When you turn the wall switch on the light bulb will emit heat as it restricts the amp flow from the utility pole. The wires connecting normal household lighting and other electronic devices is also called conductors, we just use the term utility wire.
The point being made to this is that when you turn the light on current will flow threw the conductor to its source, where the source is where energy is released in the form of heat. The source is always the most resistant part of the circuit.
Take the headlights on your car for example, if you was to remove the lights from your car and short circuit it with a pair of plairs the wires would either Blow or the battery would blow. The conductor wires would become the most resistant part of the circuit. Never arc a car batteries terminals, my grandpa almost lost his eyesight when a car battery exploded in his face from arcing the terminals, he was rushed to the hospital.
Point being made that energy finds its way to the most resistance component of the circuit in the form of heat, light or some other kinetic energy source, and it finds its way to the most resistance part of the circuit threw conductors. without conductors the energy can not reach its resistance target.
Now that you understand that energy flows threw conductors to try to find its way to the most resistant part of the circuit we can applie this to the water fuel cell. Take a light and place it between the wfc and the car battery, you'll notice the light will shine and no hydrogen will be emitted from the fuel cell. Also don't forget that you're using conductors to make these connections.
why does the fuel cell allow the light to light but not emit hydrogen? well The fuel cells resistance in the circuit is not great as the resistance of the light, so the light wins the resistive war and the fuel cell has to surrender into being a conductor, if you was to remove the light and wire the conductive wires together in that very spot then you would see hydrogen because the fuel cell would become the most resistive part of the circuit.
Now that you understand that by placing a light in series with the fuel cell this will cause the light to light and the fuel cell to become a conductor just like the wires used to connect the components. Now that you understand that the light is a resistor it is good to look at how chokes work. Chokes restrict current!
When you apply power to a choke, or coil of wire you're simply charging up the magnetic core or field around the choke. When this field is at its strongest the choke is restricting the most amount of current flow. Also when the maximum amount of current is being restricted by the choke the choke has its maximum magnetic charge. When a choke restricts amps it is acting as a resistor. Due to the previouse test, when a choke is being pulsed and restricting amp flow we now understand that the water fuel cell is a conductor just like the conductive wires making the connections.
What happens when the chokes are discharging? well the polarity of the transformer is not seriesed up with the Collapsing of the chokes, meaning this is where most people fail in getting the vic to work. In the dave lawton circuit dave would pulse the chokes then add a crowbar diode, this diode would allow the chokes to make connection to the cell on its pulse off time.. Unfortanitely there is no crowbar in the meyers VIC circuit so the VIC transformer must act as a crowbar. Buy simply pulsing the transformer you will not see this crowbar action take effect in the transformer.
you have to pulse the chokes, and before the chokes collapse you must add another pulse of the same polarity, this is where it gets confusing. More on this later, i just gotta run, darn.
