Wow! Leave it to luc Well i have no idea how its charging the cap, very interesting. I do have my own opinions about why the magnets are necessary. I dont think the energy is coming from the magnets. And i dont think it has to do with the inductance, but obviously inductance is important for the resonant condition. I think it has to do with setting the flux circulating in the core back to zero after the pulse is shut off. Thats why ive never been the biggest supporter of using toroids for dc applications, the mags are required to collapse the field all the way, and i think you have used the mags to tuned it to the sweet spot of the core. I suspect that the higher the voltage on the caps, the more out of tune it will become. I think it should be possible to do the same thing by using a flyback core and adjusting the core gap. But you found a way to tune the toroid so apparently that works too. Cant wait to see where this one goes, great work!
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