Choking Coils Can Raise the Voltage

The first film in The Textbook Behind the VIC, a series that reads Stan Meyer's Voltage Intensifier Circuit beside the two great electrical textbooks of the 1890s: J. A. Fleming's The Alternate Current Transformer (1896) and Charles Steinmetz's books on alternating currents and transients. It walks the whole circuit once; the films that follow take one part each. The written tutorial that goes with the series is The Textbook Behind the VIC, in six parts.

About the voices. Three synthetic voices speak, and none is a person. NeuralStan is the archive reading aloud in a stock voice. Stan Meyer is a voice cloned from thirty seconds of the Deer Creek conference tape of 1985; it reads only his own words — from Energy of the Future (raum&zeit, 1990), Method For The Production Of A Fuel Gas, the memo Dual Voltage Resonant "Q", and the New Zealand house meeting of 1989. Charles Steinmetz is a stock voice, because no recording of his is known to survive; it reads only sentences printed in his books, Alternating Current Phenomena (1900) and Transient Electric Phenomena and Oscillations. Treat all three as readings, not recordings.

What the film covers

• The pulsing transformer is an induction coil. Meyer's description matches Fleming's device; Don Gabel's LCR readings on an estate VIC show the iron multiplying every winding about sixteen-fold (part 1).
• The water is a condenser, and a leaky one. Meyer says so himself; Fleming solved the case of a condenser shunted by a resistance; Gabel's rain-water cell holds a charge for about five microseconds (part 2).
• A choke can raise the voltage. Steinmetz: "choking coils, or reactive coils, can be used for raising the voltage." The textbook ceiling is twice the pulse, and the blocking diode holds it (part 3).
• The choke under a blow. Fleming's §8 and Lodge's alternative path explain amp restriction under a sudden pulse (part 4).
• Ring, or dead-beat. Fleming's √(4L/C) test, with the archive's measured values (part 5).
• One frequency only. Fleming's warning, and Meyer's resonance scanning as the answer to it (part 6).

The charging figure in the film is a textbook model — an ideal diode, Gabel's chokes, the 1.52 nF of Meyer's own cavity, and leaks from each water's conductivity — to show the shape of the physics, not to predict a real cell. The frequencies agree with Resonant Action.

A note on the books: the archive's copy filed as Fleming's "Vol. 2: The Utilisation of Induced Currents" is, on its own title page, Volume I, The Induction of Electric Currents, the 1896 new edition. Section and page numbers in the film are Fleming's own.