So what is the gain mechanism, the High-Q multiplier and what is creating the "spikes"?
My personal supposition is that the gain mechanism is due to parametric variation inside the iron wire. Permeable iron will absorb a certain amount of magnetic flux from a nearby resonating coil, lets assume an iron core of 10mH storing 1a of flux, totaling 0.005 joules. When the iron wire is pulsed, current flows inside orthogonally, which decreases the permeability of the iron. At peak current lets say the inductance is only 1mh, which is only able to store 0.0005 joules of magnetic flux. The remaining 0.0045 joules are 'ejected' from the iron core. We can then deduce watts from joules-per-second. If these permeability-altering pulses occur 1000 times per sec, then we arrive at (0.0045 joules * 1000hz) / 1 sec = 4.5 watts. Rather than pushing/pulling against a ferromagnetic core, we're making the core 'disappear' by saturating it. This takes energy, but the energy required to induce the change no longer correlates with the energy leaving the transformer. And most of the energy required to induce the parametric change can be recovered afterward. Cause and effect are 'decoupled' from each-other. Energy production by parametric variation is mathematically analogous to changing the spring constant of a spring as it is being compressed/expanded, or changing the mass of an object as it is being lifted/dropped. It makes sense on paper and works in most circuit simulators, but whether it work in practice is yet-to-be-seen..
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