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Amp Leakage

Meyer drew the right graph. He put current on the wrong axis, had no name for the curve, and spent fifteen years pushing it to the right. This is what an impedance meter sees looking into his water capacitor, and what the interface at the electrode is actually doing.

The archive's own copy, 13 September 2026 39 MB

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What was shown

Meyer's whole method rests on one sentence in Method For The Production Of A Fuel Gas: the water is processed as a dielectric medium in an electrical resonant circuit. Not an electrolyte. A dielectric. And so the object of the circuit, in his words, is to prevent electron flow through the circuit.

He drew the graph that governs that. It is Figure 8 of the patent: applied voltage potential up the page, amp leakage along the bottom, a breakdown point marked L1, and then a staircase of measures — pulsing, excitor isolation, an inline resistor, a resistive excitor plate, a resonant cavity — each one pushing the onset further right.

That is a Tafel plot with the axes swapped. He had no name for it, and no name for the thing that makes the curve, which is the interface three tenths of a nanometre thick where the metal meets the water.

The capacitor he did not know was there

The cell the archive records him building is a half-inch rod inside a three-quarter-inch tube, three inches long.
geometric capacitance, Coaxial cell capacitance 837.5 pF
double layer at the two electrodes 365 µF
ratio 435,639 ×
all three in series, which is how they sit 837.5 pF

That last row is the surprise, and it is entirely in Meyer's favour. Capacitors in series are dominated by the smallest, so the double layer — hundreds of thousands of times the larger — changes the cell's capacitance by two ten-thousandths of one per cent. His formula was right. The resonant frequency he tuned for was right.

What the double layer decides is not the capacitance. It is where the voltage sits, and when current starts to flow.

Capacitor or resistor? The water decides

Between two corner frequencies the cell is neither plate nor dielectric — it is a resistor, and its value is the water's.

water solution resistance geometric corner
ultrapure, 0.055 µS/cm 154 kΩ 1.23 kHz
distilled, standing, 1 µS/cm 8.5 kΩ 22.4 kHz
tap, 500 µS/cm 16.9 Ω 11.2 MHz

At one kilohertz in standing distilled water the cell measures 8,460 Ω at a phase angle of −2.6°. That is a resistor. Meyer drove between one and ten kilohertz.

Step charging needs water purer than anyone keeps

Run Step charging accumulation on his own cell, ten pulses of a hundred volts a hundred microseconds apart:

water RC time constant after ten pulses
ultrapure 129 µs 185 V
distilled, standing 7 µs 100 V — nothing stacks
tap 0.03 µs 100 V — nothing stacks

Against an ideal of 1,000 V. Step charging is real, and it needs the charge to outlive the gap between pulses. Only ultrapure water does that, and it does not stay ultrapure once electrodes are in it.

What he was trying to make infinite

The Randles circuit names four things. Meyer had a word for one of them.

element what it is Meyer's word
R_s the water's own resistance "residual conductivity"
C_dl the double layer —
R_ct resistance to electron transfer "amp leakage"
Z_W diffusion of the products —

Below 1.23 V the reaction cannot proceed at all, whatever the kinetics. Above it, current rises one decade every 58 millivolts and nothing turns that off. Meyer's own bench table gives the onset he measured: 2.5 V on constant DC, 8.5 V with a resistor in the cathode lead, and against a stainless sandwich, in his own hand, "Infinity!"

Not yet ported

The archive's matrix engine holds the cell capacitance, the leak resistance, the Cole-Cole permittivity and the step-charge staircase. It does not yet hold a Randles page, a Nyquist plot or a Bode plot; the older VIC Matrix tool does, and porting it is outstanding work. The two charts in this film were computed for it from the engine's own constants, and the script is in the repository beside the film.

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