calculation · Voltage Intensifier Circuit · computed
VIC design session v35: best candidate (Q=26.8, 303.9kHz)
Sweep — Abandon the phantom 200nF sizing: sweep L up toward ~7.4mH (the value that lands f_r=50kHz on the real 1.37nF cell) to finally pull resonance into the 1-100kHz band, holding low-turn heavy gauge for coil Q.
- Cell — 18mm rod in 34.0mm tube × 25mm, 8 cell(s) parallel → C_eff = 1.37nF, bulk water R = 10389Ω.
- Water/electrodes (Randles) — 2ppm Na+ @ 25°C, surface ×1 → λ_D 53nm, C_dl 97.0µF, cell series R 14.1Ω, displacement current 96.5%, breakdown margin ×1000+.
- Vapor-film discharge (CGDE onset, 321V across 0.1mm film) — regime constants-out-of-range, film Paschen 719V, 128 Td — INSIDE the 3-6 eV cold-chemistry window.
- Per-molecule (series micro-capacitor chain) — 29.63M molecules across 8.00mm → 10.84 µV/molecule (polarization (µV band)).
- Chokes — 2 × 0.0001H (40 turns, AWG 18, 5m wire, AC R 0.1Ω each).
- At resonance f_r = 303.89kHz — Xl = 382Ω, Xc = 382Ω, tank Q = 26.8, coil Q = 1773.1.
- Cell voltage 321V from 12V drive (×26.8), series current 840.9mA.
- VIOLATIONS — resonance 303.9kHz outside practical 1-100kHz band
- Score 0.274.
Basis
- Confidence
- 0.70
- Method
- townsend-v5
- Recorded
- Published
- 30 Aug 2026
- Device
- Voltage Intensifier Circuit
- Component
- choke
- Source Ref
- design session v35
- Notebook Id
- 1439
design-loop Q resonance