What the Iron Does

Part 2 of The Textbook Behind the VIC. The pulsing transformer read as J. A. Fleming's induction coil, with Don Gabel's LCR readings on a transformer from the Meyer estate: the core multiplying every winding fifteen to twenty-five times, the turns ratio read from the inductances (about five to one, where the 1987 pencil pages give 422.5), the chokes coupled to the rest of the transformer, and Fleming's warning that iron 'is not a constant quantity'.

The turns-ratio figure is an estimate from inductance, assuming both windings see the same core.

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). Charles Steinmetz is a stock voice, because no recording of his is known to survive; it reads only sentences printed in his books. Treat all three as readings, not recordings.

The written tutorial for this film is The Textbook Behind the VIC. The previous film in the series is Choking Coils Can Raise the Voltage.