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With these chokes, this cell and this drive, where does the loop ring, what does the drive draw, and does the cell step-charge?

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The parts

The water capacitor, or a plain capacitor standing in for one.

What is in the cell. Sets the permittivity and, through its dissolved solids, the leak.

The choke on the positive side, through which the cell charges.

What the charging choke is wound on. Needed unless the choke is recorded with its inductance.

The choke on the return side.

What the blocking choke is wound on.

Between the drive and the chokes, if there is one. The drive amplitude is stepped up through it.

The drive

kHz

The pulse frequency the loop is driven at.

V

The peak voltage applied across the loop — after the transformer, if there is one.

%

How much of each pulse period the drive is on.

Hz

The slow gate switching the pulse train on and off.

%

How much of each gate period the pulses are let through.

Separate, or on one core with fields aiding or opposing.

How much of one choke's flux threads the other. Zero for separate cores.

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