Re:The ORIGINAL quartershrinker: D. Travous, 1991 (Score 1)

Bill, I actually heard about the technique from Tesla Coiler Richard Hull, who related the coin crusing work of Jim Goss, a EE at a university (don't remember which one). I lucked into a batch of the big GE caps some years later, and decided to build one myself. After building the unit, I also heard about the work done by Gary Hawkins, and subsequently discussed a number of aspects with him. So I'm at least the 3rd monkey if not the 100th... :^) In the final analysis, there are very few things that are truly new. BTW, the web site is back up on the air.