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[darkspeed]

I believe my current build randomly produces this shockwave. In 2 minutes of runtime an eclipse occurs from applying 2 frequencies of 2 very short pulses each with a delay between the 2 signals and Wham! The meters go haywire, controller shuts down, and the amperage is below 1ma. I am now trying to apply capture or containment before it crashes each test. Nothing is burnt up.
I have a USB based storage scope attached to a pc. It crashes sooner because of the cheaper USB cable. I find things out that disable progress as I build coils that produce effects. The effort is to get the effects into a usable form. Nothing new there. I am trying to get a static picture of the runtime event.

I would follow a path of passive device build if I had the analog time and the better analog equipment. But I can say this and that is the USB setup is a firewall for safety. No headaches or crying dogs yet.

So now I have 3 things to try when I get back from vacation.
An iron loop in parallel, iron wire/loops in series with the copper loops, and a capture circuit while still maintaining Mobius type configurations with diodes and caps hooked in.

--giantkiller.

Have you looked at a wideband current monitor connected to your scope to capture your event
check this out, its what is used to capture the event on a tesla coil discharge.

[BEP]

You stop it so that you can restart it again.

If you do not cause the shock wave then none of it matters any way.

From what I could tell it continues on its own, once found.

I don't think we start it. I think we just tune into it.

I'll be glad when I can have some bench time 

[giantkiller]

From what I could tell it continues on its own, once found.

I don't think we start it. I think we just tune into it.

I'll be glad when I can have some bench time 

Well that made me think. Are the bursts of kicks I see bursts because as the incoming energy wants to dynamically drive the coil that I am trying to statically drive the coil? Sounds like I am seeing bursts because I clamp the operation. Hence the gaps in the signal are my operation or my setup cannot vary to meet the external changes needed to stream continuously. In short varying impedance needs to happen like self regulating or self tuning. So I could now view this from the opposite side saying that I inhibit the incoming stream.

I will get a price on the Pearson current monitors and order one. They even show bias notes.

--giantkiller. I'll be back next Thursday to continue.

[EMdevices]

@BEP,
is this the OTPU without legs?   I never considered the fact that the 2 magnets are aligned differently, good observation, so obvious too.
EM

[Grumpy]

So the three frequencies combine to create a pulse of amplitude great enough to saturate the system and for a nanosecond everything stops , resulting in a shockwave, then restarts just as fast. new way to spark gap without the spark gap

yes