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My thinking is to use choke coils, since we know current lags voltage with inductors. Size them in such a way the quick, sharp, high voltage pulses pass through the chokes and create the electric field across the WFC plates without any external current being generated. Almost sounds like something Stan Meyer would say, but hopefully I said it better and in a way y'all can understand it. Maybe none of this is rocket science after all and is really rather straightforward. Just a matter of choosing the proper size components. Is this what Ed and gps are doing, without knowing it? Maybe so. Lets have another look.
Matt, I can agree to your summary.
Of course gps and Ed are well aware of that they are exactly doing that.
And I agree to Farrah stating that an individual problem solving approach away from Meyer´s statements has to be developed into a test configuration.
following this interesting thread I want to add the following:
the main statement to be checked is "voltage performs work".
so ...
1. any theory posted here can only serve a single goal: test the theory in an experiment and analyze the results. if results fit the theory seems to work. otherwise it fails or test configuration or operator´s competence was insufficient. there are ways to deal with the 2nd part
:-)2. stan meyer´s configurations look simple stupid (his words).
the test configuration needed for tests is mechanically and/or technically elaborate and not too user friendly for changes and variations. so serious tests are a time and cost expensive endeavour. there is no way to think the trick can be done "by the way" with minimum effort.
3. the most complicated part of the basic VIC system is the transformer.
there are few transformer expert experienced in calculations according to transformers, most of them are sited in transformer build companies using expensive calculation programs stashing their know how. transformer design is a niched field of competence.
this type of compact transformer as core part of the VIC is not used in other fields of technology. so those transformer experts also have no working model for it´s dimensions.
how to continue by the means of real science?
define the vic operational parameters to be reached:
min./max. frequency, input/output voltage, peak voltage creation specs, output circuit resistance, mechanical data (core specs, bobbin design)
build a (sub-optimal) transformer prototype after those parameters, integrate it into a standarized wfc design, measure all relevant voltage, current and timing conditions, analyze operational deriviations from defined parameters,
build a simulation model showing the same measurement results as the first prototype, optimize by simulation,
build a 2nd generation transformer
iterative process until operational parameters are reached.
with this working transformer for VIC circuit check the statement "voltage performs work".
this is not too easy, but can be done. this is less complicated than "doing the trick" stan meyer stated to have done.
if projecting the transformer part as described seems to be too complicated for an experimenter or a project group "doing the trick" or verifying "voltage performs work" will be much over the head of the group.