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ronh1066 wrote: I thought having 12 capacitor banks ment that one was connected to each cathode,

違います

(“chigaimasu” aka “it’s different” or “not so” in Japanese).

How exactly is the power from the capacitors brought to the cathode?

Glad you asked!

The short answer is the twelve capacitors discharge onto the plates which deliver the surge to the electrodes. I’ll get a picture of the plates up soon.

I’m working on a detailed schematic/animation/slide show to put all the pieces together to show the electricity delivery system into the core electrodes. This system is also known the “driver” and is comprised of the power supply, the trigger system, the capacitors, switches and plates. All the pieces of the driver need to be precisely coordinated to dump that charge simultaneously into the electrodes via the plates.

This piece I’m working on will also explain what happens during a “prefire” and where the breakdowns occurred with the trigger system and the switches (resolved) and are now occurring with the spark plugs. It’ll be cool because you’ll see the variables and get a better sense of design possibilities.

The other piece we need is something to show a graph of the readout of a pinch on the oscilloscope – and what that corresponds to in terms of electrical flow across the electrodes.

The animations we have up so far just show what happens when the ideal pulse of electricity has been delivered into the electrodes. So we see that lovely sheath.