WFC VIC

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Wow they are expensive! I'd wait to find another Source before buying something like that. I think max is machining them which is much more expensive

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That is a rip,  I contacted a 3d printing company and they wanted about the same amount of money.

The good news is Russ Gries is selling them with the end caps
for 25$. It's where I got mine from.

 Get on his forums and send him a pm to see if he has any left.

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Thanks for the tip.
I sought some of the bobbins before and was told they didn't have any left.
I also checked the stansdream site, and the prices on the bobbins have come down a little - I'll keep emailing them!
Now I need a core and some wire........

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I found a good source for wire....I bought 1 pound heavy insulated 30AWG wire for 24$ at oemwire.com.

As for the core, still working on that one...Most ferrite core companies require a minimum order which is quite high so we need to get a bunch of people buying, but even more important is we need to find the right core material.

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Can you guys tell me what kind of caps are those ?polyester,ceramic?does it mater the type?see att

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I have seen some Meyer documentation about the VIC coil that said it was bifilar wound.  Isn't that a twisted pair of wires winding a coil to bottle in mag energy, stopping the generation of the field about the coil?  I think the Tesla coil has some bifilar windings, for instance.  From what I see here, coils look standard, single wire wrapped.  Was that  a different version or product of his I happened to be looking at a diagram of?

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Sampajo,

Stan had many different designs, bifilar coils was one of them. The 5 coil Vic on two U cores is what you see most people try to replicate because that's what Don found at the estate and documented. We have the most information about it.

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Bifilar winding is what you need when you want maximum coupling, to have two exactly equal voltages across the two coils or 0 ac volts between their end points... its same as a common mode choke...

The thing is that he applies a potential only... not only a difference of potential. This creates the resonant action... pretty much like the steam resonator but taken steps further...