yes electrotek he needed to design for every type of aplication... i agree... but not sure if was not just the case to miniaturize and apply... anyway..
the exciter idea to get the connection 180 apart is good..i also though of that...and tried..this is a technic for winding toroidal inductors with the minimum capacitance possible ..you had the right feeling..
i´m not sure how he had his cells connected..a picture for me is almost not worth copying...
the problem you had is probably related to the water being tap water.. that made you see it...
i believe the cells could also be connected antiparallels... so all cells will see the same potential...
i constructed the 11 cell together with very good machinists and i tell you i would try putting 12 cells into it... because the probability of one going wrong in the machining process is high... luckly mine was done with perfection... maybe meyer had a 1 cell that was out of order... who knows..
i have another idea to simply impeed the water channel between the positive and negative electrode.. this should be enough to impeed the water leaking current.. .a piece of rubber..
i noticed that in one experiment i did with 4 cells in series and only the first would come some bubbles out... i atributed this to the high voltage present... its the only thing strange i saw with 40 50kv..
I only said what I said to help you learn from my experience if you choose not to that is totally up to you. I just tried to point out to you that water is part of the circuit in the form of resistance in the isolated side of the VIC transformer and the current will follow the path of least resistance.
This is another attempt to tell the same story visually as I know English is not your primary language.
This underscore dash ___ represents the space inside of a resonant cavity and the water's resistance is directly related to this distance.
For 11 resonant cavities it would give you a total of this distance when they are all wired up in series
_________________________________________ . Now the space between adjacent resonant cavities in the exciter array is equal to this
_______________________ . Now since the water's resistance is directly tied to the distance it has to travel which of the two lines will give you the least amount of resistance? The line representing the distance between adjacent resonant cavities correct? Since current will take the path of least resistance the current needed to charge the capacitors will only be going to resonant cavities numbers 1 and 11 in the circular design if they are all hooked up in series and the positive in on number 1 and the negative in on number 11. Can you see what I am talking about now?
Meyer's solution to this problem was to disconnect one of the resonant cavities thus providing more physical distance between the positive and negative connected resonant cavities and my solution was to rewire the series array so that the positive and negative connected resonant cavities were 180 degrees apart from one another. Now if you don't want my help just say so as I have no problems with you telling me, "Thanks Ed for the donation but I will take it from here." Trust me it won't come as a surprise to me if that is your decision and know that I will honor it.
Shalom,
TGS