Originally posted by boguslaw
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You are not charging the capacitor.
I was told that by the admin of the energyevo.com, it never made any sense. Until I saw it experimentally.
That has been my epiphany, a series capacitor to ground is not being charged, because there is no path for the negative plate to move electrons to the positive plate.
The challenge is that it's counter intuitive:
- If you have tried to build a circuit to spark to ground, it's not easy
- Where do I find (x)F capacitors that large for HV.
- How and where is the power coming from that?
If you read Don Smith's comments, he repeatedly talks about "Heavy Duty Capacitor" or "Shoe Boxed Sized Super Capacitors". So now you do a capacitor search, and look and can't find super capacitor at high voltage ranges. Because there is a relationship between capacitor size and voltage of the dialectic. Where are you going to find a 50F capacitor that can handle High voltage.
No such animal
So people say Don is nuts, and it can't be done. But Don's later devices like the Coke Machine build, and his rack build, don't seem to use huge storage capacitors. You would think the larger the device, the need for larger capacitors. I think he stumbled on a way to use ground and capacitors that allow the breaking of engineering spec.
You are not completing the charge of the capacitor with conventional electron flow. Maybe it can withstand more potential (my guess)
So how does it work? Don said a capacitor is a blocking device. We know it is for DC, and AC is passed. I think it's easier to think of the capacitor being plates ( though we know a 50F super capacitor is not). The RF DC pulses (On/Off) are like tiny hammers creating waves. That is imposed on the positive plate. It is part of the ringing bell of the resonant circuit. We know that in resonance we starting freeing electrons because we have radiation, It's magnetic because it can't be shielded. In a capacitive coupling such as a Tesla coil RX/TX you can prove that. The pulsing DC are producing concussion RF waves on the Negative plate. The close proximity of the plates allow amplification by the casimir effect (because the plates are never "charged"), which should be several orders of magnitude. The negative plate starts to vibrate and you can place a transformer to ground. If setup correctly you have to limit the amount of current to the primary by a variable resistor to ground. Being a capacitive couple, HV circuit never knows the difference. It's magnetic amplification.
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