Hi all,
It would make the job much easier in the Meyer fuel cell if we could simply allow the water capacitor to charge to its full voltage potential and create the required voltage field without any current leakage in either direction. The diode in Stan's schematics in between the VIC and the inductor clearly stops the current flowing in one direction but electrically it allows the half rectified current from the VIC to flow in the other direction. Now if we placed another diode in the circuit between the other inductor and the VIC, the cap would not charge at all so we cannot do that. So I began to think of a way to do it which allowed a diode in both directions but still allowed a potential to build up on the water capacitor and I came up with this:-
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My thinking is, if we can create a slightly lower potential on the lower cap plate with the use of a variable resister capacitively coupled to L1 variable inductor then we can jump the diode via a spark gap. That way we can create a potential on both plates while stopping current flow in either direction and maintaining a constant electrical voltage field in the cap even though the water was conductive.
It would make the job much easier in the Meyer fuel cell if we could simply allow the water capacitor to charge to its full voltage potential and create the required voltage field without any current leakage in either direction. The diode in Stan's schematics in between the VIC and the inductor clearly stops the current flowing in one direction but electrically it allows the half rectified current from the VIC to flow in the other direction. Now if we placed another diode in the circuit between the other inductor and the VIC, the cap would not charge at all so we cannot do that. So I began to think of a way to do it which allowed a diode in both directions but still allowed a potential to build up on the water capacitor and I came up with this:-
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My thinking is, if we can create a slightly lower potential on the lower cap plate with the use of a variable resister capacitively coupled to L1 variable inductor then we can jump the diode via a spark gap. That way we can create a potential on both plates while stopping current flow in either direction and maintaining a constant electrical voltage field in the cap even though the water was conductive.