well i don't really understand that pretty well.. could you explain??
I thought in terms of what is happening... any imbalance is taken to extreme via positive feedback...
what happens is that the higher the voltage is, the faster the voltage raises... since its doing work in separating the charges but this work should sum to zero since the drops can be set to not touch the electrodes... so no work is done so far as the drops fall accelerated into and decelerated out of the hollow can (inducer).... The gravity work happens when its force win the repelling force of the drops approaching the water. So the ions are amplifying the electric field of the collector and when the drops are to be decelerated from the inducer...
In this setup the voltage perform work since the greater the voltage the greater is the force segregating the ions thereto the faster the voltage rate of increase.