One Microsecond

A University of Latvia laboratory builds the first stage of the Voltage Intensifier Circuit, a bifilar transformer and a fast blocking diode feeding a water cell, and watches the collapse pulse on an oscilloscope. From Vanags, Kleperis and Bajars, 2012: the flyback as a current source whose voltage the water decides; about 640 V in deionised water against about 9 V in electrolyte, from the same coil; the cell behaving as a high-Q capacitor for the first microsecond, with the chemistry coming afterwards in the discharge tail; a reverse current behind the diode and what it tells a builder about layout; how to read their efficiency tables, which were all run in strong alkali; and what the bench left out. Set against Meyer's own words from Method For The Production Of A Fuel Gas, Gas Generator Voltage Control Circuit and WO 92/07861.

The paper's figures are reproduced under its Creative Commons Attribution licence (CC BY 3.0), © 2012 Vanags et al., licensee InTech.

About the voices. Two synthetic voices speak, and neither 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 US 4,936,961, US 4,798,661 and WO 92/07861. Treat both as readings, not recordings.

For what the resonant charging chokes add, see Choking Coils Can Raise the Voltage and Twice the Pulse; for how long each grade of water holds a charge, The Leaky Condenser.