About the arcing.... there is no way arcing will occur between the WFC gap when filed with water.
this is what i am talkign about...from the patent i referenced i call it arcing also.....it is not a plasma arc but a leap of current across a gap.....technically that is arcing.
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and from what i am understanding now is that as you apply the positive voltage to one plate it will begin to pull a negative charge from the opposing plate from the ground....if positive amplitude is continually increased then it would arc......the positive voltage amplitude is to be raised just enough to almost cause arcing.
it works like lightning...negative reaches out ot meet positive....this is why stan has the positive potential seperate from the negative potential in the graph below....it occurs just like this........this is what i have noticed how it works when i bring it to the point of shorting out.....anything beyond what i have drwan would be shorting it out and current would arc over.
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this is why in the later methods the bifilar winding will cuase the pulses from both sides of the tubes.
if you can just play around with this earlier patent it will yield a very good understanding of hte water splitting process.
and this is what i was talking about when i said bringing it almost to the point of arcing.....
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i think stan realized that voltage did have the ability to split water and this patent was his realization that there was a method around faraday......now all he ahd to do was remove the resistor that was holding current back and replace it with a magnetic field......and if you do what i have tried and explained step by step in the beginning of this thread you will also realize the water does not become hot or filled with gunk as it would normally.......this is the beginning concept.