Complete information on working SM style device.

[Grumpy]

If anyone builds the tetrahedral device, I'm sure someone can come up with a way to make it work - 

[giantkiller]

A 555 to an irf840 or 3055 then to an ignition coil, microwave can supply a HV driver. Might not be right on but that is a start.

The basis for all this is resonant drive and heterodyning which can give the HV or spikes with the excessive power.
In the heterodyning tests I found 4 watts to a 750 watt amp enough to almost break the house. I saw the amp as a step up transformer of sorts.

But the effect was on the scope, at the 4 watt amp, and at the 750 watt amp.
Now lets say I can go to an even bigger amp?

Any two dishes pointed at each other from a small distance, any tunnel that has an echo, the ball court at Chich'en itz'a in the Mayan Yucatan temples. I believe the later can be heard in space.

Archaeologists have identified seven courts[citation needed] for playing the Mesoamerican ballgame in Chich?n, but the Great Ball Court about 150 meters to the north-west of the Castillo is by far the most impressive. It is the largest ball court in ancient Mesoamerica. It measures 166 by 68 meters (545 by 232 feet). The imposing walls are 12 meters high, and in the center, high up on each of the long walls, are rings carved with intertwining serpents.[8]

Maybe communications? Not just sports or frail worship based on violence.

Each end has a raised "temple" area. A whisper from end can be heard clearly at the other end 500 feet away and through the length and breath of the court. The sound waves are unaffected by wind direction or time of day/night. Archaeologists engaged in the reconstruction noted that the sound transmission became stronger and clearer as they proceeded. In 1931 Leopold Stokowski spent 4 days at the site to determine the acoustic principals that could be applied to an open-air concert theater he was designing. Stokowski failed to learn the secret. To this day it has not been explained

At the base of the high interior walls are slanted benches with sculpted panels of teams of ball players. In one panel, one of the players has been decapitated and from the wound emits seven streams of blood; six become wriggling serpents and the center becomes a winding plant..

Not too bright...

So instead of touting the past or torching the present, take that giant step outside of your minds. For as long as you think like the rest you can't do the best!

Listen up! I can tell you this: That all the answers have been given and they are right in front of your faces. While everybody is waiting for the solution like a DC potential, the recipe you all have been waiting for has been given to all like HV kicks. One just has to wait and collect them.
Isn't this the slickest puzzle/adventure on the planet? And we little humans won't even pick up the bread crumbs that show the path because we want the whole loaf shoved in our faces. It is not just an american problem either.

One of my ongoing suspicions is that if a build is made to exacting standards according to finite control of the vectors then the builder must build using exact geometries and special materials. I believe this over complicates things. There have been many posts from the heavens stating 'Keep it simple'. I could be a simpleton though.

--giantkiller. Unconventional thinking leads to unconventional solutions.

[Grumpy]

By the way,  a spark gap will reduce your pulse rise time to about 1-5 ns - even less if you use a UV field to radiate the gap.  Turn-off time can be greatly reduced with magnetic quenching

So, with a little work, a crappy pulse kicks ass.

[sparks]

@grumpy


     A little lazer action goes along way.

[Grumpy]

an adjacent gap is good and cheap - even my UV heat lamp for reptiles worked OK