by coffeyw » Fri Apr 20, 2007 5:32 pm
hkyle,
Look at this modified depicting the bifilar windings in color. The two electrodes "do not" make up the controversial capacitor plates. The capacitor is in fact made by using the sheer mass of two objects. One of those objects is ground. The other is the container of water.
For the purposes of imagining or picturing the resonant circuitry embodied in the VIC, you must picture TX4 & TX5 as "one wire" making "one inductor coil". One end of this inductor coil is connected to ground, the other end is attached to a container of water. (Not much different than a radio transmitter with one wire connected to ground, and one wire attached to an antenna.) So, you need to picture the earth as one plate of the capacitor, and the container of water as the other plate of the capacitor. When you connect both leads of an inductor to both leads of a capacitor, you then have a resonant tank circuit. To sum this up, the container of water, the ground, and TX4/TX5 act together to form a resonant tank circuit.
The bifilar coil that is embodied by TX4/TX5 is also responsible for creating the high voltage that Stan talks about, and the purpose of this high voltage is to strip off the electrons that create the strong molecular bonds in the water (ionization), which then makes it easy for a small voltage (applied between the electrodes) to break the weakened molecular bonds of the water molecules. Another way of saying this is, "TX4/TX5 work together to suck electrons out of the water and pump those electrons to the ground connection. At this point we have a bunch of water molecules made up of atoms that have lost their bonds, and are now ready to fall apart, so let's use coil TX2 with a diode to make some DC voltage to create a voltage differential across the electrodes in order to break the weakened water molecules.
You'll also want to look at Meyer's and do a full document search for the word "bifilar".
Concerning Bob's method of winding his transformer, .
coffeyw