There was discussion in one of the threads that the VIC coils act like a flyback transformer. There was also discussion about what the gaps do. Ronnie posted this:
Re: "Understanding How Stan Meyers Fuel Cell Works"
« Reply #606, on November 11th, 2016, 11:33 AM »Last edited on November 11th, 2016, 11:35 AM
Getting back to Stan's Vic, can everyone see how the gap between the cores controls the coupling from the Primary to the Secondary which in return controls and fine tunes the voltage in the secondary and L1. And if you follow through with this to the positive plate, it also fine tunes the charge on that plate.
Re: "Understanding How Stan Meyers Fuel Cell Works"
« Reply #608, on November 11th, 2016, 11:44 AM »Last edited on November 11th, 2016, 12:07 PM
Ady15 because it is you, I will tell you all the variables you can control with the dual setup like you have.
1: on one core you have the primary and L2 choke coupled together. You can control the inductance of L2 by grinding one of the legs by a thousands or two and even more if you need to. But don't grind the leg the primary is on. whatever you grind on the L2 leg place a brass or copper spacer of the same thickness as you ground off. That is one adjustment you can make to control the inductance of L2. Then you have turns you can take off or add to on the L2, that is another adjustment you can make.
2: you can repeat the same on the L1 choke leg by grinding some off and placing a spacer of the same amount you ground off but don't grind the secondary leg That allows you to control the inductance of L1. You can also add or take turns off the L2 choke.
3: place the primary close to the secondary move them as close to each other as you can. pulling them apart from one another is another adjustment you can make.
4: taking turns off the secondary and add turns is another adjustment you can make.
So now do you see what all you can do with the two core setup?
Now with that being said we need to get back to Stan's Vic in order to see what all these adjustments do.
What Ronnie is saying here is the gap can be used to adjust the inductance of the cokes. There is more on this later in the thread. He also states this is a fine tuning adjustment.
I just cut this out of my document that is a collection of things from this thread. I just searched gap to find it. Build the document so I could search for things.
Earl