Giantkiller moves forward into Full Heterodyning.

[Grumpy]

Why doesn't the bulb light up?

[giantkiller]

All voltage and no current...

A cap can be put in series with the gap. The gap output is not affected. Put a high inductive primary across then cap. The fast charging potential does not pass thru the L but charges up the cap extremely fast. The new energy can be pulled from the low inductive secondary before the next charge up cycle of the stun gun. The spark gap will see no degradation.

The fast collapsing field can be seen by the top and bottom rings/antennas/inductors.

-giantkiller.

[Grumpy]

A cap can be put in series with the gap.  The fast charging potential does not pass thru the L but charges up the cap extremely fast.

Correct.

EDIT:
LF is strong today.

[giantkiller]

A cap can be put in series with the gap.  The fast charging potential does not pass thru the L but charges up the cap extremely fast.

Correct.

EDIT:
LF is strong today.

5khz - 6khz stated by SM, measured by me in the stun gun circuit last year, posted by stun gun innards pages. Couldn't be any closer. What is hiigh speed? The rise and fall times.

--giantkiller.

[Grumpy]

What is hiigh speed? The rise and fall times.

--giantkiller.

Not the rise and fall time.  In-depth review of spark gaps of the day will reveal that their ionization and dionization times were rather slow as was their rate of repetition.  A circuit of the day transmitting at 1 MHz does not mean that the spark gap was operating at this freq.  This is the freq of the excited circuit that was smacked (impulse excitation) by the much lower freq disruptive discharge.  This was the means of the day as no one could create continuous oscillations until a later date.  it's like when you ring a bell over and over - the ringer is at a low freq and the bell is a much higher freq - no, they are not harmonically related at all, don't even go there.  Just as the disruptor circuit is coupled but indepenedent from the generator circuit, the working circuit is coupled but independent.  Like being on different springs but connected by a rope.  Hmm - there are three freqs there too - how quaint.

"Highspeed" is the velocity of the "whatever you call it" that Tesla clocked at something like Pi/2 x C (291,375 km/s) - smokin'!  Wheatstone also clocked a similar velocity of 430,000 km/s (the difference is probably due to the resistances he used) - it is worth look at what he was doing when he did this.