Yeah well i'm not surprised those big capacitors screw up your waveform in khz range , extra capacitores were never recommended or mentionned in the meyers papers , i would try to stay as close as possible to the papers and never deviate .
What was the rating of your bifilar coils coating , what was the build normal or heavy ? or maybe extra heavy ? Good coating is important , eclipsed also had his precious coil burn up on him after he spent the whole day winding it.
3kv per mi ( 1/1000th of an inch ) is what most coatings are rated for. Of course , if your hookup is like crux neogen or kevin west the voltage difference is increased dramatically , thats why Kevin west has his coils in sectionnal spools , otherwise his coils could spark . The voltage is so high that it would be over the breakdown of the same positive coil wire , but the resistance of the coating is about a billion times that of going that extra 3 inches to get to that spot thought the wire so it dooesnt really count as a spark . But if you got that negative choke 62 wound bifilar right next to your positive choke its a different story...
So what do you mean by unipolar pulse transformer ? your transfo sends impulses to the negative and positive rail and *dumps it into both inductors* ?
I was actually gonna try to do this on purpose , and equally split the voltage with the secondary , but i will try both .
So how did the high voltage translate into gas production ? did you get nice production ?