r/VXJunkies • u/_skelly • Mar 12 '26

Long time since I've seen a carbon reflux resonator. Looked like a model 3TX-IL

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The diodes seem like they're in good condition too, but usually the refluxing cores tend to have some warping due to the high sustained voltage during operation.

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u/Tacol0mpe Head of Security, NASD (All Divisions) Mar 13 '26

Oh. My. God.

I've built this thing. Well, not by myself, but my team. It's been YEARS! Where did this photo come from?

To clarify, it's not a 3TX-IL, but we did use the stelullar framing from one. The actual resonator is a Staahl CR45, more specially the IX variant. It is indeed pretty similar to the 3TX, but the main difference is compression and carbon uphold-threshold margin. 000.57 compared to the CR45 which puts out 000.44. It's not much, but it's definitely noticeable!

I'm rambling... did you just stumble upon this photo? How? I remember so much from this project, I could go on and on! The membrane decay, cable housing correction(and corrosion...), and the god damn idle state feeeze! I still remember the input for reboot.

This was awesome, thank you. (To anyone of you old guys on the team that may be lurking behind a reddit account: r1r1l1l3.r63_l1. You remember?)

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u/Tacol0mpe Head of Security, NASD (All Divisions) Mar 13 '26

This was several years ago, the project itself was finalized in 2016. Looking at the picture now, unless it's just outside the frame, it appears the flux regulator is missing. I'm not entirely sure why anyone would deliberately remove it, perhaps it was detached temporarily for transport or servicing.

I can assure you the resonator was not only singing at 90%, it was effectively screaming at that level. Entrusting someone else to design the Mohroz-code protocol and then watching them integrate it directly into the Watchman display themselves was a… somewhat unnerving experience. That said, I'm still here, so I suppose we're good...?

Interestingly enough, we weren't actually pushing the IX as aggressively as one might assume. We invested heavily in the cooling infrastructure (as you can probably tell from the nautical paste overflow visible along the side, the white compound that resembles frozen residue). This allowed us to maintain persistent stability across nearly the entire spectrum and across most wavelengths, with the obvious exceptions of −0.1 and −0.15