unfamiliar with D-D fusion, here’s the relevant Wikipedia article: We are a group of students at UMass Lowell that are building a type of fusion reactor called a Farnsworth Fusor. Fusion has been conventionally done by heating a gas to such a high temperature that the average particle of gas has enough energy to overcome the coulombic repulsion of another particles nucleus so that it can fuse. Instead we use 2 concentric spherical grids one of which is at a high negative pot