Smith coke machine conclusions

He used a standard full wave bridge rectifier. And he reversed the 1. Diode to cover up the simplicity of it. It is impossible to extract energy from the system while producing an electron dam without the electron damn you have no usable workable energy to work with by reversing the single diode back to a full wave bridge rectifier you have an electron dam built by the transformer and a cushion of high voltage differential this will create the electron dam as well as extract energy from the Earth ground potential’s if so desired
The differential of the voltage applied to the dumping capacitor determines the speed of the discharge that is to say you can safely put 8000 V into a 400 V capacitor as long as it is being depleted quicker than it is being recharged