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by DakotaSIG on Fri Apr 2nd, 2004 at 08:47:24 PM MST
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Yeah, I don't see how that would work as drawn either.
I haven't built one of these, but the way I understand them to work is to connect one side of the capacitor to the charge collector wire and the other side of the capacitor goes to ground. The spark plug, coil, and battery are all hooked in series and then placed in parallel with the capacitor. The spark plug gap is adjusted to limit the voltage on the capacitor so it doesn't break down. When the spark plug breaks down, the charge in the capacitor flows through the arc into the coil. The coil is only acting as an inductor not a transformer. The coil provides a place for the current pulse to go until it can be absorbed by the battery. No connection is made to the coil secondary.
Hopefully, somebody here has built one of these and can explain it better.
BTW, I think this was originally a Tesla idea (radiant energy), so look for a reference to Tesla patents.
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