I believe stan managed the time constant around the circuit to develop electrical stress of short duration and high intensity to do exactly what he said break the molecule apart.
The mystery of the frequency doubling in the vic coil will be revealed now:
Its well known to all that an inductor when connected to a source develops an exactly opposite polarity of that of the source at the instant it is contacted to the source. This mean that at this instant zero current flow and the voltage is maximum across the inductor. This voltage is a consequence of and infinitely small amount of current changing infinitely abruptly in time. As time goes this rate of change becomes lower and so a current start to raise according to differential of voltage between inductor and source. The time constant of the LR circuit is the time it takes for this voltage to change to 0 and current goes to maximum.
Remember now that stan said that he only used potential, no "current" but to develop potential some current may however flow.
The time constant of a LR circuit is =L/R
Stan mentioned the resistive values of the coils because he wanted to highlight this.
Coming back to the time varying current at the inductor, when it reaches the max current its induced back emf is 0 so its fully charged with magnetism. If the source is disconnected this field will collapse.
Now what is field collapse?
When you apply a dc voltage to a coil a current start to flow varying with time up to a point where its maximum, during this increase in magnetic field you can imagine at first the magnetic field lines starting in the middle of the coil than starting to get bigger and bigger...
The field collapses is when you get the magnetic field decreased all in once.
I explained first that an inductor creates an opposite voltage as it is connected to a dc source and this decay with time following the time constant allowing current to start to flow. Did you noticed that as the magnetic field increase this voltage decrease with time?
Ok
Now if the coil is disconnected to the source having a resistor across it, the magnetic field should reduce in time and it now must create voltage of reversed polarity however theory says that the magnetic polarity won't flip.
For those who might didn't grasp it.
The frequency doubles, in stan design because when the pulse is on, the secondary sends a pulse to the thru coils, and when the pulse is off, the field collapses and the chokes apply another pulse to the cell of the same polarity.
The cell is a discontinuity capacitance.
The amp restriction is evident now.
