You see, you're already making progress. What you stated.
1. Voltage potential doesn't appear until an certain area on the light is touched.
2. You are learning that the fuel cell is possibly missing something. For Example, when you alter the lamp you cause a potential to form on both electrodes of the lamp, The lamp lights.
Perhaps the potential wants to appear across the water and is unstable, Perhaps the water may be missing something. If you touch the water is it then possible for the voltage to appear across both terminals just as it did across the lamp.
Did stan not draw a confusing 0 Ground in his schematics that is commonly overlooked, Just as the Isolated ground has been overlooked.
In many of stans drawings there is no Choke Isolated ground.
In many of stans drawings there is no Water isolated ground.
When you stack the drawings, Both the water isolated ground, and choke isolated ground appears where they need to be. There is more to this than meets the eye.
This was the point I got confused, when I had the same thing going on. Touching the FL in parallel with the WFC the light was brighter too. Looks like there's a electrical leak/short (no capacitance) in the WFC cell or something.
@Donald,
When I put my finger in the middle of the FL the FL is lit from + to -, when not touched the middle part of the FL was not lit!
A little of center to the + and only from + to my finger is lit, the same is for - to my finger.
Also the WFC/FL signal could be measured without connecting my probe to a wire at the WFC/FL to get readings. (holding it in front of the glass bottle)
br,
Webmug
