icould see being off a few a few hundred cc but a few liter is hard to mistake the error are so significant stan had to know he was not being truthfull
tad i see your point why you see it is a useless process to go thru and am well aware of all the negative issues you described but as im sure you are aware most of meyers designs were orginated from the learning curve as he experimented he came across all the issue you described plus more and then changed his designs accordingly to compensate as you are now doing but for most people who are unaware of these issue they have to start some where this is a good spot to start and work their way up from to acheive the next level of building/learning
if you put so shrink tubing over the outter tube and rubber stoppers in the inner tubes it will draw in more voltage and amps cause your losing alot of it into the water bath making the static charge gas production will almost double it did on mine
i have the same variac it good the only problem is the fuse holder sucks the fuses are just a hair smaller than the standard fuse once you blow it their a problem to find
i wound the thing a million ways none of them worked as described . not one single alternator made 7 liters a minute the best i ever got out of it was maybe 300 to 600 cc a minute using various tube cells
i was the person who got kevin started with winding alternators and was doing it for a year before that
he using lc resonance to generate the highest voltage which equals the highest potential feild
higher the potential feild the more tension applied to the water molecule
the second signal is to aggitate the water while tension is applied thats the mechanical resonance
the first inductor is in the circuit for a signal filter and is also a capacitor because of the mutual capacitance of the wire this coil creates the step charging by averaging out the voltage peaks and sags caused by the square wave
the second coil is the amp restriction to ground this is what builds up the potential feild because you have this inductor to ground it gives you a 90 degree phase delay
so any power you put in the positive side take 90 degrees of phase to come out to ground
if you keep adding power the voltage in the cell will keep growing for 90 degrees after 90 degrees
it will plane off and stay constant because your addind in voltage at the same rate its leaving the cell
if you turn off the power the voltage and current in the cell will start to decay
this will look like a capacitor charging and discharging signal which is a sawtooth
this process is then repeated at the resonant frequency of the circuit allowing for voltage magnification
the blocking diode just takes the ac created on the secondary during resonance and rectifies it back to dc