calculation · Voltage Intensifier Circuit · computed
VIC design session v106: best candidate (Q=8.4, 99.8kHz)
Sweep — Drive V below 100V with low duty to walk vapor-film Td into 80-250 window while holding Faradaic leakage <10mA; higher-L AWG24 chokes pull f_r toward 55-75kHz for magnification.
- Cell — 12mm rod in 16.4mm tube × 100mm, 1 cell(s) parallel → C_eff = 1.41nF, bulk water R = 10206Ω.
- Water/electrodes (Randles) — 2ppm Na+ @ 25°C, surface ×1 → λ_D 53nm, C_dl 28.6µF, cell series R 126.5Ω, displacement current 89.9%, breakdown margin ×175.
- Fig-8 voltammetry (4,798,661) — τ_EDL 291402.2µs (29093.9 carrier cycles to charge), Faradaic leakage at peak 163.8mA (leak score 0.39 — keep amp leakage inhibited while voltage climbs the ladder).
- Vapor-film discharge (CGDE onset, 753V across 0.1mm film) — regime townsend-avalanche, film Paschen 719V, 300 Td.
- Per-molecule (series micro-capacitor chain) — 8.15M molecules across 2.20mm → 92.36 µV/molecule (polarization (µV band)).
- Chokes — 2 × 0.0009H (520 turns, AWG 22, 62m wire, AC R 4.3Ω each).
- At resonance f_r = 99.84kHz — Xl = 1129Ω, Xc = 1129Ω, tank Q = 8.4, coil Q = 132.3.
- Cell voltage 753V from 90V drive (×8.4). Tank current 0.67A circulating (CW upper bound — rate wire/switch for this); average input 13mA at 2% duty.
- No hard violations (band, wire length, dielectric). Average current is scored, not gated.
- Score 0.426.
Basis
- Confidence
- 0.70
- Method
- townsend-v5
- Recorded
- Published
- 30 Aug 2026
- Device
- Voltage Intensifier Circuit
- Component
- choke
- Source Ref
- design session v106
- Notebook Id
- 1604
design-loop Q resonance