If you want electrical analogies use a better one.
http://amasci.com/emotor/cap1.html

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That is a terrible example. The name 'conductor' was used in place of 'capacitor' which is meaningless to someone wanting to understand how a capacitor works without the knowledge of it also being called a conductor.

Or maybe I am wrong and a conductor is something else and I was getting confused with 'condensor'. Either way, it gave me a headache and I am no more knowledgeable, only less motivated in wanting to learn.
Lay terminology should be used where ever possible in analogies when technical terms has not previously been defined. Introducing undefined technical terminology increases the load on learning, risking overloading the person and them walking away which is what I had to do with yours as I felt like I was going down a rabbit hole.

Thanks anyway.

 

That is a terrible example. The name 'conductor' was used in place of 'capacitor' which is meaningless to someone wanting to understand how a capacitor works without the knowledge of it also being called a conductor.

Or maybe I am wrong and a conductor is something else. Either way, it gave me a headache and I am no more knowledgeable, only less motivated in wanting to learn.

Thanks anyway.

Your headache means your brain is working to replace the bad with good. Yes, you are wrong. The only thing terrible is not being willing to learn.

 

Brains have a limit, like a fuse in a circuit. Overload them and they trigger. Like when a person is in an abusive relationship, they can only take so much bad before their fuse trips and they walk away. Overload someone when they are trying to learn and they will do the same.

Teaching isn't easy, that's why people go to university to learn it. Psychology plays a key part in it.

 

Brains have a limit, like a fuse in a circuit. Overload them and they trigger.

This is electricity 101. If this is popping a fuse then Creating an electromagnetic generator is rocket science that you have no hope to understand. I don't really believe you lack the capability to learn but you do seem to lack the motivation to learn.

 

'No hope' mentality also does not foster a learning mindset.

I will continue trying to learn.

Thanks for your time anyway.

 

'No hope' mentality also does not foster a learning mindset.

I will continue trying to learn.

Thanks for your time anyway.

A little needle applied to the right point is sometimes a good motivator to get moving.

 

More often than not its ineffective. Ask a heroin addict.

 

More often than not its ineffective. Ask a heroin addict.

Excuses for failure, there are a million of them... Everyone here has traveled the same path from the beginning, it's not easy but worth the effort. Give it an honest try at least.

 

Tell that to a refugee.

 

K, dude ... everyone here's trying to help you

 

I look forward to reading answers to my questions.

 

K, dude ... everyone here's trying to help you

I’m not. I am allergic to trolls.

 

Isn't that path back to the battery negative terminal that path though?

Battery(+)___
(-) x x x x x x | Capactor
|____________|

(Ignore the x's, this website doesn't honour consecutive white space input)

If you replaced the capacitor in the above diagram with a light bulb, the light bulb would 'work'. With a capactor instead, will it 'work' by charging up?

Charge will move, typically neg charge seeking a pos home. But then you also have plasma.

 

Is this now valid?

Close the charge switch to charge the capacitor and then open the charge switch, close the fire switch to emit an EMP and then open the fire switch to shut off the system.

 

So, I actually asked this in post 38 and Alec said the battery shouldn't be in series with both the capacitor and coil when the fire switch closes.

Is series another way of saying circuit?

Why shouldn't it be in series?

 

Is this now valid?

Close the charge switch to charge the capacitor and then open the charge switch, close the fire switch to emit an EMP and then open the fire switch to shut off the system.

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Your diagram should look rather like this:

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IMPORTANT: Never actuate both the charge and fire switches at the same time. For this purpose, you could get a DPST switch.

I suggest you download LTSpice. It's not only great for drawing diagrams, but it also lets you perform simulations

 

How come there is a ground bellow the capacitor in your diagram when the circuit ends at the power source?

My computer doesn't work.

 

How come there is a ground bellow the capacitor in your diagram

LTspice (which was used to draw the schematic) needs a reference point (taken as 0 Volts) for its simulations.

 

The "fire" switch can be on either side of the cap, makes no diff.

There will be no "emp" from any of this. The coil, cap, and switch all have internal resistance that will limit amps.

 

The "fire" switch can be on either side of the cap, makes no diff.

That's what I thought, too.

There will be no "emp" from any of this. The coil, cap, and switch all have internal resistance that will limit amps.

It will when I'm using a large capacitor, high amperage wire and switches.